Question

how does the patient view of the meaning and significant of his/her illness affect their health?

can you please explain me in detail ?

Answer 1

Answer: Patient's view of the meaning and significance of his/her illness affect their health as because as a human we are psychologically affected with many of the values, ideas etc. When a patient is ill, he is not only physically ill, but he is suffering mentally. In the case of diseases and illness patients suffers from intense emotional trauma. The illness affects a patient's life in every aspect.

The trauma leads to depression, excessive thinking such as about the disease that the patient is going to be fine or not etc. These things affect the patient's mental condition which results in delayed recovery from the disease. When a person will not be mentally strong then it becomes difficult for him to recover soon as all the things are correlated with each other. For example, A patient is HIV positive, he also knows that there is no cure for this disease but only symptoms can be controlled. If the patient is mentally strong then he can take medications to reduce the symptoms but if not then he would slip into depression which may worsen his diseased condition.