Health Psychology - Dying

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Kubier-Ross 5 Stages of Dying

1. Denial
2. Anger
   
3. Bragaining
4. Depression
   
5. Acceptence

5 Goals of Medical Staff to the Dying

1. Informed Constent - patient should know the condition and treatment involvement
2. Safe Conduct - Physican and other staff act as useful guides for patients through this new and frightening stage of life
3. Significant Survival - Physican and other medical staff should help staff the patient's remaining time as well as possible
4. Anticipating Grief - Patient of family should aid in working the anticipated sense of loss and depression
5. Timely and Appropraite Deaths - Patient should be allowed to die when he or she wants as possible, dying with dignity.
   

Health Psychology - Quality of Life

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Quality of Life

Quailty of Life gives attention to the management of chronic illness in 3 ways

• physical functioning
• psychological status
• diseases or treatment related symptomatology

It looks into how the dieseas and treatment interfers with the daily routines of life (eat/sleep/work/recreation/etc..). For more advance diseases, assessment includes toilet visiting, and eating without assistance.

Study of the quality of life produces documentation of how vocational, social and personal activities can assist to design interventions to improve the quality of life. It also assist in pinpointing the problems that are likely to emerge with the patients with dieseases and hels in the anticipation of interventions required.

In summary the study of Quality of life assists in :

• Access the impact of treatment- identify unpleasent treatment and identify some determiinants of poor adherence to therapies
• Compare therapy
• Inform decision makers about care that maximises long term survival with highest quality of life possible.

Health Psychology - Management of Pain and Disorder

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Management of Pain and Disorder

The physiology of pain consist of psychological, behavorial and sensory components of the human body.

3 Kinds of Pain Perception

1. Mechanical Nociception- Mechanical Damage to the tissue of the body
2. Thermal Damage - Experience of pain due to temperture exposure
3. Polymodal Nociception - pain that triggers chemical reactions from tissue damage

2 Kinds of Clinincal Pain

1. Acute - resulting from a specific injury that produce tissue damage
2. Chronic - Begins with an acute epsiode but does not decrease with treatment or passage of time

3 subtypes of Chronic Pain

1. Chronic Benign pain - pain lasting 6 months or longer and relatively unresponsive to treatment
2. Recurrent Acute Pain - Series of intermittent episodes of pain that persist more than 6 months
3. Chronic Progressive Pain - Pain that persist more than 6 months and increase in serverity over time.