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Effect of Spa Therapy on Quality of Life and Consumption of Drugs in Patients Aged 35-50 Years with Musculoskeletal Disease.
NOUZOVÁ, Jitka
This bachelor thesis titled ?The Effects of Spa Treatment on the Quality of Life and the Consumption of Drugs in Patients Aged 35 to 50 Years with Musculoskeletal Disease? deals, in the first chapters of the theoretical part, with the history and current status of balneology, individual spa treatments, and the importance of spa treatments in treating musculoskeletal diseases. The other chapters deal with health, the quality of life, its measurement and evaluation. Within the thesis, two goals were set: (a) to find out the effects of spa treatment on the quality of life and (b) to monitor the effects of spa treatment on the consumption of drugs in patients aged 35 to 50 years with musculoskeletal disease who were clients of Bertiny lázně in Třeboň. For fulfil the objectives of the thesis, the method interviewing was applied using standardized questionnaire SF-36 about the health related quality of life, which is suitable for finding out about the influence of spa therapy on the quality of life and health state of spa treatment clients. The respondents were examined prior their spa treatment, i.e. immediately after coming to Bertiny lázně in Třeboň, and then 3 months after the spa treatment, using the method of ?postal survey?. The results of this thesis show that the health state of patients with musculoskeletal disease improved after completing spa treatment, most distinctly in the domain of pain relief (30%) and in the vitality domain (26%). The consumption of drugs saw only minimal changes. Based on the results obtained, we can clearly say that spa treatment contributes to the improvement of the quality of life of patients with musculoskeletal disease and it also clearly points to the effectiveness of finance invested in balneology.
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