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Social consequence on the families where a member is drug addicted.
RUDOVÁ, Lucie
Abstract {--} Social consequence on the families where a member is drug addicted This current issue is considered to pose a social phenomenon of significant consequence. Together with further social problems of the day, drug addiction and its impacts rank worldwide among the most burning issues, particularly in terms of their reflection in the media. Recently, the issue of drug legalisation has often been discussed widely in the media leaving the impact of drug addiction on the families stricken with this problem out of consideration. At first, the drug addiction affects solely the addicted family member, but in the course of time, drug addiction is bound to become a burning issue for the whole family. It depends on each individual family member and their level of the development of protective mechanisms which directly correlate with their chance to master this stressor, the occurrence of drug addiction within the family. The objective of my bachelor paper has been to evaluate the social impact of drug addiction on other family members. In relationship with this objective a hypothesis has been formulated - The social impact of drug addiction on a family the members of which are drug addicted is socially significant and traumatising for the other family members. A quantitative research has been carried out in family members, whose close relatives have been treated for drug addiction. The psychiatric clinic Červený Dvůr and its highly qualified and trained medical staff provided the necessary terms and conditions for this field research. Only 44 percent of the respondents were ready and willing to participate in the research, which shows that this topic still presents a highly sensitive issue, even a taboo, for families with a drug addicted member, as these families strive to protect their private sphere and do not tend to make their drug addiction family problem public. The questionnaire was focussed on the detection of the social impact related to drug addiction within the family. Thus, the responses presented a basis for determining the rate and significance of the social impact of drug addiction on the individual respondents. The results of the research section of this bachelor paper actually showed both the social significance of the drug issue and its high traumatic rate for stricken families. The objective of the presented bachelor paper has thus been fulfilled and the results have proved the correctness of the hypothesis.
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Public opinion on homelessness.
RUDOVÁ, Lucie
Abstract {--} Public opinion on homelessness The issue of homelessness became very relevant in the last year. At present, the number of people without home has been growing and a nation-wide problem comes into being which cannot be overlooked by the society. As well as other problems of the current world, also the issue of homelessness is one of the popular mediaʼs topics. The homelessness as extreme expression of the poverty and social exclusion is, all the time, an issue neglected not only by the specialists and the state, but also by the lay public. For this reason it is necessary to address the public and first of all to inform the public sufficiently of the given issue. Only based on the knowledge and understanding the people will be able to treat this issue thoroughly and in a thought-out way and they will not avert the eyes from this problem. The target of my thesis is to evaluate the attitude of public to the issue of homelessness. In connection with it two hypotheses were postulated: 1) The citizens of younger age (15-30 years) have a more tolerant attitude to the issue of homelessness than citizen of older age (31-70 let). 2) The women have a higher understanding for the aid to homeless persons then men. A quantitative research was made among persons in the age group of 15-70 years residing permanently in České Budějovice and surroundings, in the form of a controlled questionnaire applying the method of the accidental choice of the respondents. The whole research was performed in the hospital in České Budějovice under the supervision of the medical staff and partly also through internet. The research file consisted of 60% respondents. The questions in the questionnaire were directed on establishment of the attitude of the public to the issue of the persons without homes. On the questions formulated in this determined way the total attitude of the respondents to homeless people was estabilshed as well as the differences in the attitude to the homeless people depending on age and sex of the respondent. The results of the research part of the thesis really proved the highly negative attitude of citizens to homeless people, however, the persons of younger age (15-30 years) showed a higher tolerance rate then citizens of older age (31-70 years). The women also showed a higher extent of altruism then men. Based on these results the hypotheses postulated in advance were confirmed unambiguously and with them also the target of the thesis.
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