Kontakt, 2012 (vol. 14), issue 2
Očkování z pohledu zkušeného pediatraEditorial
Miloš Velemínský
Kontakt 2012, 14(2):125-128 
Concept of Czech professional nursing in context of worldwide nursingNursing - Review
Eva Marková
Kontakt 2012, 14(2):129-136 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2012.014
The history of nursing was characterized by different periods from intuitive nursing, nursing activities associated with church orders and period of educational stage in nursing to the modern nursing concept. Considerations of nursing are necessarily associated with a wider discussion concerning philosophical foundations and biopsychosocial and spiritual aspects of taking care of healthy and diseased humans. The definition of nursing was not simple, since theorists of nursing had to take into account an enormous diversity of the nursing care, which involves taking care of healthy individuals, diseased persons as well as groups of persons. The nursing...
Evaluation of mentors in view of nursing studentsNursing
Věra Šrubařová, Renáta Zeleníková
Kontakt 2012, 14(2):137-144 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2012.015
Clinical practice is an important part of the qualification study of nursing, which is performed under professional supervision of mentors. The evaluation of mentors brings a contribution to determining the monitoring efficacy.The target of the work presented here was to determine how the nursing students evaluate mentors of clinical practice in four fields of interest as follows: relationships between mentors and students, mentor personality, style of conducting the professional practice, teaching process.The group included 169 students of second and third years of the full-time study in the bachelor study branch General Nurse at three selected...
Colorectal cancer preventive programme in the Czech Republic and ScotlandNursing
Helena Kisvetrová, Lucie Gabrhelíková
Kontakt 2012, 14(2):145-151 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2012.016
The target of the research probe was a comparison of information and participation of Czech and Scottish citizens in the colorectal cancer preventive programme. Partial targets mapped risk behaviour of respondents in association with the colorectal cancer development, participation in preventive examinations and taking advantage of the test for occult bleeding in the stools.A group of 120 respondents (60 Czech and 60 Scottish citizens) aged 50 and 69 years was obtained through the mediation of Czech and Scottish students of nursing, who distributed a questionnaire to their parents and grandparents. Czech and English versions of a semi-structured,...
Effects of age on olfaction and on assessment of present nature of odoursNursing
Pavlína Brothánková, Zuzana Kostková, Jan Vodička, Arnošt Pellant
Kontakt 2012, 14(2):152-158 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2012.017
Deterioration of the olfaction reduces the safety and quality of human life. Olfaction disorders occur more frequently at old age but effects of the age on perceiving the pleasant quality of substances determining the odour has not yet been completely investigated. The target of the study presented here was an evaluation of the olfaction in seniors by using a standard method of subjective olfactometry and comparing the assessment of the pleasant nature of odours with a younger age group.Total of 79 persons (30 men and 49 women) aged 53 years on average were examined. Forty of them belonged to an age group of 65 years plus. The control group included...
Problems of the implementation of taking family care of persons with reduced self-sufficiencyHealth and Social Sciences - Original article
Petra Formánková, Aleš Novotný, Marcela Efenberková
Kontakt 2012, 14(2):159-170 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2012.018
Families have always provided help for relatives who needed it due to their diseases or old age. This resoluteness of families is still present at the time being. We can speak about informal caregivers, who satisfy needs of their relatives in their natural domestic environment without professional knowledge. By this care they try to provide dignified and quality life of non-independent persons. The willingness of the family to take care of a person with a reduced self-sufficiency means not only time consumption but also physical and mental loading to the caregiver and giving up his/her own priorities. The target of the text was to outline the currently...
Prostitution as a profession (View of women working in sex-business)Health and Social Sciences - Original article
Alena Kajanová, Milena Mutlová
Kontakt 2012, 14(2):171-176 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2012.019
The article deals with perceiving sex-business by the women involved who consider they form of income as a profession. It has been compiled in terms of their narrative testimonies which made them possible to provide appropriate self-evaluation and detachment. In the theoretical elimination, we characterized prostitution in the contemporary public as well as professional discourse, where sex-business is perceived as socially pathological phenomenon and the prostitution is not accepted as a legal profession. Thereafter, we mention forms of the prostitution and reasons for entering the sex-business environment.The empirical part of the article includes...
Medical model - biomedical discourse upon social workHealth and Social Sciences - Original article
Jana Levická
Kontakt 2012, 14(2):177-184 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2012.020
The social work, as a branch of theory and practice renewed in the Slovak Republic 20 years ago, searches for its identity, providing that the existing discourse oscillates between attempts to define it as a scientific discipline, which is associated with efforts aimed at a consensus concerning paradigm or paradigms of the social works, and attempts to establish the social work just as a specific field of practice, which does not call for its own scientific and research basis. In this quarrel, domestic authors support their opinions by scientific authorities and widely accepted foreign theoretical sources, which is legitimate, since there is still...
Health risks of chloropropanols in foodstuffsBiomedicine - Review
Jiří Patočka, Šárka Andělová, Mirwais Bakhshi, Petr Brulík, Andrea Dalihodová, Petra Holinková, Jakub Hrdina, Jitka Josková, Lucie Jozová, Petra Kissová, Michaela Kluiberová, Iva Lichtenbergová, Monika Litvanová, Sundano Kutoma Lubasi, Michaela Manová, Marie Maxová, Nawa Mubiana, Adam Novák, Petra Nováková, Kateřina Podlenová, Lucie Růžičková, Lenka Svátková, Markéta Turečková, Lucie Vinklerová, Alena Vlášková, Ondřej Zajíc
Kontakt 2012, 14(2):185-199 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2012.021
Certain chlorinated propanols occur as contaminants in some foodstuffs, particularly in plant protein hydrolyzates. The most frequently occurring contaminant from this chemical group known as chloropropanol is 3-monochloropropane-1,2-diol (3-MCPD). Together with 1,3-dichloropropanol (1,3-DCP), it was identified as a substance produced in the manufacture of spicy admixtures through the acid hydrolysis of plant proteins. 3-MCPD is a contaminant encountered in the course of the meal preparation and it was first found in different spices, such as plant protein hydrolyzates and soya or oyster sauce. 3-MCPD and 1,3-DCP can also be produced in foodstuffs...
Anxiolytics of natural origin II. Exotic plantsBiomedicine - Review
Zdeňka Navrátilová
Kontakt 2012, 14(2):200-217 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2012.022
The article presented here is being published next to the previous article Anxiolytics of natural Origin I, which discussed plants originally occurring in the Czech Republic and plants cultivated othere. The second part summarizes knowledge concerning plants, which are neither original nor commonly cultivated in the Czech Republic. These are the species as follows: Atractylodes macrocephala, Bacopa monnieri, Centella asiatica, Citrus spp., Clitoria ternatea, Echium amoenum, Erythrina mulungu, Morinda citrifolia, Myristica fragrans, Ocimum sanctum, Panax spp., Passiflora incarnata, Piper methysticum, Sceletium tortuosum, Withania somnifera, Zingiber...
Asthma bronchiale and smokingBiomedicine - Review
Dana Lauková
Kontakt 2012, 14(2):218-230 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2012.023
Effects of active as well as passive smoking are frequently marginally described in terms of possible development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (CHOPD). According to the World Health Organization, there are 1.25 milliard smokers worldwide; two thirds of them live in developing countries. There are a number of advanced countries, where at least two thirds of adults are smokers. The smokers mainly include people with low income and low level of education. The assessment of real effects of smoking on asthmatic patients is thus complicated. Trials, which did not exclude smoking asthmatic patients from the research, supported a strong association...
Recenze na knihyReviews
Eva Nechlebová, Rostislav Čevela, Libuše Čeledová
Kontakt 2012, 14(2):231-233
Diagnostické nástroje pomohou zrakově postiženým dětemNews
Alena Binterová
Kontakt 2012, 14(2):234 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2012.025
Přečetli jsme za Vás...Reviews
Kontakt 2012, 14(2):235-238