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Learned Response to Chronic Illness
Carrie Jo Braden
PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Dean for Nursing Research
& Director of Doctoral Studies
The University of Texas
Health Science Center |
Braden’s Self Help Model, which says that, “a learned
response to chronic illness indicates how a repertoire
of enabling factors that enhance learning might
mediate responses to the experience of chronicity”
(LeFort, 2000,p 155). For example, the
self-help model has been tested on patients with
Arthritis, Lupus, Breast Cancer, and HIV/AIDS
patients. The self-help model has important
implications for nursing interventions in the clinical
setting. It is a theoretical explanation to account
for the process of change.
The Braden's Self-Help Model
includes six variables:
- perceived severity of illness
- limitation
- uncertainty
- enabling skill
- self-help
- and life quality
These were measured using a
specified tool according to each component. For
example, the perceived severity of illness
could be measured with the
McGill Pain Questionnaire-Short Form, which lists
fifteen word descriptors and is rated on an intensity
scale.
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Website:
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Carrie Jo Braden - Faculty Profile, The
University of Texas. Health Science Center.
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Learned Response to Chronic Illness Experience -
Carrie Jo Braden, PhD, RN, FAAN. Associate Dean for
Research. Program of Research: Learned Response to
Chronic Illness Experience - Testing of Self-Help
Model & Self-Help Promoting Interventions across
Different Chronic Illness Conditions.
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MESA: Center for Health Disparities - Director:
Carrie Jo Braden, PhD, RN, FAAN. The MESA (Michigan
En San Antonio) Center for Health Disparities is a
collaborative research effort by the University of
Michigan School of Nursing and The University of
Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of
Nursing that focuses on elimination of disparities
in health promotion and restoration.
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Selected Publications:
- Braden CJ. (1976) Community
Health: A Systems Approach. Publisher: Prentice Hall
- Braden CJ. (1984) The focus and
limits of community health nursing. Publisher:
Appleton-Century-Crofts.
- Braden CJ. (1990). A test of the
Self-Help Model: Learned response to chronic illness
experience. Nursing Research 39:42-47.
- Braden CJ, McGlone K, Pennington
F. (1993). Specific psychosocial and behavioral
outcomes from the Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Self-Help Course. Health Education Quarterly
20)(1):29-41.
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