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Health and health practice
Published in Justin Amery, The Integrated Practitioner, 2022
Even though we may not be able to say what health ‘is’, by viewing from different perspectives, we can at least suggest what health may be seen ‘as’. From a personal perspective: health as a personal sense of existence or being, which is somehow positive (for example, as wholeness, as well-being, as ability as awareness).From a cultural perspective: health as a socially constructed entity that is experienced and managed within and through cultural understandings and traditions (for example, when we agree someone is ‘too sick to work’, ‘disabled’, ‘mentally unwell’, or ‘swinging the lead’).From the perspective of individual ‘other’: health as an ‘objective’ dysfunction at one or more of the relational levels of existence (from atomic, through molecular, cellular, organic, physiological, individual, social, environmental or ecological).From the perspective of multiple ‘others’: health as a condition which either enables us to reach (or disables us from reaching) desired goals.From a ‘background’ perspective: health as a manifestation and/or expression of the indefinable nothingness of which we have no knowledge.
Communication: a person-centred approach
Published in Nicola Neale, Joanne Sale, Developing Practical Nursing Skills, 2022
Consider how being self-aware might be important for you when carrying out practical skills. For example, if you have had an argument at home, you may understand why you feel impatient with a person who appears to lack motivation to assist with their hygiene needs. Acknowledging your emotional state will help you to understand your feelings and the subsequent effects on your caregiving. This increased awareness may highlight a need to adapt your behaviour and it is through being self-aware that you may realise that you could be making a situation worse. Healthcare professionals should develop an understanding of how and why they behave in certain circumstances because, the crucial point about self-awareness is its impact on our communication with others, and how it can help us recognise the effects of our behaviour (Rasheed et al. 2019).
Learning from Clients/Patients to Advance Education and Scholarship
Published in Connie White Delaney, Charlotte A. Weaver, Joyce Sensmeier, Lisiane Pruinelli, Patrick Weber, Deborah Trautman, Kedar Mate, Howard Catton, Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century – Embracing a Digital World, 3rd Edition, Book 2, 2022
Jennie C. De Gagne, Katrina Green, Margaret H. Sturdivant
Many health systems and advocacy groups have adapted the use of portals to give the patient and community a reliable access point to needed information. Patient portals often contain libraries of patient education materials that include written materials designed according to best practices of health literacy (e.g., complex terms are defined, icons or images are used to promote the content, and statements are action-oriented and patient-centered). Organizations can ensure that materials are based on current evidence to help control misinformation of medical topics. Short videos focusing on one or two key messages are especially effective for patients with low literacy. Many patient education libraries include images, symptom checkers and other patient-friendly resources. These materials are often available on a smartphone app for the patient portal. This is one approach for health systems to provide organizational health literacy for patients, although building awareness of these resources continues to be a challenge.
The art of seeing: The impact of a visual arts course on medical student wellbeing
Published in Medical Teacher, 2023
Ariella R. Noorily, Anne Willieme, Mikaela Belsky, Katie Grogan
Self-awareness describes a person’s ability to identify, describe, and understand the origins of their own emotions (Richards et al. 2010; Chaukos et al. 2017). In this study, we measured self-awareness using the SSAS, and found that students improved in this domain. When the scale was broken into its component parts, students demonstrated increased private self-awareness and environmental self-awareness scores, and decreases in the public self-awareness score. This pattern of sub-scores demonstrates a more nuanced improvement in attitudes that contribute to wellbeing. According to the article validating the SSAS, a high level of private self-awareness and awareness of immediate surroundings is associated with positive, healthy behavior. However, a high level of public self-awareness results in more negative feelings, including ‘discomfort and evaluation apprehension,’ which may motivate individuals to ‘modify their behavior to meet the perceived expectations of others, even if this behavior is not consistent with their internal standards’ (Govern and Marsch 2001). Thus, the post test scores indicate not only increased levels of self-awareness, but also less concern about judgment from others.
Brain regions associated with olfactory dysfunction in first episode psychosis patients
Published in The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 2023
Semra Etyemez, Zui Narita, Marina Mihaljevic, Jennifer M. Coughlin, Gerald Nestadt, Frederick C. Jr. Nucifora, Thomas W. Sedlak, Nicola G. Cascella, Finn-Davis Batt, Jun Hua, Andreia Faria, Koko Ishizuka, Vidyulata Kamath, Kun Yang, Akira Sawa
The SFG corresponds to Brodmann area 8 (BA8) and partially to BA6 in the present segmentation (Figure S1). The unique involvement of this specific brain area in SZ patients with primary negative symptoms has been underscored and particularly a reduction in grey matter volume in SFG has been reported (Cascella et al. 2010; Leung et al. 2011). We now provide novel evidence that indicates the relation of SFG with olfactory function in FEP patients. The SFG region is described to be involved in self-awareness and emotion (Fried et al. 1998; Goldberg et al. 2006). Self-awareness is defined as the cognitive ability to distinguish between the self and others and broadly requires the use of perception, recognition, and differentiation. These cognitive processes (self-awareness and social cognition) are similar to those required in odour discrimination task, requiring perception, recognition, and differentiation. Although there are many other ways of interpretation, we provocatively state that our finding of olfactory dysfunction associated with SFG might have a relationship with self-awareness and related brain function. Further studies are warranted.
‘Weaving lifestyle habits’: Complex pathways to health for persons at risk for stroke
Published in Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2022
Emelie Mälstam, Eric Asaba, Elisabet Åkesson, Susanne Guidetti, Ann-Helen Patomella
Health literacy, that refers to both a person’s health knowledge and awareness and a person’s ability and process to understand and use information to promote, maintain or improve their health [37], has for a long time been considered important for having and sustaining multiple healthy lifestyle habits [38]. In drawing a parallel to health literacy, literacy of health and occupations has been described as a strong facilitator for shaping healthy lifestyle habits in the present study and this was promoted, as in several other occupation focussed programmes [12–17], through occupational self-analysis in tandem with participating in and experiencing occupations. By actively engaging in and experiencing occupations in the prevention programme, and in between sessions, the participants gained literacy in how their occupations interrelate with health. Participants expressed that this made them more engaged in their overall health and even risk-reducing occupations became engaging.