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Knowledge of the rights and obligations of patients in the provision of nursing care in primary health care
NOVÁKOVÁ, Lenka
This thesis deals with patients' rights in the provision of nursing care in primary health care and in particular patients' knowledge of them. The previously regular paternalistic relationship between doctor and patient is now replaced by a partnership approach, where the patient is a participant in the decision-making process as regards of his/her treatment. For this reason, it is essential that sufficient information are given to patient in order to make decisions and also in order to know and understand their rights. As primary health care tends to be the first point of contact between the patient and the health system, it is important that patients are made aware of their rights at this level of care. This paper aims to investigate the extent of patients' knowledge of patients' rights, whether familiarity with rights varies with the age of respondents and whether knowledge differs between men and women. A quantitative research design was used to meet the objectives of this thesis and a survey method in the form of a non-standardised anonymous questionnaire addressed to patients was used to carry out the research. The research was carried out in the registering health care providers for adults, i.e. in general practitioners' offices in the Tábor region. The hypothesis predicting a difference between men and women in knowledge of patient rights was not supported by the research, while the hypothesis predicting a difference in awareness of patient rights in different age categories was supported. The results of the empirical investigation revealed that knowledge of patients' rights was at a fairly satisfactory level, but only 12 % of respondents reported that primary care was the place where they had been introduced to the Patients' Rights document. We believe it is important that there is a change in this area and that primary care equips patients with knowledge of their rights before they progress to higher levels of the healthcare system.
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Variation of the Sniffin' Sticks Olfactory Detection Threshold Test in Czech Adolescents
Takáčová, Bibiana ; Martinec Nováková, Lenka (advisor) ; Veverová, Kateřina (referee)
Currently, the Sniffin sticks test is widely used to test the sense of smell, both clinically and in research, which, in addition to the olfactory detection thresholds test, also includes discrimination and identification subtests. Previous research has suggested that detection thresholds can fluctuate significantly over a short period of time. Getting a picture of the practical applicability of this knowledge is complicated by the fact that the results of detection threshold measurements are conditioned by the way we approach threshold testing and the fact that these researches were not conducted in younger age groups. For the stated reasons, we decided to test a group of 155 (78 males) Czech adolescents aged 15-16 during 3 measurements at two-week intervals. We chose this age group, due to the assumption, that pubertal changes have ended, which we expect could significantly distort variability. We compared detection thresholds within 2 groups and genders according to whether they performed above or below the normosmia threshold. Our research showed that the expected difference between the performance of women and men did not appear in our research sample. With a weak to moderately strong effect, the variability during the measurements was explained by the inclusion in the normosmic or hyposmic...
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