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The founders of alcohol abuse treatment centers in our country at the beginning of the 20th century
Hrubá, Dita ; Šejvl, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Popov, Petr (referee)
Background: The beginning of 20th century was in our country favourable for dealing with alcoholic issues. T. G. Masaryk takes the lead of the country. He and most importantly his sympathizers are continuously concerned with this issue and as the psychiatric institutions are filled with alcoholics these days, an effort to establish specialised institutes for alcoholism treatment is made. Aims: To map the beginning of institutionalized alcohol treatment in our territory. Describe the activities and ideas of main representatives and founders of institutional treatment of alcoholism of that time, namely MUDr. Jan Šimsa, Bedřich Konařík and Prof. Břetislav Foustka. Methods: A qualitative content analysis of documents that were available on given topic and their comparison was used for data collection. Afterwards, an analogy of obtained information was accomplished. Results: MUDr. Jan Šimsa, Bedřich Konařík and prof. Břetislav Foustka were very occupied with issue of addiction and excessive consumption of alcohol. At the beginning of 20th century a spread of anti-alcohol movement and establishment of constitutional hospitals in the same spirit arises. Key words: alcohol, addiction, treatment, sanatorium, Bohemia, 20th century
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The founders of alcohol abuse treatment centers in our country at the beginning of the 20th century
Hrubá, Dita ; Šejvl, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Popov, Petr (referee)
Background: The beginning of 20th century was in our country favourable for dealing with alcoholic issues. T. G. Masaryk takes the lead of the country. He and most importantly his sympathizers are continuously concerned with this issue and as the psychiatric institutions are filled with alcoholics these days, an effort to establish specialised institutes for alcoholism treatment is made. Aims: To map the beginning of institutionalized alcohol treatment in our territory. Describe the activities and ideas of main representatives and founders of institutional treatment of alcoholism of that time, namely MUDr. Jan Šimsa, Bedřich Konařík and Prof. Břetislav Foustka. Methods: A qualitative content analysis of documents that were available on given topic and their comparison was used for data collection. Afterwards, an analogy of obtained information was accomplished. Results: MUDr. Jan Šimsa, Bedřich Konařík and prof. Břetislav Foustka were very occupied with issue of addiction and excessive consumption of alcohol. At the beginning of 20th century a spread of anti-alcohol movement and establishment of constitutional hospitals in the same spirit arises. Key words: alcohol, addiction, treatment, sanatorium, Bohemia, 20th century
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The founders of alcohol abuse treatment centers in our country at the beginning of the 20th century
Hrubá, Dita ; Šejvl, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Popov, Petr (referee)
Background: At the turn of the 19th and 20th century on the historical territory of Czech and Moravia alcoholism was considerable social and health issue. At the beginning of 20th century specialized institutions for treatment of alcohol dependence are being established in our country. Aims: The goal of this thesis is to depict the lives and thoughts of the institutional alcohol treatment founders in our country at the beginning of 20th century, to map the beginning of the alcohol treatment in this period and to describe the emerging institutions. Methods: Qualitative content analysis of fixed documents was applied to collect the data. The data was coded and interconnected according to mutual relations in context of establishment of institutional alcohol treatment in our country. Results: At least a partial continuum describing the lives and thoughts of leading founders of institutions for treatment of alcohol dependence is carried out. Conclusion: Since 1895 MUDr. Jan Šimsa has already been expressing the need to treat the people dependent on alcohol in a specialized institutions. Also Mr Bedřich Konařík-Bečvan describes the need of establishing a specialized institution for dependence treatment and in 1911 in Velké Kunčice he is opening the first institution of this type. After the First World...
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