Exploration of Health Status, Illness perceptions, coping strategies, and psychological morbidity in stoma patients

Abstract

PURPOSE: We employed the Common Sense Model (CSM) of illness perceptions to examine the relative contribution of illness perceptions, stoma self-effi cacy, and coping strategies in explaining anxiety and depression symptoms in patients with a fecal ostomy. The CSM suggests that the consequences of illness activity, such as psychological distress, are infl uenced by an individual's illness perceptions as well as what coping strategies they engage in. DESIGN: Descriptive, cross-sectional questionnaire-based study. SUBJECTS AND SETTING: One hundred fi fty adults with a stoma (54 males, and 96 females; mean age 44 years) completed an online survey. METHODS: Several instruments were used to measu..