SynthesisResearch in nursing & health2020
A systematic review of illness representation clusters in chronic conditions.
Synthesis in Research in nursing & health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The social determinants of health-related quality of life among people with chronic disease: a systematic literature review.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2025Pooled it
- Illness Perception Clusters Moderated the Association Between HIV-related Stigma and Resilience in Mother-Child Dyads Living with HIV: An Actor-Partner Interdependence Moderation Approach.AIDS and behavior · 2026Article
- Self-Care and Illness Perception in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Identifying Adaptive and Maladaptive Profiles Through Person-Centered Analysis.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2026Article
- Illness Perception and Psychosocial Adjustment in Brain Tumor Patients and Their Family Caregivers: An Actor-Partner Interdependence Model Analysis.Cancer medicine · 2026Article
- Illness Representations and Quality of Life Among Informal Cancer Caregivers: Examining the Role of Social Support.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Reframing Chronicity in Research and Care: A Patient-Informed Framework of Pain Adaptation.Journal of pain research · 2026Article
- Protocol for development of a checklist and guideline for transparent reporting of cluster analyses (TRoCA).BMJ open · 2025Article
- Can illness representations be used to understand pain experienced in breast cancer survivorship-a cross-sectional study.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2025Article
- Prospective Associations Between Personality Traits and Major Depressive Disorder Symptom Severity: The Mediating Role of Illness Representations.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2024Article
- Gestational diabetes perception profiles based on attachment style: a cross-sectional study.Acta diabetologica · 2024Article
- Barriers to self-management engagement among community-dwelling older adults with mild cognitive impairment: a qualitative study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Prognostic value of illness perception on changes in knee pain among elderly individuals: Two-year results from the Frederiksberg Cohort study.Osteoarthritis and cartilage open · 2023Article
- Depression and anxiety mediate the relationship between illness representations and perceived distress in patients with chronic pain.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Effect of social support on illness perception in patients with atrial fibrillation during "Blanking Period": Mediating role of sense of mastery.Nursing open · 2023Article
- Article
- Profiles of adult people in a Spanish sample with chronic pain: Cluster analysis.Journal of advanced nursing · 2022Article
- Evaluation of a Digital Self-management Platform for Patients With Chronic Illness in Primary Care: Qualitative Study of Stakeholders' Perspectives.JMIR formative research · 2022Article
- Psychological processes in adapting to dementia: Illness representations among the IDEAL cohort.Psychology and aging · 2022Article
- Distinct Illness Representation Profiles Are Associated With Anxiety in Women Testing Positive for Human Papillomavirus.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2022Article
- Gender and Emotional Representation Matter: Own Illness Beliefs and Their Relationship to Obesity.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
Abstract
A person's beliefs about their chronic condition (illness representations) influence health and treatment outcomes. Recently, researchers have used clustering approaches to identify subgroups with different patterns of beliefs about their illness, with some subgroups having more favorable health outcomes than others. To date, these findings have not been synthesized. The purpose of this systematic review of the literature was to synthesize results of studies that used clustering approaches to analyze illness representation in chronic disease populations, in order to characterize the clusters and their relationship to health outcomes. Using Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines we searched CINAHL, PsycInfo, and PubMed. To be included, studies had to be (a) peer reviewed, (b) in English, (c) performing a cluster analysis (CA), latent class analysis (LCA), or latent profile analysis (LPA), (d) using only illness representation (IR) subscales to form clusters, (e) measuring illness representation with the Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R), (f) in a chronic condition sample, and (g) measuring health-related outcomes. Twelve studies were included. Across studies, the number of clusters found ranged from two to three. In all studies, an association was found between illness representation group and at least one of their health outcomes. Illness representation clusters associated with favorable outcomes usually included lower disease-related consequences, fewer symptoms, less negative emotion, and a more stable disease pattern. The results of this review indicate that the relationship between the patterns of the illness representation profiles and health outcomes transcend diseases. Additionally, some dimensions of illness representation may be more important drivers of group membership than others.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.