What people believe about their illness may affect how they cope with it. It has been suggested that such beliefs may be commonly held within society. This cross-sectional investigation examined the cardiac beliefs and misconceptions among cardiac patients and people with chronic illness. Participants with a noncardiac chronic illness hold similar cardiac misconceptions to people with heart dis...

Chronic illness is a term applied to a broad range of diseases that vary greatly both in their essential characteristics and the ways in which they affect the family system and its adaptive functioning. To understand the most critical ways a chronic disease affects not only the family system as a whole but also the individual family members, one must consider the key characteristics of both the...

Department of General Practice, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA. Bronwyn M Veale, PhD, FRACGP, FAFPHM Adjunct, Senior Lecturer. Reprints will not be available from the author. Correspondence: Dr Bronwyn M Veale, 3 Pages Road, Mitcham, SA 5062. [email protected] The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025-729X 1 September 2003 179 5 247-249 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2003 www.mja.c...

The expanding number of Americans living with chronic illness necessitates educating future physicians about chronic illness care. Weill Cornell Medical College's Chronic Illness Care in the Home Setting Program (CIC-HSP), a mandatory part of the primary care clerkship, exposes medical students to persons with chronic illness via a half day of house calls with a geriatrics team. The investigato...

OBJECTIVES This study examined whether levels of chronic illness predict enhanced feelings of loneliness in older adulthood. In addition, it investigated whether engagement in health-related self-protection (e.g., positive reappraisals), but not in health engagement control strategies (e.g., investment of time and effort), would buffer the adverse effect of chronic illness on older adults' feel...

BACKGROUND This paper aimed to investigate associations between major depressive episode (MDE) and chronic illness, disability, self-perceived health and number of sick-days among adolescents and young adults in the general population. METHODS The Finnish Health Care Survey 1996 was a cross-sectional nationwide epidemiological study. A random sample of 509 adolescents and 433 young adults was...