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Awareness of university students about the health risks associated with a stay abroad, knowledge and use of possible preventive measures
HANKOVÁ, Hana
The topic of my thesis is foreign travel issues. Its purpose is to survey the awareness of students of the University of South Bohemia about travel risks, while mapping the knowledge and use of available preventive measures. The thesis is divided into two parts, theoretical and practical. In the theoretical part I try to describe in a well arranged way the available knowledge about health risks associated with traveling, including the various forms of prevention. The aim of the practical part is to analyze the obtained data and to determine the awareness of university students about the risks associated with traveling. The survey is based on the methods of prevalence studies conducted using an anonymous questionnaire survey. In total, 652 students of the University of South Bohemia were addressed, the number of returns was 460 questionnaires. In relation to the objectives two hypotheses were proposed. H1: The awareness of students of the Faculty of Health and Social Studies about the health risks associated with a stay abroad is significantly higher than that of students of other faculties of the University of South Bohemia. H2: Statistically, the most important source of information on the knowledge and use of possible prevention measures is the Internet. These hypotheses were statistically evaluated and on the basis of the obtained results they were confirmed or refuted. The research results show that the most informed about the presented issues are students of the Faculty of Science. This fact was later explained by a number of exotic destinations visited during the last stay abroad, as well as a wide offer of the Faculty of globally-oriented practical training and research fellowships, in connection with which the students inform themselves about possible travel risks. Statistically, most of the surveyed students use the Internet to get information. This research became the basis for targeted focus of health education on minimizing health risks when traveling abroad. The real outcome of the thesis is an information poster which will be distributed to individual faculties of the University of South Bohemia.
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Quality of life of applicants for long-term study visa in the South Bohemia region
HANKOVÁ, Hana
Bachelor thesis deals with "Quality of life of applicants for long-term study visa in the South Bohemia region". The main objective was to identify if the quality of foreign students studying in the Czech Republic changes during the long stay in the Czech Republic and if so, how this is expressed. The thesis is divided into two sections {--} theoretical and practical. The theoretical part consists of three chapters. The first chapter deals with quality of life in general, its history, definitions and possibilities of scoring the quality of life. The second section outlines chances of foreigners at the entry and stay in the Czech Republic. The third summarizes activities of foreigners in our country since the foundation of the Czech Republic until now, their numbers and education. At the beginning of the empirical section the goal is set is hypotheses are stated, followed by the research process description and the means used to confirm or refute hypotheses. The resulting values are clearly explained and presented in the form of graphs and tables. Data obtained from the research are being confronted in subsequent discussion. The goal of the thesis is to determine how the quality of life of foreign students differs from European standards, and whether it gets changed in the course of the long-term residence in the Czech Republic. To meet the goals of this thesis the method of standardized questionnaire SF-36 on health-related quality of life, which measures eight domains of health, was used. The outcomes of the research prove that quality of life of foreign students is different in comparison with the European standard Oxford. It was also shown that the quality of life during the long-term residence in the Czech Republic decreases in the domains of physical functioning, role limitations due to physical problems, role limitations due to emotional problems, social functioning and pain, while an increase occurs in the category of general mental health, vitality and general perception of health.
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