The dissimilarity between patients' and relatives' perception of eating disorders and its relation to patient adjustment
| Autor: | María del Carmen Terol Cantero, Yolanda Quiles Marcos, John Weinman, Marina Beléndez Vázquez |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Comunicación y Psicología Social, Psicología Social y Salud |
| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Chronic condition
medicine.medical_specialty Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice genetic structures Adolescent Cross-sectional study media_common.quotation_subject Feeding and Eating Disorders Perception Surveys and Questionnaires Outpatients medicine Illness perception Humans Psicología Social Family Young adult Psychiatry Child Applied Psychology Depression (differential diagnoses) Relatives' perception media_common Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic Social environment medicine.disease Eating disorders Adjustment Spain Anxiety Female Revised illness perception questionnaire medicine.symptom Psychology psychological phenomena and processes |
| Zdroj: | Journal of health psychology. 14(2) |
| ISSN: | 1359-1053 |
| Popis: | This study aims to examine the relation between the degree of dissimilarity in patients' and relatives' perception of eating disorders (ED) and patient adjustment. Sixty ED patients and their relatives were interviewed. They completed the Spanish version for ED of the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R). Patients who agreed with their relatives that their illness was highly distressful, a chronic condition and with high identity, showed higher psychological distress than patients who did not agree with their relatives. When patients and relatives had fairly positive perceptions of illness controllability and curability, these patients showed lower levels of depression and anxiety. |
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