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The role of the nurse in regime measures for a migraine sufferer
PAPOUŠKOVÁ, Veronika
In the presented bachelor thesis were set two main gals. The first one was to map needs of the sufferer with migraine. The second one was to describe regime meassures of the sufferer with migraine. Four research questions were developed to adress the objectives, which are as follows: How do patients subjectively describe the course of migraine attacks? What are the needs of a patient with migraine attack? What factors influence the frequency and course of migraine attacks? How much are patients with migraine attack inform about regime measures? The Empirical part of bachelor thesis was developed by using qualitative research methods. To the process of collect datas was used semi-structures interview technique. The interview consisted 28 questions, which are presented in Appendix 1. The findings were processed using open coding, pencil-and-paper technique. The research population consisted of a total od 9 informants who suffer from migraine. The subjects had to be over eighteen years of age and their experience of migraine had to be at least five years. The results of the research part are presented in the bachelor thesis trough tree main kategories. The first category focuses on the subjective description of the course of migraine attacks of individual informants. This category includes the frequency of migraine attacks, the description of the period before the attack, the course of the attack itself, and finally the posta-attack period. The secon category delas with the needs of migraine sufferers. Here is description of the informants´ behaviour during the attack, how much the informants are affected by migraine, and how the informants manage migraines pain. The last category focuses on regime measures. In this category, migraine patients describe migraine triggers, the regime measures followed by migraine patients, how informed the yre about migraine conditions, and what information they miss about migraine. The results of the bachelor thesis will be used by health professionals to expand information about the needs of migraine sufferers. The information found cant hen be used by nurses to map out the regime measures of patients with migraine. The obtained informations can also be used by migraine patients who would be able to better understand migraine-related conditions and regime measures based on the thesis.
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