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Communicating About Health Current Issues And Perspectives 5th Edition Athena Du Pré - Solutions
7. Imagine that you are miserable with a head cold.For what reasons, if any, might you seek information online? If you have the option, would you like to have a phone conversation or an email exchange with a health care provider, or would you rather meet with that person face to face? Why?
6. How does uses and gratifications theory help to explain eHealth behavior? Give an example from your own experience.
5. Describe some of the most common reasons people seek health information online and the factors that might discourage them from doing so. Your answer should integrate the following terms and theories: information sufficiency threshold, the health information acquisition model, the Theory of
4. Do you think it is mostly a good idea or a bad idea for people to use mobile apps that diagnose their health conditions and suggest a course of action?Why?
3. How likely are you to sign up for texts and/or email services designed to help you reach particular health goals, such as eating better, working out more, or quitting smoking? Why? What aspects of these programs do you find most appealing (e.g., encouraging messages, online options to track your
2. Think of a person with whom you have a weak-tie relationship (perhaps a classmate, professor, or casual acquaintance) and a person with whom you have a strong tie (maybe a family member, best friend, or romantic partner). What might you gain by communicating with the weak-tie acquaintance?By
1. Think of a widespread health concern, such as disaster preparedness, safer sex, or responsible drinking. In what way is the issue represented in the personal sphere? In the technical sphere? In the public sphere? Which of these spheres influences you most? Why?
5. How might your life be affected if medical visits more often occur via telemedicine than in person?
4. How might your life and health be affected by easy-to-use mobile health evaluators that could instantly tell you your blood alcohol level, heart rate`a, blood sugar level, sleeping patterns, and so on, and provide advice on responding effectively?
3. Consider Topol’s scenario in which a patient notices an unusual mole and is able to upload a photo of the mole via a smartphone app and find out in minutes (based on computer algorithms)if it appears to be harmless or if he or she should seek medical attention for it. What are the advantages
2. Are there circumstances in which a virtual medical visit or hospital stay would be inferior to an in-person interaction? If so, when?
1. Are there situations in which you would prefer to consult with a health professional on the phone or via a video chat rather than visiting a doctor’s office or emergency room? If so, when?
10. What is your opinion of the right-to-die issue(Box 8.5)? Why?
9. Do you have an advance-care directive? Why or why not?
8. In your opinion, is there such a thing as a good death? If so, how would you describe it?
7. What does the term transcendent experience mean? Can you think of examples from movies or your own experiences?
6. Compare the birth experiences of Carol Bishop Mills and her husband with those of Kate and Chris. What do you learn from these examples?
5. Have you ever felt that an animal was a good friend? Why or why not? Do you think animal companionship affects your coping ability?
4. In what ways can people be oversupportive?What are the likely outcomes of different types of oversupport? Name five tips for assuring that sure social support efforts are effective.
3. Divide a paper into two columns. In the left hand, write specific expectations for your future.In the right column, evaluate each expectation in terms of whether it is likely to be good or bad, easy or difficult, likely or unlikely. The theory of problematic integration suggests that some of
2. Describe an instance in which you offered someone action-facilitating support and an instance in which you offered someone nurturing support.Now describe instances in which you received these forms of support. What was the outcome in each instance? Were the supportive efforts mostly effective or
1. On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your social support network in terms of the number of people you know? In terms of the quality of your interactions? Do you think relationships have an impact on your health? If so, how? Is the quantity or quality of your social ties more important to
5. What do you think of the counterargument—that people should not second-guess the patient’s wishes because they cannot fully understand the extent of his or her personal suffering?
4. What do you think of the argument that people who are scared and in pain may be not thinking clearly enough to make life-or-death decisions?
3. If you were in Dax Cowart’s place, do you feel you would want to die? What would you have done if you were Cowart’s caregivers and loved ones?
2. Should it make a difference whether a patient is terminally ill or not?
1. Under what circumstances, if any, do you feel patients should be assisted in killing themselves?
• What was difficult about it? What might make it easier?
• If so, what did you find rewarding about the experience?
• Have you ever been involved in caring for a loved one at home?
4. Have you seen TV programs or movies in which people’s organs are misused? Were the depictions realistic, in your opinion? Do you think such depictions affect people’s attitudes about organ donation?
3. Unlike the Greens, who live in Italy, people in the United States are not usually given the opportunity to meet the people who receive a loved one’s organs. Would you want to meet them? Why or why not?
2. What is most fearful about the prospect? What is most appealing?
1. What factors make you more (or less) inclined to register as an organ donor?
• Do you think animal companionship affects your coping ability?
• Have you ever felt that an animal was a good friend? Why or why not?
• Have you ever felt that people abandoned you when you needed social support?
• Have you ever felt at a loss when trying to comfort someone? If so, what did you do? What happened?
• If so, how did you cope?
• Have you ever felt confused or overwhelmed by information?
• Have you ever felt babied into a sick role?
• What types of support from others were most helpful?
• What coping strategies did you use?
• If so, did it feel that things might never be the same again?
• Have you ever experienced a crisis?
3. What would you do if a loved one could no longer communicate easily with you? Do you think it would change your relationship? If so, how?
2. Has your ability to communicate ever been compromised, even temporarily? Did people respond to you differently? If so, how?
1. Have you ever experienced difficulty communicating with someone because of a disability? If so, how did you handle the situation?
9. Have you participated in holistic care, either as a patient or a practitioner? If so, describe the role of communication in your experience. What were the potential advantages and disadvantages, in your opinion?
8. Which of the patient–caregiver role sets best describes your health care experiences? Which do you prefer? Why?
7. Are you more inclined to respond to illness as a“fighter” or as a “peacekeeper” or as a bit of both?What behaviors reflect your approach? Do you believe they are effective? Why or why not?
6. In what ways is your life affected by your gender?By your role as a family member? Do any of these factors influence your health or the way you communicate about health? If so, how?
5. Reread the “I Am Not a Victim of Breast Cancer”poem on page 164 or go online and read the entire poem. In what ways does the author seem to be addressing the stigma of disease? What do her words suggest about the notion that people with cancer are “victims?”
4. Think of a health episode you or someone you know has experienced. In what way did explicate-level factors play a role? In what way did implicate-level factors influence what happened?Do you think these factors have a significant impact on health overall?
3. If you were to schedule a day’s worth of activities in which you would experience a balance of yin and yang energy, what might that day include?Do you think living that way on a consistent basis would influence your health? Why or why not?
2. What aspects of your health are well explained by an organic approach? By a harmonic approach?If you made a list of healthy behaviors you would like to adopt, what, if anything, would you list in terms of organic factors? What, if anything, would reflect the desire for balance? Why?
1. Consider the quote on page 154 by the nurse who was offended by the suggestion that staff members avoid telling patients “Merry Christmas.” If she were to follow the principles of Fuller’s reflective negotiation model, what questions might she ask other people? What questions might she ask
• Have you told your doctor about these activities?Why or why not?
• If so, what was your experience?
• Have you ever taken part in holistic treatment (e.g., meditation, herbal supplements, acupuncture, chiropractic)?
2. In what circumstances, if any, would you rather be treated as a partner in making decisions about your care?
1. In what circumstances, if any, might you follow a doctor’s advice without question?
4. Do you feel patients are capable of making decisions about their own care?
3. Can you think of circumstances in which you would rather your physician did not know you well?
2. Can you think of circumstances in which you would want your physician to know your feelings and life circumstances?
1. Do you feel it is realistic or preferable for health caregivers to know their patients’ feelings and values? If so, how might they accomplish this? If not, what alternatives would you suggest?
• On balance, which feels more familiar to you?More appealing?
• Are there ways in which the peace and flexibility perspective is appealing to you? If so, how?
• Are there ways in which the military metaphor is appealing to you? If so, how?
• Some people feel that smoking and obesity have become stigmatized in the United States.Do you agree or disagree? Why?
• Why might members of a society stigmatize ill individuals?
• Have you ever experienced health care in a different culture? If so, what was your experience like? How was it similar to the health care you experience at home? How was it different?
• Do you have experience interacting with people from diverse cultures? If so, what are the most important things you have learned?
11. Think carefully about the way you communicate with older adults? Does your communication exhibit accommodation in any way? If so, how?Do you think the accommodation is necessary or might you be overaccommodating?
10. Imagine that you must explain to a child what it means to have cancer. What language and metaphors might you use? How would you change the way you communicate based on the child’s age and ability to conceptualize illness?
9. Researchers make the point that we all have abilities and disabilities of different sorts. What do you consider your greatest abilities? Your greatest challenges? Do these influence your identity and the way people treat you? If so, how?
8. What did you learn from the case study “Language Barriers in a Health Care Emergency” (Box 6.5)? Have you ever been in a situation in which it was difficult to understand or convey important information? If so, what happened?
7. Do you think affirmative action should be maintained or abolished as a factor when selecting students for caregiver education programs (Box 6.3).Why do you feel that way?
6. Are you interested in knowing your genetic profile?Why or why not? Are you concerned that, if you have a genetic profile, the information might be used against you? Why or why not?
5. What are some explanations of why people of different races seem to achieve different health outcomes?Have you ever witnessed or experienced any of these factors? If so, which ones?
4. List at least 10 words that describe your gender identity. Do you relate to any of the identities represented in the acronym LGBTQQIAAP?Does your gender identity inf luence your health and the way you communicate about it?If so, how?
3. We are all more literate in some ways than others.What types of information do you find it easy to understand? What types are difficult for you?How might someone best help you understand information you find challenging?
2. How might you apply the factors relevant to socioeconomic status to yourself? In what ways are you privileged? In what ways are you disadvantaged?How do these affect your health and the way you communicate about it?
1. Consider the brief scenario described by Lucy Candib at the beginning of the chapter. What elements of intersectionality theory can you apply to the patient she describes? What micro- and macro-level factors intersect to define your own social position?
• It’s common for people in their eighties and nineties to say they do not feel old or consider themselves “seniors” or “elderly” at all. Did any of the people you talked to feel that way? What do you learn from that?
• What did you learn about their preferences?
• Ask older people you know which term(s)they prefer from the following list and why:elders, seniors, elderly, older adults, senior citizen.
• Start to notice how you communicate with older adults. Do you behave differently than you would with other people. If so, how?
• How would you react if everyone started speaking unusually slowly or loudly to you?
• To test the effects of communication accommodation, try altering your speech and observing how a conversational partner reacts. Does he or she converge (e.g., whisper if you whisper)or diverge?
3. How does the average life span for men and women in the United States compare?
2. In which country are people’s lives the shortest?
1. Around the world, in which country do people have the longest average life expectancy?
6. Have you ever been in a situation in which you have had to communicate with someone who did not speak the same language as you? How did you handle the situation?
5. Researchers have found that people are more fearful about medical visits if they feel socially alienated and disconnected from their environments. What might we do to ease these feelings?
4. What could the first surgeon have done to help both Maria and Consuelo feel more at ease?
3. How could Consuelo have eliminated some of her anxiety?
2. Do you think hospitals should do more to accommodate non-English speakers? Why or why not?
1. How might you have acted if you were Consuelo?If you were Maria?
4. Do you think genetic test results would strengthen your resolve to engage in healthy behaviors?
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