INTRODUCTION Self-regulatory theory explains how patients' illness representations influence self-management behavior. The aim of this study was to examine the changes that occur in disease perceptions after 6 years in hemodialysis patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 81 clinically stable patients (53.6% males, meanage 54 ±12.54 years, mean hemoglobin level 11 ±1.52 g/dl, mean Kt/V 1.49 ...

OBJECTIVE Chronic tinnitus can severely impair a person's quality of life. The degree of impairment, however, is not closely related to tinnitus loudness. Applying the common sense model (CSM) of self-regulation of health and illness, this study investigated to what extent psychological factors, i.e. illness representations and positive/negative self-instructions, are associated with the degree...

Illness Perceptions in Noncardiac Chest Pain – A Brief Psychological Intervention Background: Noncardiac chest pain is a frequent condition that is likely to develop a chronic course. Simply reassuring patients about nonpathological diagnostic test results has proved to be insufficient to effectively reduce dysfunctional illness representations and worry. The aim of the study was to develop a b...

BACKGROUND Interest in self-care haemodialysis (HD) has increased because it improves patients'clinical and quality-of-life outcomes. Patients who undertake self-management for haemodialysis may hold illness beliefs differently to those choosing institutional care at the time of making the modality choice or moulded by their illness and dialysis treatment experience. Illness perceptions amongst...

BACKGROUND How people present symptoms to health services may influence the care they subsequently receive. Leventhal's Commonsense Model of Self-Regulation (CS-SRM) posits that individuals develop cognitive illness representations elaborated around five main components (identity, timeline, cause, consequences, and cure/control), coherence, and emotional representations. AIM To examine whethe...

Several models have been proposed to conceptualize psychological representations of health, illness, and bodily sensations. These models differ as to the cognitive and affective components they include, whether they study the interaction of these components, and whether associations between psychological representations of bodily states and affective and behavioral reactions to these representa...

Health beliefs, and especially illness representations, have been widely used to understand clinical outcomes psychosocial adjustment in people with physical diseases. However, this area of research has under-explored the field mental health, few studies that conducted very different methods. Therefore, aim our study was identify tools methods evaluate representations psychiatry. To end, a mini...