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Quality of life in chronic diseases

Recently, there has been a successive increase in interest in the quality of life of chronically ill patients. With the amount of research, new definitions of the concept and specific tools to measure it are emerging. A review of the literature indicates a reduction in quality ...

Psychophysical functioning and quality of life in oncology patients

Introduction. The aim of the present study was to establish the relationship between type of treatment and quality of life in oncology patients and to examine factors that differentiate patients' quality of life at the level of physical, cognitive, emotional and social functioning with...

Quality of life determined by the patient's condition

This article deals with the analysis of quality of life taking into account health status. The authors define the term quality of life. They characterise quality of life using subjective as well as objective instruments. They devote considerable attention to generic questionnaires (generic...

Quality of life of chronically ill elderly patients

Chronic illness is itself a source of negative tensions and emotions and, as such, predictively generates lower quality of life. Research on the consequences of chronic illness is increasingly moving away from an exclusively biomedical model of assessing ...

Quality of life of chronically ill elderly patients

Over the past decade or so, significant progress has been made in the fields of medicine, nursing and the social sciences regarding research on health-related quality of life. The interest in this issue is linked to the recognition and acceptance of a new model of ...

Chronic diseases. Burden, quality of life and economic consequences

Chronic diseases are the leading cause of death in most countries around the world. Due to their nature and aetiology, the risk of chronic diseases increases with age. The increasing prevalence of chronic diseases is also influenced by the ageing of the population....

Living well with a serious illness

The percentage of sick people is increasing, and there are at least two reasons for this. Firstly, medicine is now better able to treat many diseases thanks to developments in medical techniques and procedures. Not so long ago, many diseases had the status of fatal...