Cancer is often synonymous with a prolonged and burdensome treatment process for the patient and a deterioration in quality of life (QoL). Attitude towards the disease influences the treatment process and the level of acceptance of the disease determines the patient's well-being, confidence in...
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Cancer pain and somatic symptom burden and quality of life in cancer patients
The aim of the research presented in this paper is to assess the severity of cancer pain in people with cancer, to evaluate the relationship between cancer pain and health-related quality of life in people with cancer in terms of functional...
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 ...
Psychological adjustment to cancer and health-related quality of life in oncology patients
The aim of this study is to assess the impact of psychological adjustment to cancer on health-related quality of life in oncology patients. 100 patients of the Oncology Centre in Warsaw were studied. The type of attitude and strategy associated with adaptation ...
Quality of life assessment in cancer patients - recommendations for staff in oncology and palliative medicine units
Quality of life (QoL) is a multidimensional concept that refers to the situation of patients as assessed by themselves. Although there is no universal definition to date, the concept of QoL has been introduced into medicine. The assessment of QoL is a valuable complement to objective information ...
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...
Quality of life in patients after revascularisation of critical internal carotid artery stenosis
The material presented in the monograph is designed to be used not only by medical and allied health students, but also by vascular surgery specialists, angiologists and interventional radiologists, as well as neuroscience specialists....
Quality of life in mental illness
The paper consists of four chapters. The first is based on an analysis of the literature on the subject - it presents the issue of quality of life, taking into account the origins of the concept, its definition and research in psychology and medicine, especially in...
Quality of life in a family with an infertility problem
Intentional or unintentional childlessness is still not accepted by society. For different people, the desire to have a child appears at different times in life. For some it is stronger, for others weaker, and it often depends on the current situation of the relationship between the two ...
Quality of life in illness. A socio-pedagogical study of individual cases
The aim of the presented book is to attempt to characterise the quality of life of people in a situation of illness, to characterise subjective well-being, the relationship with the immediate environment, as well as the way some institutions function. The problems of this study should ...