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Wound Healing Is Related to Our Belief About Time
It really is mind-over-matter when it comes to rates of wound healing and a patient’s perception of how long it should take.
All of us have beliefs that lie under our conscious awareness, and they control more than we know. Now, a new hypothesis about wound healing and its relationship to our beliefs about time is being offered.
The traditional health belief variables of perceived susceptibility, severity, benefits, and barriers are proposed as independent variables in a revised explanatory model that integrates self-efficacy into the Health Belief Model. Incentive to behave (health motivation) is also included in the model, and locus of control is not explicitly included because it is thought to be incorporated within other elements of the model.
According to the HBM, people are more likely to adopt the target health behavior if they believe the potential illness is serious, that they are highly susceptible to it, and that the benefits of engaging in the behavior outweigh the associated barriers.
There is an evident growing appreciation for how psychological theories can be applied to areas of medicine. One of the areas is wound healing and how it might be associated with the patient’s perception of the time it takes to heal. Such a belief would play a prominent role in any rehab…
