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Analysis of educational materials for patients with coeliac disease
ZIMMELOVÁ, Hana
The Dissertation deals with educational materials for patients with celiac disease. It describes general requirements for teaching materials and the didactical principles suitable for educational materials for patients with celiac disease. It presents a draft criteria for assessment of web sites intended for people suffering of celiac disease. Five Czech, as well as foreign Internet-based resources, have been selected and assessed for compliance with the criteria given by technical properties, contents, page structures, criteria evaluating credibility of the sites and educational criteria. All the sites assessed can be used for education of patients with celiac disease, but they are rather information sites with a low content of educational characteristics.
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Coeliac disease as a health, nutritional and social problem.
ZIMMELOVÁ, Hana
Coeliac disease is a serious, life endangering disease that affects both children and adults. Diagnosing the disease is very straightforward, it is sufficient to conduct specialised blood tests and, if the results are positive, to carry out a biopsy of the small intestine. Despite being relatively simple to diagnose, the disease remains undetected in most patients for various reasons. Curing it is a rather uncomplicated process, merely requiring the removal of gluten from patients{\crq} diets. However, this is not as easy as it sounds in today{\crq}s society. Gluten is used in a number of industrially manufactured foodstuffs. Furthermore, a gluten-free diet is financially demanding, and the government does not subsidise special dietary foods anywhere near as much as those of other European nations. The net result is not only intense labour as regards food preparation at home, but there is a psychological effect due to the severity of disease, as well an impact socially as patients have to face the financial demands of the diet. Unfortunately, culinary staff tends to be poorly informed about the disease, added to which there is a need to prepare meals in a special manner. Hence, the main goal of this thesis was to conduct research on the literature available and put together a simple instruction manual, intended as a convenient aid for nutritional therapists and even people newly diagnosed with coeliac disease.
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