Health behavior
Health behavior Health behavior
5. Situational-adaptation model(illness behavior by Angelo Alonzo)• Thesis: each individual copes with ‘multiple problems inmultiple situations’• 4 types of illness behavior: everyday, acute, chronic, andin life-threatening situations‣ Everyday illness behavior‣ Concept of restraint‣ Notion of compromise role: 4 types of situations‣ Type 1: no symptoms and signs of disease‣ Type 2: potential symptoms and signs of disease, psychological orsocial distress (danger, pain) or injuries, presently or in the future
‣ Type 3: leisure time oriented towards symptoms and signs ofdisease‣ Type 4: diagnostic, disease-oriented‣ Acute illness behavior‣ an individual observes reduction in his/her own ability torestraint symptoms and signs of disease in a series of situations‣ an individual should increase the frequency and duration oftype-3 situations (‘action interruptions’), should stopparticipating in some situations, involvement in type-4 therapysituations‣ Chronic illness behavior‣ Adaptation - state of living ‘less-than-normal’ - with constantsymptoms and signs of disease
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5. Situational-adaptation model(illness <strong>behavior</strong> by Angelo Alonzo)• Thesis: each individual copes with ‘multiple problems inmultiple situations’• 4 types of illness <strong>behavior</strong>: everyday, acute, chronic, andin life-threatening situations‣ Everyday illness <strong>behavior</strong>‣ Concept of restraint‣ Notion of compromise role: 4 types of situations‣ Type 1: no symptoms and signs of disease‣ Type 2: potential symptoms and signs of disease, psychological orsocial distress (danger, pain) or injuries, presently or in the future