Psychosocial Factors And Patient Education

Psychosocial Factors and Patient Education
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Psychosocial Factors and Patient Education
Psychosocial factors impacting healthcare professionals include a stressful work environment, inadequate training, poor social support, more significant patient contact, history of mental or physical health issues, quarantine, high-risk perception, social isolation, lack of resilience, and poor coping mechanisms. These factors influence healthcare professionals’ understanding of the factors that influence a particular illness or health condition. Healthcare professionals play an essential role in mitigating the effect of these factors by extending the necessary professional expertise and support to enhance patient education (Philip & Cherian, 2020). Therefore, psychosocial factors improve healthcare professionals’ understanding of diverse issues and thus provide more patient-centered care and treatment interventions.
Psychosocial factors affecting the patient include social support, active coping (compared to avoidance, prolonged emotions, or passivity), patient’s sense of humor or optimism, positive cognitive appraisal, and acceptance (versus undesirable appraisal including catastrophizing). These factors impact patient education by influencing their behaviors in regards to exercise, arousal reduction, optimal utilization of medication and health resources, and ability to control interpersonal behaviors (e.g., irritability). Within the RISE Model of Resilience factors such as intrapersonal factors (e.g., personality, coping), interpersonal traits (e.g., social support and relationship quality) influence patient’s ability to express resilience, thus playing a significant role in managing and offering a vital approach to guide patient education implementation (Igbinigie et al., 2021).
Personality styles are a set of psychological systems and attributes organized within a person that influences their adaptation and engagement with physical and social environments. In this era of unprecedented emphasis on a shared decision-making framework in healthcare delivery, understanding the role of personality is vital as patients’ healthcare decisions typically determine the safety and quality of the services they receive (Borgen, 2020). Personality styles include deliberators, collaborators, expressors, and directors. Understanding a patient’s personality styles could help cultivate effective provider-patient interactions, thus encouraging more personalized care. Self-perception of the distinct beliefs we hold regarding ourselves significantly influences the types of activities we participate in, the effort we put into the activity, and the possibility of engaging in that activity in the future (Shapka & Khan, 2018). In that way, self-perception can help overweight patients consistently engage in physical exercise, thus enhancing their health outcomes.
The steps of coping with an illness include denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. At the denial stage, the patient could refuse to recognize the diagnosis or engage in exercises that threaten their well-being. The illness could also trigger anger. The patient co...