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Appraisal delay
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Time between recognizing that a symptom exists and deciding that is is serious
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Behavioral delay
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TIme between deciding to seek treatment and actually doing so
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Commonsense model of illness
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Model maintaining that people hold implicit commonsense beliefs about their symptoms and illnesses that result in organized illness representations or schemas and that influence their treatment decisions and adherence
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Delay behavior
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Act of delaying seeking treatment for recognized symptoms
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Illness delay
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Time between recognizing that a symptom implies an illness and the decision to seek treatment
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Illness representations
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Organized set of beliefs about at illness or type of illness, including its nature, cause, duration, and consequences
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Lay referral network
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Informal network of family and friends who help an individual interpret and treat a disorder before the individual seeks formal medical treatment
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Medical delay
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Delay in treating symptoms, which results from problems within the medical system, such as faulty diagnosis or lost test results
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Medical students' disease
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Relabeling of symptoms of fatigue and exhaustion as particular illness resulting from learning about that illness; called medical students' disease because overworked medical students are vulnerable to this labeling effect
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Secondary gains
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Benefits of being treated for illness, including the ability to rest, to be freed from unpleasant tasks, and to be taken care of by others
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Somaticizers
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People who express distress and conflict through bodily symptoms
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Worried well
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Individuals free from illness who are nonetheless concerned about their physical state and frequently and inappropriately use medical services
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Summary (1)
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The detection of symptoms, their interpretation, and the use of health services are all heavily influenced by psychological processes
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Summary (2)
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Personality and culture, focus of attention, the presence of distracting or involving activities, mood, the salience of illness or symptoms, and individual differences in the tendency to monitor threats influence whether a symptom is noticed. Interpretation of symptoms is influenced by prior experience and expectations about their likelihood and meaning
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Summary (3)
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Illness schemas (which identify the type of disease and its consequences, causes, duration, and cure) influence how people interpret their symptoms and whether they act on them by seeking medical attention
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