"Sick Role" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Set of expectations that exempt persons from responsibility for their illness and exempt them from usual responsibilities.
| Descriptor ID |
D012803
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.829.316.616.751
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| Concept/Terms |
Sick Role- Sick Role
- Role, Sick
- Roles, Sick
- Sick Roles
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2008 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Sick Role" by people in Profiles.
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Badr H, Carmack CL, Kashy DA, Cristofanilli M, Revenson TA. Dyadic coping in metastatic breast cancer. Health Psychol. 2010 Mar; 29(2):169-80.
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Badr H, Taylor CL. Sexual dysfunction and spousal communication in couples coping with prostate cancer. Psychooncology. 2009 Jul; 18(7):735-46.
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Paskett ED, Herndon JE, Day JM, Stark NN, Winer EP, Grubbs SS, Pavy MD, Shapiro CL, List MA, Hensley ML, Naughton MA, Kornblith AB, Habin KR, Fleming GF, Bittoni MA. Applying a conceptual model for examining health-related quality of life in long-term breast cancer survivors: CALGB study 79804. Psychooncology. 2008 Nov; 17(11):1108-20.
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Rovner BW, Casten RJ. Preventing late-life depression in age-related macular degeneration. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2008 Jun; 16(6):454-9.
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Dickerson F, Brown CH, Fang L, Goldberg RW, Kreyenbuhl J, Wohlheiter K, Dixon L. Quality of life in individuals with serious mental illness and type 2 diabetes. Psychosomatics. 2008 Mar-Apr; 49(2):109-14.
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Mago R, Gomez JP, Gupta N, Kunhel EJ. Anxiety in medically ill patients. Curr Psychiatry Rep. 2006 Jun; 8(3):228-33.
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Kash KM, Mago R, Duffany S, Kunkel EJ. Psycho-oncology: review and update. Curr Psychiatry Rep. 2006 Jun; 8(3):246-52.
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Badr H, Basen-Engquist K, Carmack Taylor CL, de Moor C. Mood states associated with transitory physical symptoms among breast and ovarian cancer survivors. J Behav Med. 2006 Oct; 29(5):461-75.
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Pickering TG. Now we are sick: labeling and hypertension. J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich). 2006 Jan; 8(1):57-60.
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Sobel RM, Markov D. The impact of anxiety and mood disorders on physical disease: the worried not-so-well. Curr Psychiatry Rep. 2005 Jun; 7(3):206-12.