Components of illness representation were associated with self-care and health outcomes, indicating that the cognitiverepresentation of HIV has consequences for effective illness management.
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Research has shown that the perceptions that form the cognitiverepresentation of an illness (illness representation) are fundamental to how persons cope with illness.
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Cognitiverepresentations like this were previously thought to be the sole domain of backboned animals like us, but that might not be the case.