title: [The patients' perception about their illness: a pilot study].
abstract: This preliminary study aims at inquiring the patients' perceptions about their own illness process. Therefore, 19 clinical inpatients from the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre interviewed. After a qualitative data analysis, it was observed that in a medical consultation there are, at least, two perspectives concerning the illness process. First, the physician's perspective, taking into account systems and organs structural and/or functional abnormalities (disease), and second, the patient's perspective, based on her or his perception of events that occur when getting sick (illness). In addition, the patient's perspective generally presents a preoccupation with the etiology of the disease. Keeping in mind these different viewpoints, it is crucial to establish the medical-patient dialog, aiming at reaching a better relationship between the patient and her/his physician.
authors.affiliation: Dep. de Psiquiat. e Med. Legal, Fac. de Med., Univ. Fed. do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS.
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Machado
authors.forename: L H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Ceitlin
authors.forename: F M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.forename: L R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Soibelman
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Piltcher
authors.forename: V S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Alberti
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gus
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Vasconcellos
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Caleffi
authors.forename: D B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Rocha
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D004194:Disease / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
vernacular_title: Percepções do paciente a respeito de sua doença: estudo piloto.