Health, pain and the social environment

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/document/16695 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/document/16695 http://eprints.org/relation/isIndexCodesVersionOf http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/document/16695 archive 4031 disk0/00/00/30/25 2011-12-01 09:18:13 2019-01-23 09:55:21 2011-12-01 09:18:13 thesis show 0 Dennis Nicola Louise Derbyshire Stuart ftp://ubira.bham.ac.uk/eTheses/3024_Dennis/ University of Birmingham Health, pain and the social environment unpub BF HV RC0321 10col_life Since the 1970s the number of people suffering from functional somatic syndromes such as fibromyalgia has increased dramatically. These syndromes are characterised by higher levels of incapacity and disability than can be accounted for by objective medical testing. Here the possibility that socially derived labels and health information are contributing to the incapacity experienced by these patients was investigated. Investigations conducted with healthy people found that the way people perceive themselves as behaving, and whether that behaviour is labelled as healthy, influences how satisfied people are with their own health, and their health in comparison to others. It was also found that people who are labelled as unhealthy are evaluated as having less moral worth than those who are not. Further investigations found that the labels used to understand a painful sensation alter the way people respond to that sensation. Investigations with fibromyalgia patients found that the diagnostic label of fibromyalgia changes the information patients have access to, and therefore the information available to interpret their experiences. It was concluded that incapacity in functional syndromes may be partly driven by people being encouraged by to interpret their experiences in a particularly anxiety-provoking way through information in the environment. 2011-12 2011-06 graduation eng author unchecked This unpublished thesis/dissertation is copyright of the author and/or third parties. The intellectual property rights of the author or third parties in respect of this work are as defined by The Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 or as modified by any successor legislation. Any use made of information contained in this thesis/dissertation must be in accordance with that legislation and must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the permission of the copyright holder. ubira@lists.bham.ac.uk public 357 University of Birmingham School of Psychology d_ph FALSE esrc 2011-12 graduation