After hearing the diagnosis of cancer, a client becomes withdrawn and refuses to talk with friends or family. The nurse realizes this client is demonstrating which type of reaction to stress?
1. Stimulus
2. Response
3. Combination
4. Transaction
Correct Answer: 4
Rationale 1: Stress is defined as a stimulus, a life event, or a set of circumstances that arouses physiological and/or psychological reactions that can increase the individual's vulnerability to illness.
Rationale 2: Stress that is considered a response is defined as the nonspecific response of the body to any kind of demand made upon it.
Rationale 3: Combination is not a type of reaction to stress.
Rationale 4: Stress that is a transaction refers to any event in which environmental demands, internal demands, or both tax or exceed the adaptive resources of an individual, social system, or tissue system. The individual responds to perceived environmental changes with adaptive or coping responses such as being withdrawn.
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