Two theoretical perspectives of uncertainty that can be applied across the range of chronic illness are presented. Research on the causes and consequences of uncertainty in chronic illness are considered and critiqued. The review addresses research on adults and on parents of chronically ill children....
The social environment and illness uncertainty in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Hoth KF,Wamboldt FS,Ford DW,et al. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine . 2015Hoth KF; Wamboldt FS; Ford DW;.The social environ- ment and illness uncertainty in chronic obstructive puhnonary disease.Int...
The value of uncertainty in critical illness? An ethnographic study of patterns and conflicts in care and decision-making trajectories. With increasingly intensive treatments and population ageing, more people face complex treatment and care decisions. We explored patterns of the decision-m... I J,...
uncertainty in illnessand illness-related communication avoidance| College students facing familial chronic illness PURDUE UNIVERSITY Heather Servaty-Seib SuchakMeghanaThe focus of the current study was on examining possible differences in college students' adjustment based on residency status (i.e., ...
2.Objective To explore the effect of primary responsibility onuncertainty in illnessof patients undergonig endarterectomy.目的探讨"首问负责制"对颈动脉内膜剥脱术患者疾病不确定感的影响。 3.Objective To investigateuncertainty in illnessand quality of life in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseas...
Uncertainty in illness is a well known concept among many health conditions including chronic illnesses. Much has been investigated in research in how people adapt to different health conditions and how the concept of uncertainty in illness relates to those populations. However, in mental health, eve...
A growing body of literature suggests that uncertainty can have a variety of psychological effects.2–4 Mishel et al.5,6 describe perceptions of uncertainty surrounding chronic illness as a source of loss, leading to negative outcomes. At the same time, their data also suggest that uncertainty ...
Prospective impact of illness uncertainty on outcomes in chronic lung disease. Objective: To determine which aspect of illness uncertainty (i.e., ambiguity or complexity) has a stronger association with psychological and clinical outc... KF Hoth,FS Wamboldt,M Strand,... - 《Health Psychology Off...
More recent work shows that uncertainty has a different role inchronic illness, where symptoms are expected to continue for a lengthy period of time, than in acute illness, where symptoms are expected to resolve with treatment. From where I sit, having just received anacuteexplanati...
In addition, they experience high levels of illness uncertainty (IU), particularly in the first three months of the cancer treatment. IU is defined as a sense of loss of control and a perceptual state of doubt that changes over time [3]. Persistent uncertainty becomes a source of chronic ...