The Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ) is a new method for assessing cognitive representations of illness. The IPQ is a theoretically derived measure comprising five scales that provides information about the five components that have been found to underlie the cognitive representation of illness. The five scales assess identity the symptoms the patient associates with the illness, cause pe...

‎We consider Albeverio's linear representations of the braid groups $B_3$ and $B_4$‎. ‎We specialize the indeterminates used in defining these representations to non zero complex numbers‎. ‎We then consider the tensor products of the representations of $B_3$ and the tensor products of those of $B_4$‎. ‎We then determine necessary and sufficient conditions that guarantee the irreducibility of th...

BACKGROUND The Common Sense Model (CSM) of illness representations was used in the current study to examine the relative contribution of illness perceptions and coping strategies in explaining adjustment to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). METHODS Participants were 80 adults consecutively attending an outpatients' clinic with a diagnosis of either Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis. Respo...

This paper investigates the role of illness representations in older women's utilization of cancer screening. Older women's own beliefs, or illness representations, of cancer and cancer screening in relation to breast cancer and cervical cancer were explored using relatively unstructured, face-to-face interviews. Twenty women aged between 45 and 70 were interviewed, half of whom were regular sc...

We complete the Wilf classification of signed patterns of length 5 for both signed permutations and signed involutions. New general equivalences of patterns are given which prove Jaggard’s conjectures concerning involutions in the symmetric group avoiding certain patterns of length 5 and 6. In this way, we also complete the Wilf classification of S5, S6, and S7 for both permutations and involut...

BACKGROUND Abnormal illness behaviour by proxy (also known as factitious illness by proxy or Munchhausen syndrome by proxy) is a type of child maltreatment, the origins of which are poorly understood. AIMS To describe attachment representations in a cohort of mothers demonstrating abnormal illness behaviour by proxy. METHOD Sixty-seven mothers who had shown this behaviour took part in a sem...

Evidence has accumulated to show that schizophrenia is characterized by lexical-semantic difficulties; however, questions remain about whether schizophrenics have problems in accessing intact representations or a loss of the representations themselves. Both access and storage types of disorder have been reported and it has been speculated that this may reflect a transition from the former to la...

Migraine is a common, debilitating and costly disorder. Yet help-seeking for and rates of diagnosis of migraine are low. Drawing on ethnographic observations of pharmaceutical marketing practices at professional headache conferences and a content analysis of migraine advertising, principally in the USA, this paper demonstrates: (1) that the pharmaceutical industry directs its marketing of migra...

This paper presents a revised version of the Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R), a recently developed and widely used quantitative measure of the five components of illness representations in Leventhal’s self-regulatory model. The revised version stemmed from a need to deal with minor psychometric problems with two subscales, and to include additional subscales, assessing cyclical timelin...

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