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The Issue of Psychosomatic Disease in Undergraduate Students
Dršková, Adéla ; Hošťálková, Monika (advisor) ; Podaná, Jana (referee)
Psychosomatic diseases represent an important (emerging) group of diseases. It is known that the main cause is the effect of prolonged stress. On the contrary, they can be positively influenced by a healthy lifestyle. They may manifest as different diseases, affecting nearly all parts of the body, e.g., asthma, migraine, back pain, gastric ulcer, skin diseases, depression and others. Therefore, it is important to pursue them and to think about their prevention. As the main goal of my work, I determined to find out whether college students are vulnerable to a possible psychosomatic illness. To achieve this, I have set a number of partial objectives, namely: whether and how has changed the lifestyle of university students, whether they have difficulties that could indicate psychosomatic illness, whether they have been diagnosed with psychosomatic illness, whether they have information about prevention, whether they comply with any preventative measures and whether the risk of psychosomatic illness depends on field of study. For quantitative measures, the data was collected using a web-based questionnaire. The questionnaire was anonymous and was distributed via web link. Data were collected using a method of "self-selection", in the period from 4th to 24th of January 2016. Respondents were present or...
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