Managing symptoms in chronic disease: Some dimensions of patients' experience
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Disability Studies
- Vol. 10 (3) , 112-118
- https://doi.org/10.3109/09638288809164127
Abstract
This paper is a review of strategies that patients use to manage their symptoms in chronic conditions, with particular reference to multiple sclerosis. It emphasizes the complex and socially conditioned process through which symptoms come to be recognized and managed by patients. This process is compared and contrasted with that of medical recognition of symptoms. A range of patient-based strategies and their implications is then discussed.Keywords
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