This document discusses the impact of illness on patient psychological well-being. It defines health and illness and explains that illness diminishes physical, emotional, intellectual, social, developmental or spiritual functioning. There are two types of illness - acute and chronic. Chronic illness persists for over 6 months and can affect functioning. The impact of illness includes symptoms like changes in personality, stress, anxiety and depression. Stress from illness can come from financial loss, burden, loss of self-esteem, fear of disability and uncertain prognosis. Psychological impacts can include conditions like Alzheimer's, depression and schizophrenia. Adolescence is also a period where mental illnesses often emerge.
3. • IMPACT OF ILLNESS ON
PATIENT PSYCHOLOGICAL
WELL-BEING.
4. Health and illness:
• Health is the state of physical and mental
well-being.
• Illness is the opposite of health.
• Symptoms:
~like pain or fever etc.
5.
6. WELL-BEING:
• A good or satisfactory condition of
existence; a state characterized by health,
happiness, and prosperity.
• The state of being comfortable, healthy, or
happy.
7. What is illness ???....
• It is a state in which a person's
PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL,
INTELLECTUAL, SOCIAL,
DEVELOPMENTAL OR SPIRITUAL
functioning is diminished.
• It is a condition of pronounced deviation
from normal healthy state.
• It may or may not be related to disease.
8. Types of illness:
• There are two types of illness:
• 1. Acute illness
• 2. Chronic illness
9. Acute illness:
• usually has a short duration and less
severe.
• the signs and symptoms appear abruptly,
are intense and often subside after a
relatively short period.
• a person may return to normal level of
wellness.
10. Chronic illness:
• Slow onset.
• persist,usually longer than 6 months and
can affect functioning in any dimension.
• long term disease process.
• maximal or serious disfunctioning may be
life threatening.
11. • The infectious nature.
• The possibility of passing it to the next
generation through inheritance.
• How long will the treatment last and there
are any residual disabilities or
vulnerabilities.
Major concern about the
illness includes:
13. Impact of illness on patient:
Symptoms:
• Personality
• Stress
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Anger
• Unconsciousness
• Weakness
• Privacy
• Loss of appetite
• Weigh loss
• Loss of sleep
• Life-style
• Financial burden
• Family and significant others
14. stress:
• A state of mental or emotional strain or
tension resulting from adverse or
demanding circumstances.
• a specific response by the body to a
stimulus as fear or pain.
• physical and mental emotions.
15.
16. Stress due to illness:
• In addition to the impact of the illness the
patient also experiences the stress of the
illness in following ways:
17. • Financial loss: the disease and disability
may result in a temporary or permanent
loss of JOB.
• Fanancial burden: on the patient and his
family in case of treatment and
consultation.
• Loss of self esteem: the passive role,the
feeling of being a source of financial stress
and the distress of the disease lead to a
poorer view of the self.
18. • Fear of being handicapped:fear of failure
of treatment resulting in a disability,
handicap or a functional loss all through
his illness.
• Uncertain prognosis: short or long term
prognosis, along with possibility of a
relapse.
26. • Many mental illness begin
during childhood and
persist into adolescence.
• some of these include:
Attention deficit
hyperactivity
disorder(ADHD)
Autism Spectrum
Disorders(ASD)
Generalized Anxiety
Disorder(GAD).
28. Alzeimer's disease:Alzeimer's disease:
• Progressive mental deterioration that can
occur in middle or old age, due to
generalized degeneration of the brain. It is
the commonest cause of premature
senility.
29. signs and symptoms:
• Misplacing personal
belongings.
• Forgetting events or
appointments.
• Inability to manage
finances.
• Poor decision-making
ability.
• Difficulty thinking of
common words while
speaking, hesitations.
• Speech, spelling, and
writing errors.
30. The objective of illness
prevention activities:
1. To reduce the risk of illness.
2. To promote health habits.
3. To maintain the individual's optimal
functioning.
32. Composed of two arrow pointing in opposite
directions and joining at a neutral point.
33. 1. Movement to the right on the arrows
(towards wellness) increasing level of
health and well-being.
~Achieved in three steps:
a.Awareness
b.Education
c.Growth
34. • movement to the left side on the
arrow(premature death) progessively
decreasing state of health.
~Achieved in three steps:
a.Signs
b.Symptoms
c.Disability
35. References:
• Behavioural science for medical and
dental students by mowadat H. rana and
mansoor mustafa.
• The Psychology of B.F. Skinner.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2001. Print.
• International Encyclopedia of the Social &
Behavioral Sciences, 26 v.
