Wk 10: Chronic illness

Chronic diseases
- Generally considered those lasting 3+ months
- In general, they are not prevented by vaccines
- Are not 'naturally' recovered from
- Many are progressive with no real 'cure' so may last a lifetime.
- Most are non communicable (not caused by infectious agents)
Responses to major stress
- 'onset' of health events
- 4 trajectories of depression after onset
- Emergent depressions: were fine before then depressed after diagnoses (12%)
- Resilient: fine and stayed fine (64%)
- Chronic depression went down
- Depressed: improved
Multiple health conditions: vulnerable group is bigger
Depression and anxiety

Based on large metanalysis, in palliative-care settings prevalence estimated at
Study on breast cancer
- 55% resilient
- 23% not great when diagnosed but then got better
- 19.5% not good quality of life and maintained that
- Last group 2% low and then got very low

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Wk 10: Chronic illness

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Wk 10: Chronic illness

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2018-06-18T16:40:59Z