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Sick role
About: Sick role is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 633 publications have been published within this topic receiving 19017 citations.
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TL;DR: Most research directed at understanding ”activity undertaken by those who consider themselves ill, for the purpose of getting well” has yielded an unsystematic multiplicity of findings which are often either not predictive of such patient compliance,’’ or are mutually contradictory.
Abstract: Most research directed a t understanding ”activity undertaken by those who consider themselves ill, for the purpose of getting well” has yielded an unsystematic multiplicity of findings which are often either not predictive of such patient compliance,’” or are mutually contradictory.7.8 These difficulties arise, in part, from past dependence on a “medical” model of patient behavior, which stresses such easily identified and quantified dimensions as characteristics of the patient (e.g., demographic and social),6~B~lO the regimen (e.g., type, complexity, discomfort, duration),ll-l3 and the illness (e.g., medically-defined seriousness, duration, disability).7,14J5
2,148 citations
TL;DR: Health Behavior, Illness Behavior and Sick Role behavior Stanislav V. Kasl PhD & Sidney Cobb MD
Abstract: Health Behavior, Illness Behavior and Sick Role behavior Stanislav V. Kasl PhD & Sidney Cobb MD To cite this article: Stanislav V. Kasl PhD & Sidney Cobb MD (1966) Health Behavior, Illness Behavior and Sick Role behavior, Archives of Environmental Health: An International Journal, 12:2, 246-266, DOI: 10.1080/00039896.1966.10664365 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00039896.1966.10664365
635 citations
1 Jan 1975
TL;DR: The author insisted that the relation is basically asymmetrical because of the physician's expertise in health matters, gained through training and experience, and his special fiduciary responsibility for the care of the sick, comparable to the relation of teacher and student in higher education.
Abstract: The main substance of this paper was presented orally at a meeting of the Sick Role, organized and chaired by Andrew Twaddle. It was a commentary on four papers and the oral discussion of them. In response to these the paper first discusses the relation of the sick role to deviant behavior and the motivation to become and remain ill. The position was taken that the author never had meant to confine the category of illness to deviant behavior, though its negative valuation should not be forgotten. Nor had he confined it to cases of acute illness, omitting consideration of chronic and other types. The most important issue, however, concerned the structure of the relation between physician and patient. Though insisting that interaction between them is two-way, not one-way, the author insisted that the relation is basically asymmetrical because of the physician's expertise in health matters, gained through training and experience, and his special fiduciary responsibility for the care of the sick. In this respect the relationship is different from others such as the competitive market or the democratic association, but is comparable to the relation of teacher and student in higher education.
627 citations
TL;DR: The aim of this book is to clarify the role of emotion and social reinforcement in the development of health and illness in the context of a post-vaccine environment.
Abstract: (1966). Health Behavior, Illness Behavior, and Sick-Role Behavior. Archives of Environmental Health: An International Journal: Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 531-541.
570 citations
TL;DR: Three explanatory models to account for sex differences in illness experience are considered and it is concluded that a model looking at illness behavior as a function of the number and character of other role obligations offers the most promise for future research.
535 citations
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