共用题干 第三篇Acceptance of Chronic IllnessHolding on to hope may not make patients happier as they deal with chronic illnesses or diseases, according to a new study by University of Michigan Health System researchers."Hope is an important part of happiness,"sa

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Acceptance of Chronic Illness

Holding on to hope may not make patients happier as they deal with chronic illnesses or diseases,
according to a new study by University of Michigan Health System researchers.
"Hope is an important part of happiness,"said Peter A.Ubel,M.D.director of the U-M Center for
Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine and one of the authors of the happily hopeless study,"but
there's a dark side of hope.Sometimes,if hope makes people put off getting on with their life,it can get in the
way of happiness."
The results showed' that people do not adapt well to situations if they are believed to be short-term. Ubel and
his co-authors一both from U-M and Carnegie Mellon University一studied patients who had new colostomies:their
colons were removed and they had to have bowel movements in a pouch that lay outside their body.
At the time they received their colostomy,some patients were told that the colostomy was reversible一that
they would undergo a second operation to reconnect their bowels after several months.Others were told that the
colostomy was permanent and that they would never have normal bowel function again. The second group一the one
without hope一reported being happier over the next six months than those with reversible colostomies.
"We think they were happier because they got on with their life. They realized the cards they were
dealt,and recognized that they had no choice but to play with those cards,"said Ubel,who is also a
professor in the Department of Internal Medicine.
"The other group was waiting for their colostomy to be reversed," he added."They contrasted their current
life with the life they hoped to lead,and didn't make the best of their current situation."
"Hopeful messages may not be in the best interests of the patient and may interfere with the patient's
emotional adaptation,"Ubel said."I don't think we should take hope away.But I think we have to be careful
about building up people's hope so much that they put off living their life."

Chronically ill patients may be happier________.
A:if they keep thinking of their past
B:if they believe they'll recover
C:if they put off moving on
D:if they manage to get on with their life