Lecture 2: Illness Scripts

Question 1

What are illness scripts?

Answer 1

Organized mental summary of a knowledge of a disease

• mental cue cards to represent individual diseases
• normal/acceptable variations

Question 2

What are the components of an illness script?

Answer 2

1) Fault
2) Enabling conditions
3) Consequences
4) Time course of disease
5) Management

Question 3

How is the illness script organized?

Answer 3

1) Epidemiology
2) Temporal Course
3) Pathophysiology
4) Clinical Presentation