Psycho-Logical
Illnesses follow their own sense-making logic.
Patients, their world, their illnesses
Research meeting people, life and health
Diseases alter the framework and fabric of life: they bring along anxieties and worries about how to carry on; they concern self image, position at home, attitude and role of the immediate family, on job performance, image and reactions of the social environment.
Patients are people in burdensome life circumstances. Everybody knows how already toothaches or a common cold can take over the scepter of daily life, how then with severe or chronic conditions.
This listing already highlights the socio-psychological dimensions involved, plus taking into account the physical sensitivities and medical treatment and care contexts.
It thus makes much sense to specifically focus on the patients and to understand which care interventions are relevant and helpful for them, their contexts and relations; and more over which ones are doable from a societal and healthcare economy position.
Coping with illnesses and their psycho-socials effects to some degree has always been a matter of destiny and character abilities. But today’s socio-cultural framework conditions and the global increase in psychological stress reactions or illnesses (such as anxieties or depression) remind how contrary to the medical advances, psychological dimensions (and foremost in common diseases) are directing lifestyles. Illness images where their intricate, long-term intertwining of stress, psychological problems, lifestyles and disease states feels inextricably are of particular critical dynamics.
The circular logic of complying – doing what is good for you or good for yourself?
How and whether or not patients integrate treatment options into their life presents a wide and dazzling field for compliance research. Like anywhere in life, treatment options can be put into action with compliance, abusive or even damaging. This also sets parameters in the evaluation of patient benefit argumentations.
It also profoundly touches our concept of “illness”. With the lifestyle co-caused illnesses such as diabetes type 2 for example, the sense-making logic and its’ lifestyle-“price” are evident. Our studies show how much illnesses in general are much more a dynamic process outcome, then a hard to undo result of life or of interim solution power for the personal ecosystem – not just something to simply avoid or get rid off.
Role Shift
Personalized healthcare means putting people at the center and redefining their traditional recipient role to an empowered actor role with more involvement and more responsibilities in the management of their personal health. It needs to find out, what people actually feel about it and how they can or want to take advantage of it and stay with it so they start building a path to improving their health.
Re-strategizing for companies
Companies re-strategizing and innovating their healthcare involvement are now looking at a dense and psychological-co-driven patient world scenario.
“Holistic” and “Ecosystem” are the terms of the time
Psycho-Logic of illness profiles
Psychology researches illness profiles as congenial sense constructions in respect to their impact by fate, lifestyle, expressiveness and illness value.
Psycho-Logical Bridging
The gap between traditional medical treatment-focussed and patient-focussed care concepts is widening. It needs a socio-psychological grammar of how this functions.
Public Perception Research Expertise
We come from the know-how of thinking “holistic” as a research system, in-depth psychology and precise dynamics pattern of how the relevant factors interact.
Our activities here span through all the major issues shown. Our morphological psychology model framework converges the many different stakeholder perspectives, the relevant dimensions and methods, from qualitative, online to the range of quantitative and technical solutions.
Patient Eco System
- Illness and treatment within the patient ecosystem life situation
- Patient ecosystem, persona, lifestyle, mindset and socio-cultural factors
- Patient Journey and Day in the Life Research
Treatment Outcome
- Patients’ treatment regime progression patterns
- Treatment and adherence
Program Evaluation
- Patient Programs Evaluation Studies
Other interesting points provides our article on patient care applying psychological Morphology.
