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Burn-out syndrome in the Czech police officers
Očenášková, Nada ; Gillernová, Ilona (advisor) ; Boukalová, Hedvika (referee)
A phenomenon that has been described in the specialist literature for about 40 years, burn-out syndrome was originally thought to be linked primarily with the so-called helping professions, i.e. professions with high levels of emotional strain and long-term stress. However, with the accelerating pace of human life and everincreasing demand for constantly high performance at work, the scope of the professions at risk has widened. Policing is considered to be demanding work, in both mental and physical terms. Therefore, one may assume that the risk of burning out is high. Nonetheless, very few detailed studies exist and in the Czech Republic this area is virtually unexplored. This thesis focuses on the issue of burn-out syndrome in the Czech Police. In the first section the author provides an overview of the theories and definitions of burn-out syndrome, discussing its development, signs, related phenomena, possible causes, methods of research and prevention. A special section is devoted to the specific characteristics of policing, police culture, strain factors and their negative effects, the impact of stress and ways to prevent burn-out syndrome in policing. The practical part of the thesis contains a description of the author's own research into the prevalence of burn-out syndrome in the police forces of...
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The Vexation at the workplace
Chaloupková, Naďa ; Hejda, Jan (advisor)
The border between common and vexation matter of person behaviour we are accustomed to is very slight. The topic of my diploma paper "Vexation at the workplace" becomes very actual and constantly the bigger problem in the contemporary modern society. Everyday mentally terror at the workplace, vexation among the colleagues, systematically made malignancies through which the superiors attack their inferiors (or vice-versa) is a problem that belongs serious incoveniences both to its victims and the company. My diploma paper is above all focused on the sophisticated and malicious area of work-vexation that is called the mobbing. Marginally I mention other forms of vexation and the bossing. I made my exploration at the public service environment as the work-vexation is usually put together with it. Primarily I point the legal and moral side of the mobbing and its psychological and social aspects. Secondarily I mark the mobbing as a job-psychological phenomenon, its influence to the company itself and consequences between it and some modern society trends (teamwork, power, burn-out syndrome, internet technologies). Supposing to become the managers we should make effort to eliminate the mobbing. As only the workplace without the vexation brings the satisfaction that can results in higher level of the work productivity, economic profit and the the incapacity of work decreasement. Thereby the mobbing affects the whole life of its victim and also that anyone of us can become the victim it is necessary to solve this problem urgently and constantly.
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Chemical burn of the respiratory and gastrointestinal tract in children
ŠVANCAROVÁ, Alena
The professional public have registered and increased incidence of injuries to children caused by chemical substances during the last years. The issue has recently been neither given appropriate publicity in media nor solved sufficiently, however, with respect to the high frequency and seriousness of injuries, it deserves to be given more significant attention. The research study focused on detailed mapping of the causes and circumstances of the occurrence of the respiratory and gastrointestinal tract injuries in children caused by chemical substances. The research sample comprised of children less than 18 years old who suffered injuries caused by a chemical substance in the monitored period, while being hospitalized in connection with such an injury at the Nemocnice České Budějovice, a. s., Nemocnice Most, o. z., and Fakultní nemocnice Motol, Prague, hospitals. The research study included 90 children (out of which 44 girls and 46 boys). The youngest hospitalized child was five months old, the oldest was seventeen. The required data were collected in a prospective manner (May 1, 2008 - October 31, 2008) and in a retrospective manner (January 1, 2006 {--} April 30, 2008). I obtained the research result though the secondary data analysis (medical documentation) and the analysis of products (those that where staded in the medical documentation to have been packed in an original package). The results of the secondary analysis of the medical documentation refer to the fact that 94 per cent of all the injuries caused by chemical substances were induced by children in their domestic environment. Damage to the organism was caused by agents commonly used in Czech households (waste pipe cleaners, dishwasher tablets, cooker cleaners, etc). It is understandable that packals of these products attract children's attention because producers have selected rich colours (yellow, blue, violet, pink) only for their products as a part of their fight-for-customers strategy. Many products have not been fitted with safety cap closures and in combination with unsuitable storing there was nothing left to prevent an injury. The appearance of new detergents, such as for example dishwasher tablets, on the market is accompanied with the risk of occurrence of new injury types that need to be drawn attention to. In my opinion, sufficient public healt educational campaigns should lead to the decreasing of the number of injuries. Information campaign should be organised in a manner addressing the highest possible number of parents and persons taking care of children. I consider efficient to place information leaflets on the websites of organisations and institutions working with children population, to use TV spots and to distribute information leaflets of brochures to paediatric surgeries and nursery schools. The leaflets should contain information not only about proper household storing of such products, but also several pieces of advice in the case when an injury has already been suffered.
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Early care of children with the compound disablement, focused on care of caring parent
ŠORMOVÁ, Jana
In my thesis titled {\clqq}Early care for children with combined disability with the focus on the care for caring parents`` the following issues are dealt with: disability problems, the system of the early care in the Czech Republic, possibilities, techniques and methods used in the early care for children with combined disability. The thesis also refers to the role of the caring parent as the main component of the team of early care providers, the process of coping with the child disability and the danger of the burn-out syndrome. For the purpose of this study I used the educational projects prepared by the association Alfa Human Service {\clqq}Education and practice of persons caring for a dependent family member (CZ.04.3.07/2.2.1.01.1/2004)`` and the project {\clqq}Support for the persons potentially endangered by unemployment (CZ.04.3.07/1.1.01.3/1088)``. The objective of my thesis was to survey the needs of caring parents, their expectations and the effectiveness of educational activities aiming at the social integration and the access to the job market.
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The impact of working load on nurses in intensive care unit
Stříteská, Martina ; Marková, Eva (advisor) ; Jurásková, Dana (referee)
The dissertation analyses working burden of nurses in intensive care units. It compares the impact of stressful factors on nurses in intensive care and standard units. My dissertation tried to take part in answering this question. I have used questionnaire to both nurses in intensive and standart units in order to elucidate which factors are really stressful in their job. The dissertation is divided into theoretical and experimanetal parts. Stress, burn-out syndrome and specificity of intensive medicine are discussed in theoretical part of dissertation. In experimental part, the presence of stressful factors found by questionnaire in both groups of nurses are compared and analysed.
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Burn-out Syndrome in Clerics
Janda, Lukáš ; Lhotová, Marie (advisor) ; Lachmanová, Kateřina (referee)
Anotation Subject title: Spiritual burnout Author: Lukáš Janda Supervisor: PhDr. Ing. Marie Lhotová, Ph.D The disertation focuses on burnout syndrome. The author searches to expalain theoretical reasons for burnout syndrome, to identify its symptoms and ultimately outline treatment and prevention. This issue is described in two parts: The first part discusses the topic in general, the second part focusses on its manifestations in priests, nuns and monks. The author's assumptions and conclusion in the research outline predispositions of the syndrome. The priests taking part in the study are active in Prague county and the nuns work in the Karla Boromejského hospital. Key words Burnout syndrome priests nuns monks nurse hospital
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The burn-out syndrome and rescue workers
Koudela, Ondřej ; Remr, Jiří (advisor) ; NÁHRADNÍ, OPONENT (referee)
This paper offers a basic insight into the probelmacy of rescuery - using his own expiriences and literature, the author provides elementaric introduction to emergency medicine. He explaines some basic therms and characteristics, using them in the practical part below. At the same time the paper introduces the burn-out syndrome. On this theoretical part concurs a quantitative sociological survey, connecting together the two theoretical themes mentioned above. First, it deals with the incidency of the burn-out at rescue workers in The Czech Republic, second, it investigates choice possible predictors of this phenomenon within the frame of emergency medicine. The survey-part follows also the regional disproportions of emergency medical care in The Czech Republic. Aside from the theoretical introduction to the emergency medical care and the burn-out syndrome problemacy, also interresting findings are to be found here: how the rescuers are afflicted with the burn-out syndrome, what are they mostly frustrated with and last, but not least, how is this connected with the region they work in. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Transcription factor PU.1 is a target of 5-azacitidine during differentiation therapy of myelodysplastic syndrome
Čuřík, Nikola ; Stopka, Tomáš (advisor) ; Kleibl, Zdeněk (referee) ; Trka, Jan (referee)
PU.1 is a key hematopoietic transcription factor. Knock-out of PU.1 in mouse is embryonic lethal due to complete depletion or several disruption of differentiation of multiple blood cell lineages. Low level of PU.1 and the disruption of its regulation are associated in vivo with acute myeloid leukemia and other hematologic malignancies. Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) is hematopoietic stem cell disorder with extremely heterogeneous features and outcome. It is characterized by improper differentiation of blood cells resulting in loss of function, dysplasia and blasts accumulation in bone marrow. About one third of MDS cases transforms into AML. MDS is also characterized by silencing of gene expression caused by aberrant DNA hypermethylation. Using DNA Methyltransferase inhibitors (DNMTi) such as 5-azacitidine (AZA) has good clinical results for the MDS patients with higher risk of disease. Indeed, AZA became standard therapy of high risk MDS in recent years. Nonetheless, our understanding of molecular mechanisms of AZA remains incomplete. This PhD thesis reports about the role of transcription factor PU.1 in MDS. We found that significant subset of high risk MDS patients express low level of PU.1 due to DNA hypermethylation of PU.1 upstream regulatory element (URE). We also found significant...
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New pharmacological interventions influencing food intake regulation
Špolcová, Andrea ; Čabala, Radomír (advisor) ; Podlipná, Radka (referee)
NEW PHARMACOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS INFLUENCING FOOD INTAKE REGULATION Author: Bc. Andrea Špolcová ABSTRACT Prolactin-releasing peptide (PrRP) identified as an endogenous ligand of the orphan receptor GPR10 was originally found to stimulate the secretion of prolactin (PRL) both in vitro and in vivo. PrRP-mediated PRL secretion was later questioned and is not currently considered to be the primary function of PrRP. The fact that both PrRP and GPR10 knock-out mice are hyperphagic and develop late-onset obesity proves the unique anorexigenic properties of PrRP. Designing and evaluation of PrRP analog(s) with selective anorexigenic properties and searching for PrRP antagonists would contribute to finding the mechanism and possible treatment of obesity and metabolic syndrome. In our recent published study (Maixnerová et al., Peptides (2011)), the PrRP receptor was immunodetected and characterized by saturation binding in three rodent tumor pituitary cell lines. Two naturally occurring analogs, PrRP31 and PrRP20, showed comparable potency in binding, cell signaling and prolactin release in pituitary RC-4B/C cells, as well as caused food intake decrease after intracerebroventricular administration in fasted mice. In the present study, analogs of PrRP20 with C-terminal Phe amide derivatives with modified aromatic...
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Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Prevention in Children with Coeliac Disease.
PAPOUŠKOVÁ, Helena
Celiac disease is a lifelong disorder characterised by permanent intolerance to gluten and typical inflammatory changes in the small intestine. These changes lead to malabsorption of all nutrients, minerals, vitamins and water. The first attack of this disorder mostly occurs in childhood because the small intestine is greatly stressed by other nutrition supply. The only effective treatment is a lifelong gluten-free diet. This thesis, called Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention in children with celiac disease, consists of two parts; a theory part for which both professional publications and internet have been used and an empirical part, that comprises research itself with its results. The research target of this thesis was the sector of celiac disease occurring in children. Within the research, there were determined four objectives. The first objective was about to find out how primary, secondary and tertiary prevention is provided to children with celiac disease in GP ambulances for children and teenagers. Another task was to trace what profits the regime education brings to parents of children having celiac disease. We also dealt with the impact of the disease on the life of the child, his/her family and surrounding society. Then we investigated whether respondents take the help from outside, state support, institutions and in-kind assistance. In the empirical part of the thesis we used a method of qualitative research. For this research we chose a method of questionings through individual semi-structured interviews with two groups of respondents. The first group was made of nine nurses working in GP ambulances for children and teenagers having celiac disease. The second group was formed by nine children with celiac disease and their parents. The outcome of the research indicates that for quality health care supply it is important to obtain family anamnesis, carry out regular physicals in stated intervals within growth measurement monitoring and breastfeeding education and add other nutrition to diet. Monitoring suspicious symptoms, such as failure to thrive, inexplicable weight loss, growth retardation, abdominal pain, recurrent diarrhoea, digestive discomfort, dermatitis, stomatitis, anaemia, can soon detect celiac disorder. The secondary prevention is expressed by the work of nurses, such as biological material analysis, education, advice, help and support. Great urgency is given to risk factor monitoring, such as diabetes mellitus, Down syndrome, thyroid disorder, or genetic predispositions. The tertiary prevention is focused on the adaptation support of the child and his/her family to this chronic disorder, normal growth, and whole constitution examining and complication prevention. The outcomes indicate that the biggest problem of celiac people is financial burden of gluten-free food and also frequent limits in out-of- home eating. The financial burden of the diet influences, for example, vacation planning. It is necessary for the society to respect their disease, for example, canteens and teachers should have knowledge of the diet restrictions and provide suitable feeding. Furthermore, our findings show that only few families use financial support, because they are afraid of negative allowance examination because of their comfortable income. They mainly use allowance from Health Insurance Companies. On the grounds of the acquired information has been created an informative handout for the parents of the children with the celiac disease. The results of our research will be provided to the nurses who work in general practitioner ambulances.
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