Kontakt 2009, 11(1):22-31 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2009.004

Attitude of nursery students to chronic dermatosis - psoriasisNursing

Martina Tomašíková^*, Želmíra Fetisovová

Univerzita Komenského v Bratislavě, Jesseniova lekárska fakulta v Martine, Ústav nelekárskych študijných programov

The probability of the occurrence of a poor health condition in chronic patients can also be associated with insufficient support from the social environment. Ever increasing body of evidence indicates that this may be an important factor in the resulting health condition (Kaplan, 1996; Bartlová, 2005; Křivohlavý 2001). The support on the part of the social environment was defined in many ways. In certain studies, it is characterized as a count of social contacts maintained by a certain person, i.e. extent of the social network. More recent studies demonstrate requirements for a solidarity and unity with the social communication network and mutual obligatoriness. The social network belongs to important predictors of the life span. Members of the social network include people, who are fond of us, who respect us and who can always be considered reliable.
In our work, we are interested in accepting of and tolerance to chronic patients on the part of students of nursery.
The group included 287 students of the bachelor and master studies in the study programme of nursery.
The questionnaire was administered by direct contacts with respondents and due to this, a 100% rate of return was provided. It consisted of 12 items: 6 closed, 4 semi-open and 2 open. In the second part, we presented to respondents 6 particular situations, which they can encounter within the framework of the common social life. These situations were based on results from a questionnaire presented to 128 patients with psoriasis within the framework of solving our grant projects of the JLF UK and MFN.
The results obtained indicate that the respondents are mostly well informed about the type of the disease. In their surroundings, 78 % students came in contact with the disease; 85 % knew the disease before starting their studies; 37 % were affected by their studies in their view of the disease; 89 % students would not like to deal with dermal diseases in practice and 11% are able to admit their professional orientation in this field, too.

Keywords: support by social environment; quality of life; psoriasis; tolerance; accepting; social tolerance

Received: November 7, 2008; Accepted: March 30, 2009; Published: May 27, 2009  Show citation