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Chronic illness and wellbeing: using nursing practice to foster resilience as resistance
- Source :
- British Journal of Nursing. 22:741-746
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Mark Allen Group, 2013.
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Abstract
- Chronic non-communicable diseases such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes are the biggest killers worldwide. Chronic conditions include heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer, chronic respiratory disease and are often comorbid with mental illness. Over 60 years ago, the British Medical Journal reported an association between mental illness and poor physical health ( Philips, 1934 ). Comorbid mental illness and physical illness incrementally worsens health compared with mental illness alone or any of the chronic non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes alone. This paper aims to open the dialogue related to optimising, through nursing intervention, a patient's self-righting and self-management factors in the context of comorbid chronic conditions such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer, chronic respiratory disease, with mental illness. Self-managementand self-righting capabilities are now being considered integral to reducing the negative impact of chronic conditions such as mental illness. Personal characteristics associated with resilience comprise optimism, an active or adaptable coping style and the ability toelicit social support. Existing resilience factors can be assessed forby nurses and optimised through interventions when patients with chronic conditions are in care. Representing over 70% of the global health workforce, nurses are well positioned to enact such practice enhancements to facilitate better outcomes for patients.
- Subjects :
- Coping (psychology)
medicine.medical_specialty
Heart disease
business.industry
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Psychological intervention
Resilience, Psychological
Mental illness
medicine.disease
United Kingdom
Social support
Optimism
Chronic Disease
Severity of illness
Quality of Life
Global health
Humans
Medicine
Nurse-Patient Relations
business
Psychiatry
Nursing Process
General Nursing
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Details
- ISSN :
- 20522819 and 09660461
- Volume :
- 22
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- British Journal of Nursing
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....db127691cbbca995dcb3b8b57b718178