Psychology of Chronic Illness
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Course Introduction
This course explores the psychological aspects of living with chronic illnesses, examining how long-term medical conditions impact mental health, coping strategies, and overall quality of life. Students will learn about the interpersonal, social, and cultural factors influencing adaptation to chronic illness, as well as the role of psychological assessment and intervention in disease management. Topics include stress, resilience, patient-provider relationships, adherence to treatment, and the impact of chronic conditions on families. The course integrates contemporary research and case studies to better understand the complex interplay between chronic physical illnesses and psychological well-being.
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The Psychology of Health and Health Care A Canadian Perspective 5th Edition by Gary Poole
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Chapter 1: Welcome to Health Psychology
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Q1) new The discovery that many illnesses are caused by the activity of microorganisms,such as bacteria is known as
A)psychosomatic medicine
B)germ theory
C)behavioural medicine
D)psychoneuroimmunology
E)biopsychosocial approach
Answer: B
Q2) The study of compliance was important because
A)it lead to a more in depth study of the physician-patient relationship
B)most patients were not complying with physician recommendations
C)physicians were frustrated because patients were uncooperative
D)drug costs were escalating
E)non-compliance is very expensive
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Stress and Coping
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Q1) According to the Cognitive Transactional Model proposed by Lazarus and Folkman,secondary appraisal is
A)a continuous experience in which existing appraisals are changed or modified on the basis of new information
B)concerned with a person's evaluation of his or her ability to cope with a situation
C)concerned with the initial evaluation of a situation
D)only occurs after the primary appraisal is complete
E)the same as a defensive appraisal
Answer: B
Q2) When potential stressors are anticipated and acted on in advance to prevent or decrease their impact the type of coping is
A)emotion focused
B)coping response
C)proactive
D)combative
E)stress management
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Psychoneuroimmunology
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Q1) The importance of drawing a distinction between state and trait affect as illustrated by the Cohen and colleagues study (1995)is the apparent
A)misinterpretation of symptoms by the state-negative group
B)cognitive bias of the state- negative group
C)cognitive bias of the trait-negative group
D)predisposition to developing URI symptoms in the state-negative
E)predisposition to developing URI symptoms in the trait-negative group
Answer: C
Q2) For people with autoimmune diseases,the hallmark of the immune system which fails is the
A)non-specific immune system
B)specific immune system
C)memory function
D)specificity function
E)tolerance
Answer: E
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Chapter 4: Health Communication
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Q1) Which of the following is not a principle for assessing the quality of health-related web sites:
A)Authority
B)Complementarity
C)Confidentiality
D)Attribution
E)Attrition
Q2) The advantages of e-mail communication between physicians and patients include all of the following except:
A)saves time
B)convenient
C)makes patients feel more comfortable asking questions
D)allows the message to be saved for reviewing at a later time
E)decreased patient satisfaction
Q3) Describe the factors which predict adherence to medical treatment.
Q4) Describe how the internet is changing health behavior in Canada.
Q5) Describe the six interconnected components of the patient-centred care model first proposed by Levenstein and currently being tested at the University of Western Ontario.
Q6) Discuss the principles for assessing quality in Health-related web sites
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Chapter 5: Health and Physical Activity
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Q1) Despite the many benefits of physical activity,non-adherence is still a significant issue.What examples does Taylor (1994)provide to explain the avoidance of exercise and sport?
Q2) Name and describe the most widely practiced relaxation technique in sport.What are the benefits of relaxation training?
Q3) Describe the health-illness continuum and the components of health proposed by Greenberg and Pargman (1989).
Q4) The most influential source of self-efficacy is ____________,whereas the least powerful source of self-efficacy is _______________ .
A)vicarious experience;verbal persuasion
B)vicarious experience;emotional arousal
C)performance accomplishments;emotional arousal
D)performance accomplishments;verbal persuasion
E)emotional arousal;vicarious experience
Q5) Apply the concept of self-efficacy to the realm of performance in physical activity.
Q6) What are the different functions that self-talk can serve in sport?
Q7) Describe the five forms of physical activity and give an example of each.
Q8) What factors determine a particular individual's reaction to a sports injury?
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Chapter 6: Health-Compromising Behaviours
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Q1) When the body's level of leptin increases
A)the neurons that stimulate hunger are suppressed
B)the neurons that stimulate hunger are activated
C)body fat decreases
D)energy expenditure is reduced
E)caloric intake increases
Q2) Aversion strategies such as electric shock and rapid smoking are most effective if used _____________________
A)sparingly
B)initially
C)over a long period of time
D)with education about the problems with smoking
E)with information about the benefits of not smoking
Q3) Using the information-motivation-behavioural skills model describe the steps one must go through before one will engage in safe sex practices.
Q4) Distinguish between bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa.
Q5) Apply the stages of change model to drug use and indicate the stages an individual goes through in deciding to use cocaine.
Q6) Explain why prevention would be the preferred strategy for dealing with obesity.
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Chapter 7: Chronic and Life-Threatening Illnesses
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Q1) The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy scales include subscales that assess such things as emotional or physical well-being.This assessment is an example of a(n)
A)multidimensional assessment
B)global assessment
C)objective personality questionnaire
D)invasion of patient privacy
E)treatment effectiveness questionnaire
Q2) In grief therapy,all of the following are steps in the Rs of mourning except:
A)recognizing the loss
B)reacting to the separation
C)recollecting the relationship
D)relinquishing old attachments
E)resolution of old grievances
Q3) When is chemotherapy most likely to be used for cancer patients? Describe the possible side effects.What is anticipatory nausea and how is it explained from a psychological viewpoint?
Q4) Compare emotion focused and problem focused coping strategies.Provide examples of typical behaviours illustrating each strategy.
Q5) What is social comparison and how does it affect people in support groups?
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Chapter 8: Pain
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Q1) Sensory aspects of pain are influenced by the _____________ which send messages to the thalamus while motivational elements of pain are determined by
A)nociceptors;afferent nerve fibres
B)C-fibres;A-delta fibres
C)A-delta fibres;C-fibres
D)Sensory neurons;motivational neurons
E)Sensory neurons;motor neurons
Q2) Which of the following is true of C-fibres?
A)associated with afferent peripheral fibres that transmit pain impulses
B)associated with sharp,distinct pain
C)small,myelinated fibres
D)large,myelinated fibres
E)transmit impulses very quickly
Q3) Which of the following is characteristic of chronic intractable benign pain?
A)intense episodes of acute pain followed by relief
B)pain lasting 3-6 months without resolution
C)pain all the time with varying intensity
D)continuous discomfort that gradually intensifies
E)pain most of the time of constant intensity
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Chapter 9: The World of Health Care: Places, procedures, and People
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Q1) Kiyoshi is a patient in ICU.He is beginning to realize that there is a machine which is helping him to breathe.According to Pallavinci-Gonzalez and colleagues (1995)he would be classified as being in the A)monitor stage
B)blunting stage
C)6incommunication stage
D)reflexion stage
Q2) The symptoms of compassion fatigue mimics the symptoms of A)burnout
B)post-traumatic stress disorder
C)chronic fatigue syndrome
D)depression
E)reality shock
Q3) Patients who showed the least physiological stress in response to a medical procedure were those who were given the amount of information that fit their preferences.Explain this statement.
Q4) Describe the factors which contribute to the patient feeling a loss of control in the hospital setting.How might this have a negative impact on the patient?
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Q5) Discuss the psychological effects associated with a false positive mammogram.
Chapter 10: From One to Many: Health on a Large Scale
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Q1) In reference to the health related dimension of a neighbourhood,connectivity refers to
A)internet availability
B)the straight line distance between two points
C)street design and sidewalk availability
D)ratio of dwellings to land area
E)number of different types of use featured in an area
Q2) All of the following are listed as health care priorities by the Assembly of First Nations except
A)home and community care
B)suicide prevention
C)cardiovascular disease
D)tobacco control
E)injury prevention
Q3) The first identified instance of a medical problem such as SARS is known as the
A)index case
B)first sighting
C)prevalence
D)target case
E)epidemic case
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Chapter 11: Health Promotion
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Q1) The theoretical framework designed to facilitate and analyze health promotion programs from the planning stages through to their implementation and impact is
A)theory of planned behaviour model
B)health belief model
C)precede-proceed model
D)extended parallel process model
E)reasoned action model
Q2) Describe the first 5 phases of the precede-proceed model as they would be applied to a program designed to increase physical activity levels in elementary school children.
Q3) One problem with high fear arousal in health promotion is that it may
A)cause self efficacy to suffer when we are afraid
B)inhibit physiological responding
C)inhibit the denial response
D)cause a change in attitude
E)inhibit the stress response
Q4) Discuss the two sources of social support and using examples,describe the types of support than can be provided from each source.
Q5) Describe the steps involved in the evaluation of health promotion initiatives.
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Chapter 12: Conducting Research in Health Psychology
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Q1) Patients who had suffered a heart attack were randomly assigned to two groups,One group received Cardiac Rehab,and the other did not.This is an example of
A)a positive correlation
B)a negative correlation
C)a random clinical trial
D)a cross sectional design
E)fatal research flaw
Q2) A research design investigating people who have developed medical conditions and tracing back in their history to find variables that would possibly explain how they came to have that condition is called
A)factor analysis
B)longitudinal research
C)retrospective research
D)cross sectional research
E)quasiexperimental field research
Q3) What are the advantages and disadvantages of longitudinal and cross-sectional research designs as they apply to health psychology research?
Q4) Describe three common flaws in health psychology research.
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Chapter 13: Epidemiology: What Can Be Learned From the Sars Outbreak in Canada
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Q1) The first identified instance of a medical problem is called the A)host
B)agent
C)index case
D)patient number one
E)point patient
Q2) Of the types of agents possible,the agent for SARS was
A)chemical
B)physical
C)biological
D)social/behavioural
E)nutritional
Q3) Describe what an epidemiologist does and using the SARS outbreak describe the illness pattern that was of interest to epidemiologists.
Q4) Describe the steps involved in epidemiological research.
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Chapter 14: Complementary and Alternative Medicine Cam
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Q1) An interesting finding in the study of CAM users is that the use of alternative treatments is more likely for those patients
A)with a terminal illness
B)who attend support groups
C)who mistrust their physician
D)with low self esteem
E)who readily use over the counter medication
Q2) Distinguish between the terms complementary,alternative and holistic therapies.
Q3) The difference between alternative treatment and complementary treatment is that the latter is
A)used in conjunction with allopathic treatment
B)not allopathic
C)traditional medicine
D)holistic
E)effective
Q4) Why might a patient decide to use CAM? What are the characteristics of the person most likely to pursue alternative treatments?
Q5) Using the different outcome categories discuss the research findings addressing the effectiveness of CAM.
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Chapter 15: the Sociology of Health and Illness
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Q1) In the case of AIDS,people with this disease often find that their disease status has become
A)the same as their illness status
B)the source of conflict according to conflict theory
C)irrelevant
D)unmanageable
E)their master status in sociological terms
Q2) A sociological theory that people's interpretations of their interactions and the events of their lives go well beyond the actual words used or,in the case of health-related events,the diagnosis they are given is
A)conflict theory
B)feminist theory
C)symbolic interactionism
D)sick role theory
E)transcript theory
Q3) Discuss the three major topics or issues which are the focus of women's health care.
Q4) Distinguish between disease and illness from the perspective of a medical sociologist using symbolic interactionism.
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