Kontakt, 2012 (vol. 14), issue 1
Tradice a perspektiva erudované sestryEditorial
Miloš Velemínský
Kontakt 2012, 14(1):5 
About patient dignityNursing - Review
Jana Wichsová
Kontakt 2012, 14(1):7-13 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2012.002
The concept of the human dignity is employed in ethical codes and it can also be found in the preamble to the bioethical convention. In spite of this, the delimitation of this concept is not uniform. For better understanding of problems of the human dignity, the article deals with different formulations of the term dignity. Persons are considered as carriers of the dignity, but the author explains this concept in terms of consideration of the philosopher Jan Sokol and founder of speech therapy V. E. Frankl. The treatise also deals with characteristics of persons according to catholic Charter of healthcare professionals. Differences in understanding...
Quality of life of patients with bronchogenic lung carcinoma before and after chemotherapyNursing
Olga Dunková, Radka Bužgová
Kontakt 2012, 14(1):14-20 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2012.003
Bronchogenic carcinoma belongs to one of the most frequent oncological diseases in the Czech Republic, particularly in men. Symptoms of the disease or side effects of the therapy can reduce the quality of life of patients. The target of the research was to determine the quality of life of patients with lung carcinoma before and after the chemotherapy. The further purpose was to find effects of the patient gender on perceiving the quality of life before and after the therapy. The sample group included 103 patients aged 40 to 80 years. For the data accumulation, Czech versions of standardized EORTC questionnaires QLQ-C30 and QLQ-LC13 for the measurement...
Nursing diagnosis "Death anxiety" in Czech nursing practiceNursing
Helena Kisvetrová
Kontakt 2012, 14(1):21-29 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2012.004
The target of the article presented here was to find how the nurses in the Czech Republic identify the anxiety about death in patients and whether they use the nursing diagnosis "Death anxiety" in nursing plans for patients.The group included 468 general nurses from hospices, oncological and haemato-oncological departments, institutions for long-term treatment, old people's homes and homecare agencies in the Czech Republic. A semi-structured, non-standardized questionnaire with Likert scales was employed. The research was implemented from January to May 2011. The results were processed by the use of the descriptive statistics, squared chi test...
Contents validation of nursing diagnosis "Fear"Nursing
Renáta Zeleníková, Yvetta Vrublová, Darja Jarošová, Katarína Žiaková
Kontakt 2012, 14(1):30-38 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2012.005
In the NANDA-International classification system, the nursing diagnosis "Fear" (code 00148) is included in the Domain 9: Stress management. It is defined as an emotional reaction to a threat, which is perceived as a danger and contains 34 defining characteristics.The target of the research was validation of the treatment diagnosis "Fear" in the Czech and Slovak Republics, i.e. determination of defining characteristics considered by Czech and Slovak nurses - experts - as principal and minor ones.The Fehring diagnostic contents validity was chosen for the validation of the nursing diagnosis "Fear". An assessment tool was prepared for the data...
Importance of European volunteer activities in life of young peopleHealth and Social Sciences - Original article
Lucia Cintulová, Libuša Radková
Kontakt 2012, 14(1):39-49 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2012.006
The volunteer (unpaid) work and opportunity to perform it in the society is considered as an unavoidable assumption and also standard of democracy. It can also play an important role in forming the system of values for young people. It offers the young people with experience and skill, which are later useful in their professional life, supports their cooperation and communication skills and acts as the opposite to the style of life solely aimed at the consumption. The authors present results of observations of Slovak volunteers engaged in long-term European volunteer services in EU countries. The target of the research was to establish the motivation...
Identification of topical problems in performance of public custodian functionHealth and Social Sciences - Original article
Lubica Juríčková, Jaroslav Filka, Kateřina Ivanová
Kontakt 2012, 14(1):50-58 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2012.007
In the Czech Republic, the number of social workers (henceforth public custodians) taking care of adult persons (aged 18 years and older) having no or restricted legal capacity is being increased (Juríčková et al., 2011, p. 280). The adult persons having no or restricted legal capacity (henceforth persons in custody) are exposed to a larger degree of negligent care or undignified treatment, which makes them a risk group (Ivanová et al., 2009, p. 6). In this contribution, results of qualitative research examination are presented, where the target was to find and analyze topical problems in the performance of the function of public custodians. The purpose...
Consensus and conflict in families taking care of seniorsHealth and Social Sciences - Original article
Pavla Procházková, Romana Trusinová
Kontakt 2012, 14(1):59-67 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2012.008
The authors deal with the inter-generation solidarity under conditions of taking care of seniors who are not self-sufficient. They were particularly focused on studying one aspect of the family solidarity concept: solidarity of agreement. They tried to combine conflict and consensual attitudes to this problem and thus to characterize the nature of conflicts and harmony in families taking care of seniors. The target of the study was mapping of relationships between the life harmony and manifested conflicts between persons providing and accepting the care and finding differences in this field between families taking care of seniors under different conditions.After...
Anxiolytics of natural origin I. Originally occurring plants and plants cultivated in the Czech RepublicBiomedicine - Review
Zdeňka Navrátilová
Kontakt 2012, 14(1):68-84 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2012.009
Anxious disorders belong to most frequently encountered mental disorders in general, since up to 25% of the population suffers by a clinically important anxious disorder at least once in a lifetime. Anxiolytics and antidepressants are particularly used to treat anxiety. and insomnia is treated with sedatives and hypnotics. There are a number of products for the treatment of the anxiety, but in benzodiazepine-group anxiolytics, there is a risk of the tolerance and addiction development. Thus, a great attention is being paid to the investigation of new medicines without these side effects. There are a number of plants, which have been traditionally used...
Aflatoxins - toxic effects in manBiomedicine - Review
František Malíř, Vladimír Ostrý
Kontakt 2012, 14(1):85-93 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2012.010
Aflatoxins are secondary metabolites of toxinogenic fibrous microscopic fungi (moulds) of the genus Aspergillus, particularly of the species Aspergillus flavus (producer of aflatoxin B1/ (henceforth AFB1/ and AFB2) and Aspergillus parasiticus (producer of AFB1, AFB2, AFG1 and AFG2), which occur in foodstuffs and forages. Aflatoxins are obviously most known and most thoroughly examined mycotoxins worldwide. In terms of their chemical nature, they are polycyclic, unsaturated, high-substituted coumarins. About 20 aflatoxins have been still identified, among which only AFB1, AFB2, AFG1 and AFG2 occur in nature. AFB1 occurs most frequently and is most important...
Humic substances in balneology. Contemporary situation and perspectivesBiomedicine - Original article
Petr Petr, Miroslav Verner, Hana Kalová, Brigita Janečková, Olga Vačkářová, Ivana Zezulková
Kontakt 2012, 14(1):94-98 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2012.011
Humic substances (HS), products of the decomposition of organic materials in peloids, present also in extract from them, or synthetically produced, are chemically/phytochemically effective principles of a surprisingly wide scale of beneficial biological effects particularly finding their application in balneology. Peloids (a term derived from the Greek word pelos - mud) are mud-like materials employed in medicine for therapeutic purposes. They are classified depending on contents of humic substances to peats, moors, moor earths and muds. They belong to one of natural medicinal sources recognized by the state. Their highest contents (of above 50%) can...
Pneumokokové infekceVaria
Jan Kylian, Helena Starcová
Kontakt 2012, 14(1):99-102 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2012.012