Which psychosocial domain includes grief, depression, and loss of independence?

• A. Education impact
• B. Psychosocial impact
• C. Cognition in MD
• D. ADL impact

Answer: (B)

Grief, depression, and loss of independence reflect how a chronic disease affects a person’s emotional and social life. The psychosocial domain covers emotional well-being, mental health, social roles, relationships, and how people cope and adapt to changes in function and independence. Feeling grief over lost abilities, experiencing depression related to ongoing limitations, and adjusting to reliance on others all sit in this area because they center on mood, identity, and social functioning.

Education impact would concern schooling opportunities, cognitive in nature would involve how thinking and memory are affected, and ADL impact focuses on the ability to perform daily self-care tasks. So the experiences described are best placed in the psychosocial impact.