Kontakt 2008, 10(1):140-149 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2008.020

The concept of SEIQoL as a tool for the assesment of the quality of lifeHealth and Social Sciences

Marek Zeman

Bertiny lázně Třeboň, s. r. o.

Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích, Zdravotně sociální fakulta, katedra klinických oborů

This work is focused on a research concept of SEIQoL (The Schedule for the Evaluation of Individual Quality of Life), i. e. on a programme of the evaluation of individually understood quality of life. In the introduction, it attempts to delimit or define the concept of the quality of life and elucidate general approaches to the evaluation of the quality of life in terms of psychology, sociology and medicine. It informs on principal conceptual proposals of the SEIQoL concept, i. e. on the individual approach to the evaluation, specification of five most important areas of life (life targets) in respondents together with percent measure of the satisfaction and importance attributed to them by respondents. However, it particularly explains in detail and graphically represents a particular method of the data evaluation in this approach. By way of illustration, it also presents a method of the use of the SEIQoL concept on a sample of ten respondents with Bechtěrev disease, who participated in the therapy in the spa Bertiny lázně in Třeboň in January 2008. The index of the quality of life in these respondents was on average of 64.9%; differences in the perception of the quality of life were compared and discussed depending on the gender and different age groups. Problems of the objectivizing the quality of life, dynamic nature of the concept of the quality of life itself and advantages and disadvantages of the use of the SEIQoL concept itself are conclusively considered.

Keywords: quality of life; concept of SEIQoL; respondent; life target; VAS

Received: March 3, 2008; Accepted: April 25, 2008; Prepublished online: June 27, 2008; Published: July 27, 2008  Show citation