A nurse must take into consideration illness behaviors of patients. Which is an internal variable the nurse should assess?
a. Social support
b. Visibility of symptoms
c. Accessibility of the health care system
d. Nature of the illness
D
Internal variables influence the way patients behave when they are ill. These are a patient's per-ceptions of symptoms and the nature of the illness. External variables influencing a patient's ill-ness behavior include the visibility of symptoms, social group, cultural background, economic variables, accessibility of the health care system, and social support.
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