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Impact on life quality in patients with vitiligo
MALČICOVÁ, Jana
This bachelor thesis focuses on vitiligo and its impact on the life quality of patients suffering the disease. Vitiligo is a relatively frequent acquired disorder which causes depigmentation of parts of the skin. The depigmented spots can be of different shapes and extent. Vitiligo is a chronic disease process and the actual cause of the disease is still unknown. One of the presumable causes is the immune system; this is why it is not easily cured. The treatment is a long-term process and requires great patience from both the patient and the medical team. Vitiligo is a major problem for the patient as it disturbs their physical appearance and thus influences the psychological well being of the patient; so vitiligo can also have a psychosocial impact. In our research we set two main goals. The first of them was to define the role of nurses in the treatment of vitiligo. The other goal was to enquire about the impact of vitiligo on the life quality of the patients. For the research we formulated two questions: 1.What is the role of a nurse in the treatment of a vitiligo patient? 2. What is the impact of vitiligo on the life quality of the patient? For the empirical part of the bachelor thesis we used a qualitative research method based on a semi-structured interview. The first interrogated group consisted of four nurses from the South Bohemian and the South Moravian region; these nurses work in dermatology centres that offer phototherapeutic treatment. The other group comprised patients suffering vitiligo; we interviewed three patients from Austria and one patient from the Czech Republic. The respondents suffering from vitiligo were also to complete a Dermatological Index of Life Quality questionnaire. The questionnaire was then evaluated according to a key and the results were filled into a chart. The interviews consisted of 18 questions for the vitiligo patients and 10 questions for the caring nurses. The interviews were recorded on a dictaphone and later written down and brought into a Word document. For the evaluation of the data we used the open coding method using a pencil and paper. After the data analysis we defined the following categories: The Role of Nurses with the subcategory Alterations to the Role of Nurses, category Psychological Support with subcategories Attitude of Nurses, Psychical Needs of Patients, Alterations in Psychical Condition of the Patient, category Reaction to Detection of Vitiligo with the subcategories Reaction of the Patient, Reaction of Patient´s Environment, category Psychological Problems with the subcategories Patients´ Feelings and Solution to the Problems, category First Visit to the Doctor and category Significance of Vitiligo. The research suggests that the most important aspect of the nurses´ help during the patient´s treatment is the educational aspect. The other aspects are in the opinion of our respondents the health care providing aspect, and the help of a nurse as a manager. The evaluation of the life quality questionnaire brought the following results: two respondents saw only a small impact of the disease on their life quality. One respondent stated a slightly worsened quality of life and in one of the respondents the life quality was worsened significantly. According to the interviews, the vitiligo patients are slightly restrained during activities when exposed to sun due to an easy sunburnt. None of the respondents stated an influence on their relationships or hobbies. Two respondents mentioned worries concerning finding a partner and establishing a family. Our research showed that the greatest impact of vitiligo is on the psyche of the patient. Thus we assume that a psychological support should be an essential component of the treatment. I would like to present the results of this bachelor thesis as a review in some professional magazine. I would also be glad if the thesis could be an inspiration to a quantitative research on the topic.
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Influence of Social Support on the quality of life of a family with disabled child.
KOPSOVÁ, Lenka
This Bachelorś thesis discusses the influence of social support on the quality of life of families with a disabled child. The theoretical section covers the following topics: family; the definition and types of disability; the definition of family life quality; social support (types, functions and effects), and it also specifies the existing sources of help available through social services and social benefits, which are not covered by insurance. The practical section of the thesis characterises the social support from a subjektive point of view. This thesis shows how the social support is perceived and accepted by families with disabled children and also how the social support influences their quality of life from the point of view of participation in public, cultural and working life.
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Effect of sheltered workshops and social therapeutic workshops on life quality of people with severe mental illness.
ZOUHAROVÁ, Alexandra
The bachelor thesis is concentrated on the effect of sheltered workshops and social therapeutic workshops on life quality of people with severe mental illness. The aim of this work is to determine social and working skills gained by people in workshop, what the workshop brought them and if the attendance to the workshop contributed to improvement of their life quality. This work is divided into two parts. The theoretical part informs about the basic of working rehabilitation history and deals with life quality. The following part contains brief characteristic of schizophrenia. The practical part contains informations about Sdružení Práh, describes the sheltered workshop and social terapeutic workshop. There is layed out the goal of this work, specified the hipothesises, described the method of survey, the results and evaluation of questionnaire.
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Quality of life families mentally disabled persons
ABESKOVÁ, Žaneta
We usually view a family as small social group, with its basic characteristics to be mutual co-operation of all of its individual members. They are inter-connected by a variety of relations. As each member of a family is an individual and original personality, even the created family makes an individual, original and unrepeatable social organism. This applies to each different family {--} even to families with a handicapped child. This is to say, coexistence in one or another family has the same basic characteristics. When talking of life quality of people, we may have in mind different extent of perception of a man. It is possible to talk about life quality of an individual man as well as life quality of several people, e.g. life quality in a family. The aim of the graduation thesis was to find out the life quality of families living with an individual with slight mental disorder (IQ 50-60). To find out their difference from families without any mentally handicapped individual. All of that using the PedsQL questionnaire, which is a sufficient criterion for the problems fixation. Information needed for the graduation thesis processing was obtained on the basis of specialised material studies. Quantity research was performed to map the families life quality. Data collection was performed using the questioning method {--} the questionnaire method. The questionnaire designed by James Walter Varni Ph.D. was distributed to two groups {--} families with a slightly mentally handicapped individual (IQ 50-69) and families with children, without any mentally handicapped individual. The questionnaire contained 8 areas, in which the individual families could encounter any problem. The aim of the graduation thesis was fulfilled and the research confirmed the hypothesis that life quality of a family with slightly mentally handicapped individual with his/her intelligence quotient in the range of 50-60 points, differs from life quality of a family without any mentally handicapped individual. Some questions of the questionnaire provably demonstrated lower quality of life in families living with a slightly mentally handicapped individual.
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The Quality of Life by Clients at Seniors Houses " Pod Lipami" in Smečno, Kladno´s Region
PINKASOVÁ, Šárka
The title of my thesis is The Quality of Life of Elderly Women and Men at the Senior House ?Pod Lipami? in Kladno District. I chose this topic because the ageing of population is becoming a problem which cannot be ignored and which has become a phenomenon of our time. It affects individuals as well as whole community. The topic of my bachelor thesis is focused on the issue of senior life quality. The theoretical part of this thesis describes demographic ageing, the terms of old age and ageing, then it deals with various aspects of ageing, terms of geriatrics and gerontology, health conditions of elderly people, quality of life and its determinants which affect senior life. The theoretical part is based on the knowledge of professional literature. The thesis deals with areas of ageing and old age, as well as with terms such as theoretical determination of life quality and senior care. The practical part is focused on my own examination and evaluation of senior life quality.
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Life quality of patients suffering from multiple sclerosis
OHÁŇKOVÁ, Jana
A multiple cerebrospinal sclerosis is one of the most frequent neurologic diseases affecting individuals in the productive age, more often women. The thesis aims to describe the life quality of patients suffering from multiple sclerosis. To detect whether due to the multiple sclerosis the qualities of life change. If this would be the case then the goal is to reveal which aspects the changes affect. Another objective was to establish whether the life quality of multiple sclerosis patients decreases depending on the period of time since the diagnosis was made, that is on the duration of the disease. The theoretical part of the thesis is dedicated to describing the disease in general, signs, symptoms, prognosis, and treatment. I also deal with defining the term of life quality and its clarification, I also discuss the social-legal problems of the disease. The practical part of the thesis implements both qualitative and quantitative methods. The qualitative method included a semi-standardized interview. The quantitative method incorporated interrogative research using a SF-36 questionnaire about the quality of life conditioned by health. The information detected from the semi-standardized interview (the qualitative part) served as the basis for defining hypotheses for the quantitative part of the thesis. The following hypotheses were defined: H1: ``The quality of life in patients diagnosed with multiple sclerosis is lower than in the general population" and H2: "The quality of life in multiple sclerosis carriers decreases in correlation to the period of time since the diagnosis was made, that is on the duration of the disease.{\crqq} Chapter ``Results{\crqq} contains the established information.
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Free Time as a Space for Self-fulfillment for the Emphasis of Some Factors Human Being in the Context Age Group of Adolescents
RODOVÁ, Marcela
The thesis talks about free time as a space for self-fulfillment in the context with the value change and the change of life style and concretely it analyses free time of the age group of adolescents, it describes their psychological development. The background part describes the historical development of free time, value change, value orientation and life style; it further deals with the question of self-fulfillment, life quality and the needs of an individual. The thesis captures the increasing importance of free time in the present society. The goal was to capture the importance of purposeful use of free time for today{\crq}s individual and its influence on the life quality. It is the purposeful use of free time, which works as a prevention of its possible pathology.
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The life quality at family members of clients with drug addiction depending on their sex
ŠVANCAROVÁ, Alena
The National Strategy for Antidrug Policy for the period 2005 to 2009 is a key document nowadays. Situation in the field of drugs remains stable. Cannabis products and ecstasy are illegal substances used in most cases. Two basic appliances {--} questionnaires and interviews {--} were used in the research of this bachelor thesis. The investigated complex comprised 37 parents and 22 siblings. The sample was determined with random selection. The aim of the research was to define the period of the worst stress at family members of clients with drug addiction. Just the discovery of a family member{\crq}s drug addiction was indicated the worst stress period. Changed appearance, telling lies and change of friends were described as the main indication leading to the conclusion of a family member{\crq}s addiction. Depending on the discovery of problems with drugs the family contentment is changing considerably. It turned out that men solve their family situations connected with drug addiction of a member in a completely passive way. That is why there is a very bad cooperation with curative institutions. The research shows that respondents-siblings were informed on their sibling{\crq}s addiction much earlier than their parents.
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Kategorie kvality života v psychologii zdraví
Řehulka, Evžen ; Řehulková, Oliva
The study deals with position of life quality in contemporary psychological research, in the sphere of psychology of health in particular. We compare the development of the health and life quality categories and the usage of these terms in theory and research. We believe that in the contemporary state of psychological investigation the concept of "life quality" is becoming more advantageous because it better express some new knowledge of psychology, evolution of man and society.
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