Purpose: This descriptive study investigated the effects of chronic illness adaptation on healthy lifestyle behaviours patients in internal services.
 Materials and Methods: The research was conducted with 104 inpatients at Bingöl State Hospital. No sampling method used study. A information form utilised to record patients’ sociodemographic characteristics. Adaptation Chronic Illness Scale...

BACKGROUND Children with chronic physical illness are significantly more likely to develop common psychiatric symptoms than otherwise healthy children. These children therefore warrant effective integrated healthcare yet it is not established whether the known, effective, psychological treatments for symptoms of common childhood mental health disorders work in children with chronic physical ill...

This article offers national estimates of the proportions of hospital inpatient cases and cost for adult, nonmaternal patients who have multiple chronic conditions. The authors employ a refined classification of chronic versus acute conditions, collapsed to no more than one condition per distinct category of condition. The number of different chronic conditions provides a simple measure of comp...

Taking as its point of departure Bury's (1982) concept of chronic illness as biographical disruption, this paper provides a critical assessment of its fortunes since that time. Having `rescued' the concept from recent postmodern and disability critiques, the paper provides a series of further reflections on its strengths and weaknesses, including the notion of `normal illness'; the importance o...

Ankylosing spondylitis is a chronic illness affecting the spine/pelvic limb joints and sacroiliac, resulting in ankylosis deformity of spine. Hip can be affected on both sides, making them more susceptible prone to significant injury than other joints. Even though novel biological therapies have drastically altered management this illness, surgical intervention still necessary some cases. To ev...

BACKGROUND An increasing number of people suffer from chronic illness. Processes exist to provide better chronic illness care and yet for the most part, they are not used. OBJECTIVE To examine the change in use of commonly recommended chronic illness care management processes (CMPs) in large medical groups between 2000 and 2006 and the factors associated with the change. DESIGN AND MEASURES...

As chronic illness takes its rightful place as an imperative for planners and policy makers globally, the obligation to provide appropriate self-care management support and promote optimal health among the chronically ill is attracting considerable attention. A generation of insider research into the chronic illness experience has yielded powerful evidence of the critical importance of communic...