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uncertainty in illness: a standalone construct

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Nursing

a person's inability to assign definite meaning to illness-related events, arising when cues are ambiguous, complex, unpredictable or lacking information.

In nursing, uncertainty in illness refers to a person's inability to assign definite meaning to illness-related events, arising when cues are ambiguous, complex, unpredictable or lacking information. This meaning comes from Mishel (1988) in Image: the Journal of Nursing Scholarship.[1]

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References

Mishel, M. H. (1988). Uncertainty in Illness. Image: the Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 20(4), 225-232. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1547-5069.1988.tb00082.x

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