Knowledge About Specific Diseases in Four Selected Samples

Samora, Julian; Saunders, Lyle; Larson, Richard F.

doi:10.2307/2949044

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“…67 Patients with a given disease know pointed out the importance of such variables only slightly more about it than those who as definitions of illness, perceptions of treat-have never had it. 69 Having an associate ment, expectations about the doctor-patient with a disease and reading about some relationship, and the favorability of the famous person's disease lead to about equal social structure to which the sick one will increments in knowledge about that disease.…”

Section: Sick-role Behavior-kasl and Cobbmentioning

confidence: 96%

Health Behavior, Illness Behavior, and Sick-Role Behavior

Kasl

Cobb

1966

Archives of Environmental Health: An International Journal

271

105

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THE FIRST part of this presentation began with definitions of the three kinds of health-related behavior. Health behavior is any activity undertaken by a person believing himself to be healthy, for the purpose of preventing disease or detecting it in an asymptomatic stage. Illness behavior is any activity, undertaken by a person who feels ill, to define the state of his health and to discover a suitable remedy. Sick-role behavior is the activity undertaken, for the purpose of getting well, by those who consider themselves ill. It includes receiving treatment from appropriate therapists, generally involves a whole range of dependent behaviors, and leads to some degree of neglect of one's usual duties.In the next step, a theoretical framework seeking to clarify behavioral accompaniments of changes in health was suggested. Within this framework, the changes in health and illness were seen from four levels of description: somatic health, behavior, role performance, ancl identity. Next, a theoretical model of action was proposed, which attempted to describe the important variables influencing health, illness, and sick-role behavior. The remainder of the paper was then concerned with reviewing studies of health and illness behavior so that the relevance and adequacy of the model of action could be evaluated. The focus of the present paper is on studies of sick-role behavior and the support they may provide for our theoretical framework.

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Section: Sick-role Behavior-kasl and Cobbmentioning

confidence: 96%

Health Behavior, Illness Behavior, and Sick-Role Behavior

Kasl

Cobb

1966

Archives of Environmental Health: An International Journal

271

105

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“…A patient's understanding of his illness and his general medical knowledge have been shown to affect responses to medical advice to a significant extent (Samora et al , 1962; Pridan & Navid 1964; Korsch et al , 1968; Francis et al , 1969).…”

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Patient knowledge and the content of the consultation in general practice

Bain

1977

Medical Education

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Summary The relationship between verbal exchange in doctor‐patient consultations and patients’ comprehension has been measured by means of audiotape recordings. The results provide objective evidence of differences in outcomes for similar presenting illnesses in different social groups, and these results tend to support the hypothesis that people from lower socio‐economic classes may not derive as much benefit from medical advice as do those of middle and upper classes. The author identified deficiencies in clinical relationship which if corrected will improve doctor‐patient communication in consultations in general practice. If patient comprehension and compliance are viewed as essential, communicative as well as clinical skills have to be accepted as part of the general practitioner's training.

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“…Many writers have pointed out that a patient's characteristics, and especially social class and educational background, influence the physician's communication (Cabot, 1903;Reader et al, 1957;Seligmann et al, 1957;Samora et al, 1962;Cartwright, 1973). We theorized that these relationships may derive from sociolinguistic differences between practitioner and patient, in part because of the patient's diffidence about expressing a desire for information.…”

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The informative process in medical care: A preliminary report with implications for instructional communication

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This paper presents a summary of an on-going research project concerned with doctor-patient communications. Of specific interest are doctors' communications of information about illness to the patient. The communication of information in medical care situations is considered to be, at certain levels, analogous to the purposive, instructional communications in education.Sociological considerations guiding this research are summarized under four headings: (1) problems of uncertainty and power; (2) the definition of information; (3) sociolinguistics and the diffidence of the sick poor; and, (4) ethnomethodology and common sense constructs. The doctor-patient relationship is viewed as a micro-political situation in which information control is used, at least in part, to maintain patterns of dominance and subordination.The overall methodological objective of this research is to develop a research design, linked to these research objectives, which allows reproducible and generalizable conclusions about the informative process in a variety of clinical settings. This preliminary paper includes a discussion of technical problems arising from the study of doctor-patient relationships and communications; preliminary results of studies of non-verbal communication; and, qualitative themes in the informative process.

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Knowledge About Specific Diseases in Four Selected Samples

Cited by 35 publications

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Health Behavior, Illness Behavior, and Sick-Role Behavior

Health Behavior, Illness Behavior, and Sick-Role Behavior

Patient knowledge and the content of the consultation in general practice

The informative process in medical care: A preliminary report with implications for instructional communication

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