PSYC 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Health Belief Model, Negative Affectivity, Socioeconomic Status
5 Jun 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Psyc 2301 chapter 8: using health services. *all content belongs to tarry ahuja & where cited in lecture slides* Factors influencing symptoms can include: individual differences / personality. Hypochondriacs, neuroticism, negative affectivity (depression, anxiety: cultural differences differences in emotional responses, situational factors medical student"s disease, stress, mood. Illness representation (or schema): patients" own implicit common sense beliefs about their illnesses. 5 distinct components of illness schemas include: identity (label), duration, consequences, cure, causes. Most individuals have 3 models of illness: acute illness bacterial or viral, short duration, chronic multi-factorial, long duration, cyclic illness alternating periods of activity. Other factors that can influencing interpretation of symptoms include: lay referral network input from friends, fam, peers, internet background info, lifestyle modification. Canada"s public health care system = funded. America"s health care system = privately funded. Factors that can predict use of health services: age infants vs. late adulthood vs. elderly, gender women > men, socio-economic status specialists vs. general care, culture:
