What were your first symptoms of this illness?
Onset Diagnosis Patient Status Recovery
The Personal Meaning of a Given Illness
1. What were your first symptoms of this illness?
2. What do you think was the extent of this health problem?
3. What do you believe caused this problem?
4. How did this illness fit with your image of health?
5. Did you see this as a life- threatening illness?
6. Why did you seek help? 7. From whom did you seek help? 8. Where did you go for help—
initially and later?