Sick Role
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Trust, power, and vulnerability: a discourse on helping in nursing.

29 Nov 2009 This article uses philosophical inquiry to present the relationship between the helping role in nursing and the concept of trust essential to it. It characterizes helping as the moral center of the nurse-patient relationship and discusses how ... Read more...

Surviving critical illness: acute respiratory distress syndrome as experienced by patients and their caregivers.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To characterize the effects of critical illness in the daily lives and functioning of acute respiratory distress syndrome survivors. Survivors of acute respiratory distress syndrome, a systemic critical illness, often report poor quality ... Read more...

Interpersonal effects of suffering in older adult caregiving relationships.

30 Aug 2009 Examining the interpersonal effects of suffering in the context of family caregiving is an important step to a broader understanding of how exposure to suffering affects humans. In this review article, the authors first describe existing evidence ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Sick Role'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Trust, power, and vulnerability: a discourse on helping in nursing. 29 Nov 2009
• Surviving critical illness: acute respiratory distress syndrome as experienced by patients and their caregivers. 29 Sep 2009
• A piece of my mind. Howard. 31 Aug 2009
• The body as foe. 30 Aug 2009
• [Chronically ill, a lifelong responsibility, viewed from 3 different perspectives. Basal stimulation in nursing chronically ill children (3)] 30 Aug 2009
• [Interdisciplinary counseling of women with intestinal cancer: counseling brings courage] 30 Aug 2009
• Interpersonal effects of suffering in older adult caregiving relationships. 30 Aug 2009
• A matter of time. 24 Aug 2009
• Benefits of negative social exchanges for emotional closeness. 10 Aug 2009
• Validation of the Clinical COPD Questionnaire as a psychophysical outcome measure in adult laryngotracheal stenosis. 30 Jul 2009
• Psychosocial interventions and quality of life in gynaecological cancer patients: a systematic review. 30 Jul 2009
• The fit between stress appraisal and dyadic coping in understanding perceived coping effectiveness for adolescents with type 1 diabetes. 30 Jul 2009
• [To have or to experience--that is the question. The difference between believing one is ill and being ill] 30 Jul 2009
• A postal survey of doctors' attitudes to becoming mentally ill. 30 Jul 2009
• [Cost analysis for ambulatory treatment of cystic fibrosis patients in Germany. Overview of the prospective study results] 16 Jul 2009
• A piece of my mind. Rediscovering my voice. 13 Jul 2009
• Sexual dysfunction and spousal communication in couples coping with prostate cancer. 29 Jun 2009
• Evaluation of a psycho-educational group intervention for children treated for cancer: a descriptive pilot study. 29 Jun 2009
• Cognitive deficits as long-term side-effects of adjuvant therapy in breast cancer patients: 'subjective' complaints and 'objective' neuropsychological test results. 29 Jun 2009
• Predictors of treatment decision evaluation in patients with cancer. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Sick Role'

Definition: Set of expectations that exempt persons from responsibility for their illness and exempt them from usual responsibilities.

Descriptor UI: D012803

Alternative terms: Sick Role; Role, Sick; Roles, Sick; Sick Roles;

Related Mesh Headings: Illness Behavior;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F01.829.316.616.751;

History Note: 71