Alexander Segall proposed that the sick role includes three rights and privileges and three responsibilities. Which of these factors is a responsibility of people who have adopted the sick role?
A) Making decisions about one's health-related issues
B) Making an attempt to get better
C) The duty to perform everyday chores
D) The duty to depend on other people for assistance
Question 2
The five beliefs defined as components of Leventhal's model of disease conceptualization are found to predict patients' distress levels, whether or when they will seek health care, and how well they will manage their disease. Petrie and colleagues' research with asthma patients found that giving patients accurate information about those five components also improved which of them?
A) The amounts of distress patients experience
B) Whether or not patients seek out health care
C) How well the patients manage their disease
D) How soon the patients will seek health care
Golden Alexander
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