Kontakt 2007, 9(2):277-283 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2007.043

Quality of life of hospitalized patients with infaust prognosisHealth and Social Sciences

Patricia Dobríková*, Jana Olosová
Trnavská univerzita, Fakulta zdravotníctva a sociálnej práce

The target and purpose of palliative medicine is to achieve as high quality of life of dying patients as possible. This means to do everything under conditions where it seems that it is impossible to do anything.
The hospice care is focused on the enhancement of the life quality in incurable patients. Its purpose is the alleviation of the last part of the way of the incurable patient and to provide its quality as high as possible. It is implemented as close to the human being that his/her desires can be read off from his/her face. The dying patient has the best knowledge concerning his needs and thus, it is necessary to listen to what he/she needs and to try to satisfy them as far as possible. The quality of life of incurable patients is enhanced by the fulfilment of biological, psychological, social and spiritual needs.
The purpose of our work was assessment of the quality of life of hospitalized patients with the infaust prognosis. We considered different aspects affecting the quality of life of the dying person, such as the religiousness and family. We examined, whether there is a difference in perceiving the life quality with respect to the gender and age. The main method of the survey inhered in individual interviews with the incurable patients. We employed the method of the life quality assessment SEIQoL.
The abbreviation SEIQoL means Schedule for Evaluation of Individual Quality of Life - system serving for the individual assessment of the life quality. This is a method of determining the life quality, which does not put emphasize on preliminarily established criteria "what is good, appropriate and desirable, etc." but it is particularly based on personal ideas of the subject what he/she considers as important (Křivohlavý, 2002).
The survey was implemented in the facility of a St. Alžběta Hospice in Lubica. The number of subjects was of 30 (16 men and 14 women of 45 to 94 years of age).

Keywords: Life quality; life quality evaluation; incurable patients; dying; palliative care; religiousness; family; values

Received: September 10, 2007; Accepted: October 12, 2007; Published: December 21, 2007  Show citation

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Dobríková P, Olosová J. Quality of life of hospitalized patients with infaust prognosis. Kontakt. 2007;9(2):277-283. doi: 10.32725/kont.2007.043.
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