Emotional dimension (“feel”): connected to the need
to psychologically and emotionally manage (and
accept) the onset of the disease and new life
condition linked to it;
Cognitive dimension (“think”): connected to the
need to know, understand and make sense of: the
disease, its treatments, its possible developments, its
monitoring;
Conative dimension (“act”): connected to all the
activities the patient acts out to face the disease,
basing on its emotional and cognitive reaction