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The awareness of students of secondary grade elementary school about the causes and consequences of the use of selected addictive substances.
Svobodová, Veronika ; Váchová, Alena (advisor) ; Machovcová, Kateřina (referee)
The diploma thesis focuses on the awareness of 2nd grade pupils of the selected primary school about the causes and consequences of the use of selected addictive substances. The work is divided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part describes the drug scene in the Czech Republic and the drug policy of the Czech Republic, the concepts of drug addiction, physical and mental addiction. The diploma thesis is focused on legal drugs - alcohol, tobacco, caffeine and illegal drugs - specifically on cannabis drugs. The next part of the work deals with addictive problems in children and adolescents and current trends in the use of addictive substances in young people in the Czech Republic according to several studies. At the end of the theoretical part, risk and protective factors influencing the emergence of addiction and risks and the consequences of selected addictive substances are described. The practical part maps the awareness of 2nd grade students of the selected elementary school about the causes and consequences of the use of selected addictive substances before and immediately after my performance in the subject of health education, including the 2nd month interval from the topic. The aim of the practical part was also to point out the low awareness of respondents about the...
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Drug consumption rooms establishment and their providing to drug users: overview of international experiences.
Remešová, Renáta ; Fidesová, Hana (advisor) ; Pavlovská, Amalie (referee)
INTRODUCTION: Drug consumption rooms (DCR) are places for the hygienic consumption of preobtained drugs in a non-judgemental environment and under the supervision of trained staff. Since 1986, the DCR have been established in 10 countries around the world. Despite the fact that Czech Republic offers wide range of services aimed to minimize the risks connected to problematic drug users, intravenous aplication still prevails. While, effectivity of DCR has already been proven, there are none in the Czech Republic. AIMS: The work aims to provide systematic and comprehensive summary of current state of knowledge regarding establishment and runing of DCR from international experiences. Additionally, the target of this work is to describe what conditions, necessary for legal establishment of DCR, were set in these countries and whether these conditions can be set in Czech Republic. Finally, the thesis analyzes whether the DCR are visited and used by clients and describes what the profile of a typical client is. METHODS: For the first part which deals with establishment of DCR, method of written text analysis based on international scientific databases was used. Second part considering the running of DCR was prepared by analyzing the webpages of individual institutions in order to find out organizational...
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Public awareness about AIDS
Müllerová, Ilona ; Vinopal, Jiří (advisor) ; Kyselá, Eva (referee)
The aim of this study is to assess the status of HIV positive people in society. To reach the goal and for introducing a whole continuation of HIV positive status will be used interpretation and analysis of research from the very first to the very latest. Research that will appear in the work, are aimed at knowledge and attitudes towards HIV-positive people. In order to capture the continuation of knowledge and attitudes to HIV / AIDS at the time, researches are presented chronologically, and the last one is my own survey. The sense of this study is to pay attention to the problem of stigma and discrimination against people with HIV. HIV / AIDS issue is a complex problem that affects a wide range of scientific disciplines, so the study includes apart from sociological discourses topics of medicine, law and psychology. Key words: HIV, AIDS, homosexuality, drug use, prevention, stigmatization
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Spirituality and substatnce use among students of the high school Česká Třebová: questionnaire survey
Pávek, Jan ; Vacek, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Reichelová, Lenka (referee)
Background: Within the treatment of addiction, spirituality is included in the bio-psycho- socio-spiritual model, where, compared to others parts of this model, it is the least described and examined component, a fact which is reflected in the status and treatment of patients with a certain type of psychiatric illness. Spirituality is different for every individual person; everyone perceives it differently and reaches different dimensions, whether measurable or only experiential. Objective: The objective of this research was to probe and describe the perception of spirituality among Česká Třebová High School students and it's relation to the experience of using drugs. Other individual objectives were to determine whether the spirituality factors are related to the experience of using specific drugs and whether there is a relation between drug usage and information technology, which is widespread among the schoolage youths. Methodology: The theoretical part focuses on spirituality in general, which is very broad and affects a lot of subjects, and perspectives thereon of other specific scientific fields. A total of 120 respondents from 6 classes of Česká Třebová Grammar School were involved in the research, which was quantitative in format. In total, 120 students were asked to complete...
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The relationship between the occurrence of infectious diseases and drug use in patients of Internal Medicine Clinic (6th station - Infection) University Hospital in Motol in 2011-12
Englcová, Barbora ; Vacek, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Arientová, Simona (referee)
Backrounds: The data source was a summary dossier on illegal drugs users' which heve been treated at the Department of Internal Medicine (6th station - Infection) University Hospital in Motol in 2011 and 2012. It was provided me by doctors. Objectives: The aim of the research was to determine the patients' compliance with the treatment and to describe the relationship between drug use, length of the drug career and the occurence of the infectious diseases. Methods: The comprehensive statistic information on the clients - drug users (315) which have been treated at the Department of Infectious Diseases of the University Hospital in Motol in 2011 and 2012 was analyzed using the analytical-statistical methods. The ethical principles were preserved. The study is retrospective, it hasn't taken place face meeting with these clients. Results: 315 of drug users were treated at the Department of Infectious Diseases of the University Hospital Motol in 2011 and 2012. There are 128 outpatients and 187 hospitalized following outpatient clinics. All patients were between 15 and 57 years old. The most common mode of drug use was intravenous application. Hepatitis occured in 66.2 % of the hospitalized drug addicts, infections of skin and soft tissues in 19.25 %. The sepsis was the reason of hospitalization in...
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The drop-in centre Drug-OUT Club from Usti nad Labem substitution programme clients' quality of life
Šulcová, Ilona ; Janíková, Barbara (advisor) ; Matoušek, Petr (referee)
The thesis focuses on one of the possible methods of the opioid addiction treatment, on the substitution therapy. It also describes specific form of substitution therapy in Ústí nad Labem, part of the particular low-threshold facility for drug users. The paper also briefly discusses opioid addiction and the options of its substitutional therapy in Ústí nad Labem (e.g. methadone therapy, buprenorfine therapy). The aim of this thesis is to evaluate life quality of substitutional therapy's clients in the low-threshold facility in Ústí nad Labem and compare those results with life quality of clients who are using buprenorfine obtained on the black market. Another goal is to use these findings to improve and expand services for this target group. The theoretical part briefly describes the opioid addiction and possible methods of its treatment, mainly substitutional therapy. The research evaluates the life quality of clients who are using buprenorfine and identifies problematic parts of their lives. Data were collected using WHOQOL - BREF questionnaire - anonymous questionnaire of World Health Organization. Sociodemographic and anamnestic data of clients of substitutional therapy were involved. The sample of the clients of substitutional therapy was compared with the control group which consists of...
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Substance abuse among people with hearing impairment and their barriers to accessing substance abuse treatment
Postránecká, Zuzana ; Čablová, Lenka (advisor) ; Janíková, Barbara (referee)
The theme of study was the influence of hearing impairment on human development and his status in society in context of risk situation for substance abuse development. Theoretical part is aimed on psychosocial development of hearing impaired people and social situations, which can have an influence on mental health of deaf and hard of hearing people. The aim of practical part is mainly to describe the presence of substance use among the target group, frequency, prevalence, initiation and abuse of substances with choosen screening methods and diagnostic tools, subjective perception of substance use around the respondent, presence of discrimination or bullying, staying in residential schools and other situation of capital importance which could relate to substance abuse. Used tool of data collecting was a questionnaire in paper and electronical form. To better understanding there were made a videos in sign language. Questionnaires was spread in public school in Prague and in club named Česká unie neslyšících (Czech Union of Deaf), through the social networks, organisation and webs which are focused on hearing impairment, by the snowball method. The only one selection criterion to participate the study was the hearing loss 26 dB and more on better ear. There was no local or age selection. The final...
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