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Research studies have shown that the health condition of immigrants is not influenced only by gender differences; significant determinants also include ethnicity, consistency of cultural heritage and social class. In relation to their status, immigrants belong to a vulnerable group with a higher incidence of a number of illnesses [1,2]. The submitted article is focused on mapping the influence of...
Animals have had an impact on humans since the beginning of domestication; initially only as an aid to survival or as a source of livelihood, but later – especially in the case of the dog – also as a partner and helper. The positive effects of human–animal interaction for treatment and rehabilitation purposes have been known empirically for centuries. In recent decades, there has been a relatively...
Any childhood disease is stress for parents or other carers. The goal of this survey was to assess what coping strategies are used in families with a chronically ill child to cope with the resulting stress situations. The examined cohort consisted of parents of children suffering from a selected chronic disease (diabetes mellitus, bronchial asthma, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, atopic eczema, celiac...
The aim of our survey study is to describe the current findings in the sphere of social determinants of health among the Romani minority in the Czech Republic. The survey study mainly presents the results of three research projects carried out in the years 2001–2009, focused on the area of subjective and objective perception of the health state of Romani respondents, although we also used data processed...
Diagnostic coronarography and coronary interventions have become widely accepted procedures in patients with ischaemic heart disease, in the acute, chronic, as well as diagnostic stages. The interventions on coronary arteries are closely connected with diagnostic catheterization and deal with stenoses of coronary arteries. The diagnostic and interventional catheters used for the procedure are inserted...
In the present study, we examined the physical activity, and the perceived health and related motivational constructs in Czech older adults. It is a correlational questionnaire study conducted in a sample of 315 Czech seniors, mostly participants of various educational and social programmes for older adults. We administered a battery of questionnaires to measure self-rated physical activity (PASE,...
The study is the first tentative nursing probe into the quality of life of Czech patients after lung transplantation. The main objective of the study is to determine the quality of life in adult patients after lung transplantation in the Czech Republic and point out ways in which nursing can contribute to improving the quality of life of these patients.The study used a combination of two standardized...
The intervention Dying Care from the Nursing Intervention Classification (NIC) includes six activities to support family members. The aim of the study was to find out if nurses perform these activities, and whether they consider their introduction into contemporary nursing practice in the Czech Republic to be feasible. We used a quantitative approach in which we carried out a cross-sectional study,...
Current trends in the use of military force are influenced by the tendency to minimalize casualties and material losses. As a result, from the beginning of the 1990s, a new category of weapons appeared; the so-called “non-lethal” weapons, which are able temporarily to disable personnel from combat action (preferably without permanent consequences to their health, to the operation of other non-destructive...
The aim of this paper was to identify the relationship between customer requirements for fulfilling their cultural needs, and the size of healthcare facilities that provide inpatient health care in Slovakia. We also investigated the rate of identification of clients’ cultural needs in selected Slovak healthcare facilities, regarding communication, alternative nutrition and the spiritual needs of clients...
Diamond Way Buddhism is the youngest Buddhist lay organization, which is focused above all on meditation and direct transmission of experience of mind entity from a teacher to a pupil. In the Western world Diamond Way Buddhism seems to be a very popular direction because of its independence, pragmatism and stress on critical thinking. In recent years, interest in the Diamond Way Buddhism of Karma...
The paper deals with the competencies of individual members of a nursing team. The aims of the paper were to describe the current state of fulfilling the competencies of members of nursing teams in inpatient facilities in the Czech Republic as perceived by managers of non-medical professions; to compare the differences in activities of the nursing process, and to assess the needs and education of...
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the participation and the degree of success of the visually impaired in the labor market with regard to the market economy in the Czech Republic.The method used consisted of the application and comparison of statistical information on persons with disabilities, collected by order of the Czech government, the Czech Statistical Office in cooperation with the Ministry...
Based on a secondary analysis of data from qualitative research of unmarried parental couples, this article explores childbearing in unmarried cohabitation from the perspective of de-standardisation and individualization of family trajectories. Drawing upon a differentiation of their situation at the moment around childbirth and their actual attitudes, it distinguishes heterogeneity of views of unmarried...
According to the latest published data, the total of 33 outpatient geriatric facilities were registered in the Czech Republic at the end of 2011 employing (mostly on a part-time basis) 63 physicians. The aim of this paper was to analyze the reasons of this situation. An extensive survey of the opinions of Czech geriatricians performed in spring 2013 addressing all the 230 geriatricians registered...
Objectives: Given the general ageing of our population, the number of women suffering from the symptoms of oestrogen deficiency in postmenopause, which may affect their health-related quality of life, is increasing. Therefore, health professionals need reliable tools to be able to find out how the strengths and difficulties that affect the health-related quality of life of particular women are perceived...
Medication errors are the most frequent cause of patient harm. The new view of the role of the patient as a partner in his/her safe care can help reduce the risk of serious errors and omissions by health workers. In the context of sociological investigation, the level of patient involvement in the medication process in checking the accuracy of the medication administered and informing healthcare professionals...
The aim of the study was to validate the priority interventions from the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) and the expected results from the Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) in patients hospitalized in an intensive care unit, with a nursing diagnosis of ineffective breathing pattern.Twenty experts helped with the verification of the priority interventions and expected results. They assigned...
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