Stress and depression are two of the most critically significant factors affecting patients’ lifestyles inside and outside the family. Thus, stress is the body’s response to a certain “blow” or “pressure” from the outside. As a rule, this condition manifests itself due to prolonged experiences and negative emotions, which result in more serious and destructive consequences. For example, prolonged stress and deep experiences result in depression – a more severe emotional state.
These factors significantly affect the course of certain diseases and affect patients’ behavior, emotions, and feelings outside of family life. For instance, a person experiencing stress and depression develops the risk of several pathological processes. Such conditions affect the health of blood vessels and the stomach; they cause asthma, hypertension, and anorexia – this is not a complete list. Patients are more vulnerable to various infections in this situation, and the immune system is weakened. Accordingly, new types of diseases appear, and treatment of existing ones is delayed for a long time. In addition, it has been proven that stressful situations cause risks of developing chronic diseases, deaths, and increased mortality (Chiang, 2018). Moreover, in such emotional states, an individual loses interest in everything, decreases vital activity and productivity of thinking, and develops a sense of his uselessness, uselessness. Thus, a patient cannot implement high-quality, effective, and productive work and activity in some areas.
It is also worth noting that the above factors may manifest themselves at several stages of the course of a certain disease. Therefore, for example, stress and depression during diagnosis manifest themselves in a pronounced form and persistently present for at least two weeks. Accordingly, during treatment, the signs of these factors are very diverse and vary depending on the form of the course of the disease.
A competent nurse can intervene in such cases and eliminate factors that negatively affect the patient based on such factors and phenomena. Primarily, social and psychological support is the surest way to solve the problem at any stage of the disease. Hence, the social and communicative impact of the patient’s condition on a nurse practitioner can have a strong influence on a wide range of aspects related to physiology and behavior (Karelina & DeVries, 2011). Consequently, special care, necessary support, and increased attention to the situations of a sick person will help to some extent eliminate factors such as stress and depression.
References
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