ArticleBMC psychology2019
The potential role of illness expectations in the progression of medical diseases.
Article in BMC psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06509308 (The Role of Expectations in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease), which is not on this map. Cited by 13 papers.
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The Role of Expectations in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) - Development and Validation of a New Tool
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13 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Breathlessness in COPD: linking symptom clusters with brain activity.The European respiratory journal · 2021Article
- Illness Expectations Assessment in People with Asthma: A Tool for Explicit and Implicit Beliefs.Journal of asthma and allergy · 2021Article
- The Importance of Understanding COVID-19: The Role of Knowledge in Promoting Adherence to Protective Behaviors.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
- How people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease perceive their illness: a qualitative study between mind and body.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2020Article
- Exploring perceptions and expectations of COPD patients: A grounded theory approach for personalized therapeutic interventions.Chronic respiratory diseaseArticle
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Abstract
To what extent can one's mind promote direct changes to the body? Can one's beliefs about the body become a physical reality, without mediating effects from behaviors? Specifically, can medical symptoms and the course of a disease be directly affected by a person's mindset about the illness?There is a vast literature about placebo and nocebo effects, that promote physical changes by creating the expectation of a change through a primer (for example, a fake pill). Placebos, however, often imply deception, or at least ambiguity, to be effective. The concept of Illness Expectation describes the expectations, both implicit and explicit, that a person who has received a diagnosis makes about the course of the disease. It can be characterized by different degrees of rigidity, and it is argued here that these expectations can ultimately lead to changes in the disease progression. These changes may happen through behavior modifications, or through a non-behavioral pathway, which may deserve exploration efforts from the scientific literature.
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