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Fear of pain
Grecmanová, Jana ; Raudenská, Jaroslava (advisor) ; Švarcová, Eva (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the important relationship between pain, fear of pain and an avoidance behavior of patiens. The thesis is devided into two parts - theoretical part and empirical part. The first part defines the basic concepts such as pain, pain behavior, anxiety, fear and avoidance behavior. This thesis explains what is normal fear and which fear is already phobia. There are described differences in detail between anxiety and fear, which are often confused with each other. It brifly desribes two theories of anxiety and fear - Rachman's and Eysenck's. It adds four models of relations between fear and chronic pain that attempt to answer the question, such as bio-psycho-social mechanisms fear of pain may affect patient behavior. In conclusion, the theoretical section describes the methods of evaluation the fear of pain and strategy how to overcome it and not to give up it. The empirical section is focused on the intensity of fear in patient with chronic pain depending on gender, age and their current pain. There are also researched differences in the use of strategy of control over fear among men and women. Finally we found which gender use more avoidance behaviour of painful activities and movements. For processing of this issue and determine the objectives was chosen quantitative...
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Nurse and pain
Haltmarová, Barbora ; Raudenská, Jaroslava (advisor) ; Jirkovský, Daniel (referee)
The Bachelor thesis deals with the chronic pain issues, the main point of interest therein is the pain connected with oncological diseases. The cancer pain, means of its treatment and the role of a nurse as far as the correct monitoring as the major attribute in cancer pain therapy is concerned are amongst the most important pillars of this work in theory. In terms of successful coping with pain, psycho-oncology should also be referred to as one of the pillars of the treatment with significant impact. Furthermore, the theory part informs about using the adequate coping strategies. The theory part is completed with the cancer patient description and it characterizes the specifics of nursing care for such clients. The empirical part focuses on pain intensity findings for oncological patients as well as formulating the frequency of using the coping strategies and examining the differences between the genders with regards to using these coping methods. The data, which was taken as a statistical base for the calculations of this thesis, were collected using the questionnaire method. A numeric scale was used to identify the pain intensity and the CCQ (Cancer Coping Questionnaire) was utilized to monitor coping strategies and define the frequency of their use.
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Sensation and pain tolerance in the range of cultural vision
ČUTOVÁ, Jana
For the Diploma work we chose the theme: ``Algesia and pain tolerance across cultures``. We chose it because due to globalisation and migration of inhabitants cultures from the whole world reside in the Czech Republic. We decided for three the most numerous cultural groups in the Czech Republic, which are Czechs, Romanies and Vietnamese. These cultures, despite living in one territory, have a different history, different customs and traditions and approach differently to health and disease. They perceive pain differently, it has a different importance for them and they use different ways of calming the pain. To get to know these cultures closer in the area of pain and to describe differences between Czechs, Romanies and Vietnamese is the essential for a good quality professional and especially multicultural care. For better lucidity and coherence we divided the theoretical part into four sections. The first one is devoted to basic information about pain, its history, factors that affect algesia and its treatment. Other sections are focused gradually on each culture separately. We mention brief history of the relevant culture, pain treatment in the past and especially pain symptoms in the relevant culture, algesia and tolerance of pain. For the empirical section there were defined three targets and five hypotheses. We should find out and compare the differences in calming pain in Romany, Vietnamese and Czech culture in domestic and hospital environment. We should further find out whether the designated cultures consider pain a part of their lives and the last target was to find out the effect of pain on normal activity leading to initiation of activities for pain calming. The targets were established based on the assumption that members of nation minorities in the Czech Republic, in this work specially Romanies and Vietnamese, prefer non-pharmacological ways of calming pain to the pharmacological ones and that Czechs do not consider pain a part of their life unlike members of the nation minorities in the Czech Republic. Other assumption was that a church person bears pain better than an atheist. And last two assumptions were that Romanies have lower pain tolerance than Czechs and that Vietnamese higher. The research was carried out at a selected sample of representatives of all three cultures in form of questionnaires. On the basis of results it is possible to say that the work targets were met. The first two hypotheses were not proved and the last three were.
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