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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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 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....

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...

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....

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...

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 ...

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 ...

Dr Ewa Baum's monograph is one of the few studies on the quality of life of patients undergoing renal replacement therapy. With the longer survival of the general population (...), as well as the epidemic of civilisation diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease, chronic...

The criterion for a patient to be considered actively treated in a multicentre study is that the patient has taken at least 80% of the due dose of the study drug. The beneficial effect of the drugs proven in the studies can therefore be expected if patients adhere to the...

Non-adherence to pharmacotherapy and lifestyle recommendations - is the deliberate non-adherence to the recommendations of the therapeutic team (total or partial, permanent or intermittent). This phenomenon poses many dangers, especially in the management of chronic diseases....

Recent years have seen an accelerated ageing of the Polish population. The consequences of this process are leading to a sharp increase in the number of people with chronic diseases, in particular - patients with multimorbidity.....