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A View of Asthma Bronchiale-Psychosocial Problems
VACKOVÁ, Sabina
I chose as the theme of my bachalor´s work in order to outline the influence of this illness on psychosocial feelings of patients.I pose a question in my work whether care for patients is fully understood and sufficient from the psychosocial point of view.My profession is a nurse and I meet and help people suffering from this illness quite often.While talking with them,I found out that their troubles were often of psychosocial character and resulted from lack of information about their illness.A majority of patients did not cope with the fact that asthma is a chronic illness and will accompany them all their lives.Asthma interferes not only in the life of a particular patient,but above all in the lives of his family members.Support and help on the part of the family is important for the patient to accept his illness and to learn to live with it.Asthma in alll age groups has adverse consequences in the social area too.In chidren,it reduces the chance to fit in with a children´s collective and increases absence from school,later it limits freedom in choosing a career and decreases chances to assert oneself both in the personal and social area. the extent of information provided by health workers has a great influence on the correctly conducted treatment and preventing complications.Nowadays,the picture of asthma in changing a great deal as further modern,even more effective medicaments and their combinations are launched.The transfer of a certain part of responsibility to the patient himself requires,of course,more information and knowledge on his part.For experts this not only means a necessity to train themselves constantly and to follow the development of science and research,but also to ensure a permanent supply of fresh information to the patient.
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