Illness perception in diabetes mellitus patients can increase uncomfortable feelings. Therefore, religiosity is needed to establish more prosperous psychological well-being. The research aimed analyze the correlation between and illness with type 2 mellitus. study design was a cross-sectional approach. A total of 138 respondents were recruited using consecutive sampling. Data collected Indonesi...

Background The use of coercion in the treatment of persons with serious mental illness is a long debated strategy to gain adherence to treatment for persons believed to be cognitively impaired by their illness. This article examines the psychometric properties of a scale developed to measure perception of coercion. Using a psychometrically sound scale found to be both reliable and valid in a sp...

Introduction: Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) accounts for the largest proportion of cardiovascular diseases. CHD patients may experience depressive symptoms or major disorder. Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) Score has good sensitivity and specificity with CHD. Negative illness perception is significantly associated more severe levels depression. The aim this study to understand characteristi...

Accurate illness perceptions are essential to the self-management of chronic illness. This study explored trajectories of illness perceptions in persons with morbid obesity (n = 53) and persons with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (n = 52) following a patient education course. Participants completed the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire five times over a 1-year period. Repeated measu...

BACKGROUND Respiratory tract infections (RTI) in children is the most common cause of prescription of antibiotics. It is important to describe and analyse non-medical factors in order to develop more rational use of antibiotics. OBJECTIVES To compare families with high and low concern about infectious illness with regard to social variables, perception of infection proneness and beliefs in an...

Illness is constituted by subjective experiences of symptoms and their psychosocial consequences. Illness perceptions concern people's lay beliefs about understandings and interpretation of a disease and expectations as to disease outcome. Our knowledge about illness perceptions and coping in relation to the cancer care context among persons with colorectal cancer (CRC) and their partners is in...

Perceptions about illnesses may influence self-care and preventive health behaviours. Illness perceptions of the Zika virus (ZIKV) infection were investigated under the framework of the Self-Regulation Model of Illness. Illness perception differences between ZIKV and dengue fever were also examined. Lastly, associations between illness perceptions of ZIKV with mosquito prevention practices were...

OBJECTIVE After lung transplantation little attention has been devoted to patient's personality and illness perceptions, although the importance of illness perceptions (e.g. to the psychosocial status of health) as well as the relationship between personality and illness perceptions is well-known from other areas of medicine. METHODS Fifty patients more than one year after lung transplantatio...

The diagnosis of depression in patients with physical illness is challenging. Symptoms of depression occur commonly but it is not always clear when they merit clinical attention. Depressive illness is more prevalent in patients with medical conditions than in the general population and results in substantial disability and healthcare costs.1 Despite this, there remains a perception that depress...