The Use of Avoidance Strategies in Coping with Chronic Illness

question 48

Multiple Choice

The use of avoidance strategies in coping with chronic illness

• A) often causes patients to gain less information about their illness.
• B) may be psychologically beneficial early in the coping process.
• C) may prevent the patient from making important lifestyle changes in fighting their illness.
• D) all of the above

---

Definitions:

Thumbwheel Switch

"A rotating switch used to input numeric information into a controller."

Input Module

A hardware component in a control system that receives and processes external signals for use within the system.

BCD

Binary Coded Decimal, a class of binary encodings where each digit of a number is represented by a fixed number of binary bits, commonly four or eight.

PL Output

PL Output refers to the output signals from a Programmable Logic (PL) device or system, controlling various devices based on programmed logic.