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Illness experience and children's concepts of health and illness
Author(s) -
EISER CHRISTINE,
PATTERSON DAVID,
TRIPP JOHN H.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
child: care, health and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1365-2214
pISSN - 0305-1862
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2214.1984.tb00174.x
Subject(s) - sociology of health and illness , illness severity , relevance (law) , interview , illness behavior , medicine , acute illness , psychology , psychiatry , severity of illness , health care , sociology , political science , anthropology , law , economics , economic growth
Summary The effects of chronic illness on children's knowledge of health and illness were investigated by interviewing 57 children with diabetes and the same number of healthy children of similar age and background. There were few differences between the groups in their definitions of health or knowledge of the cause of illness. The data are discussed in terms of their theoretical relevance to the development of ideas about health and illness.