Kontakt, 2013 (vol. 15), issue 4

EditorialEditorial

Alan Bulava, Sylva Bártlová

Kontakt 2013, 15(4):357  

Tension between the attributed importance and the realization possibilities of nurse's labour roleNursing

Simona Krupková, Zuzana Havrdová

Kontakt 2013, 15(4):359-369 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2013.043  

The management of human resources in the field of nursing quality must be supported by enthusiastic and responsible attitude of nurses towards their own role on one hand, and it must create conditions for fulfilling this role on the other hand. Possible discrepancy between the importance nurses attribute to different aspects of their role and the perception of the possibility to put them into effect rise the risk of discontentment which is a signal for targeted interventions into quality management. A quantitative research realised in April 2012 in a selected hospital focused on this discrepancy. The target group were nurses working on the wards of...

The issue of the performance of activities of daily living in patients with peripheral arterial diseaseNursing

Valérie Tóthová, Helena Hradová, František Dolák, Věra Olišarová, Lukáš Martinek, Jiří Kaas

Kontakt 2013, 15(4):370-378 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2013.044  

The paper introduces the reader to the issue of the performance of activities of daily living in patients with peripheral arterial disease. This disease of the lower limbs is the atherothrombotic syndrome, in which there is a progressive narrowing of the arteries of the legs. On the basis of ischemia, tissues of the lower limbs suffer from the lack of oxygen and nutrients, which causes cramps, fatigue, pain, or a sort of contraction in lower limbs, occurring during exercise and at rest disappearing. Manifested symptoms have more or less influence on the performance of daily activities of individuals. The paper presents partial results of the research...

Validation study of nursing diagnosis "Fear in hospitalized children"Nursing

Lenka Mazalová, Zdeňka Mikšová, Jana Kameníčková

Kontakt 2013, 15(4):379-386 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2013.045  

The aim of the research was clinical validation of 34 defining features and 8 related factors of nursing diagnosis Fear NANDA-International in hospitalized children aged 6-16. The validation of diagnostic elements was determined by Fehring's model of clinical diagnostic validity (Clinical Diagnostic Validity Model, CDV). Clinical assessment was implemented by two experts who were chosen according to modified Fehring's criteria of experts' choice for the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. In individual different age group of children the same degree and different degree of validity component of diagnosis Fear was found. The compliance relates to...

Validity of defining characteristics of chronic confusionNursing

Gabriela Vörösová, Dana Zrubcová, Andrea Solgajová

Kontakt 2013, 15(4):387-395 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2013.046  

The paper aims to nursing diagnosis of Chronic confusion (00129) from NANDA-I (North American Nursing Diagnosis Association International) in conditions of selected workplaces. The sample was made up of 93 experts. An expert was considered to be a nurse with minimum 4 points according to modified Fehring criteria for the Czech Republic and Slovakia.The Ferhing Diagnostic Content Validity Model was used for content validity. Importance of defining characteristics was analyzed by the validity instrument containing 13 items (9 defining characteristics of Chronic confusion (00129) from NANDA-I, 3 items of MMSE (Mini-Mental State Examination: Folstein...

Model of clinical balance in nursing process (pre-research)Nursing

Jana Marečková, Soňa Bocková, Petra Stefanová, Lenka Mazalová, Radka Matějková, Jana Zapletalová

Kontakt 2013, 15(4):396-405 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2013.047  

The aim of this contribution is to present pilot research of accuracy of clinical balance in teaching students the particular steps of nursing process. The pilot study includes set of 15 full-time students of the Bachelor study branch General Nurse. For each step of the nursing process were prepared sets of records whose content and structure were motivated by principles OPT model of clinical balance of the authors Pesut and Herman. The protocols were used to record defining characteristics, relating or risk factors NANDA International, which were concluded by students from the patient's description (case interpretation). Further to recorded diagnostic...

Conception of ten social determinants of healthHealth and Social Sciences - Review

Iva Brabcová, Jitka Vacková

Kontakt 2013, 15(4):406-412 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2013.048  

Each human should have the opportunity to live a fully-fledged life. Nevertheless, there exist differences among people as for their attitude to health and health care use. The roots of this inequality often lay in social-economic conditions. The conception of ten social determinants of health looks for the primary causes of these differences and suggests strategies that lead to rising equality in the society. Among important social determinants that influence the health of an individual belongs the social gradient (social grade of an individual in the society) or their life conditions in childhood. There are several factors that contribute to the...

Determinants of particular types of staff communication in residential facilities for seniorsHealth and Social Sciences - Original article

Ingrid Štegmannová, Zuzana Havrdová, Jiří Šafr

Kontakt 2013, 15(4):413-421 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2013.049  

Communication is an important part of team cooperation in an organization and also one of the conditions for setting high-quality processes of individual planning care for clients in social care service. The contribution considers the relationship between three areas of communication, the influence of working environment in the organization and confidence of the staff with the aim to identify closer determinants of particular types of communication. We use the data from questionnaire survey carried out in eight senior homes on the territory of Moravian-Silesian Region. The research set is created by 434 workers of direct care. Different areas of communication...

Family in processes of transformation of societyHealth and Social Sciences - Review

Blahoslav Kraus

Kontakt 2013, 15(4):422-430 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2013.050  

The study deals with the development and transformation of the family from the second half of 20th century till present and analyses the influence of transformation processes in a society. In the first part the author mentions the development trends and changes in the family during the second half of 20th century in Europe and confronts them with the situation in the Czech Republic. In a certain way the development of the family in the Czech Republic delayed copies the development trends coming from northern countries, however, with some dissimilarities in some ways. These changes happened in a considerably unstable environment, thereby natural processes...

Human rights in selected laws related to social workHealth and Social Sciences - Original article

Jana Gabrielová

Kontakt 2013, 15(4):431-444 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2013.051  

The contribution is concerned with the issue of human rights. In the contribution prevails the legal aspect of human right determination with the emphasis on the sphere of social work.The aim of the work is to identify common attributes and differences of human right determination in the laws related to social work in the following countries: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Slovak Republic, the Republic of Indonesia and the Republic of South Africa.For data acquisition we used the qualitative content analysis of documents. Prior to the beginning of the analysis we created a professional literature based on a priori...

Question of benefit of religiosity/spirituality to quality of life of Czech seniorsHealth and Social Sciences - Original article

Lucie Vidovićová, Věra Suchomelová

Kontakt 2013, 15(4):445-455 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2013.052  

The paper deals with searching connections between religiosity and quality of life in senior population. The topic is coming out of the increasing social stress on searching ways how to best support the concept of quality of life within individual and population aging. Pursuant to findings of many foreign studies, which mainly document very positive correlation, we have been proving whether and to what extent is religiosity respectively spirituality an intervening force for quality of life of Czech seniors. The first part of the paper summarizes theoretical conceptions of the terms religiosity, spirituality and quality of life and their mutual interaction....

Physical activity in school-aged children in the area of Central SlovakiaHealth and Social Sciences - Original article

Mária Kožuchová, Martina Bašková

Kontakt 2013, 15(4):456-462 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2013.053  

Physical activity should be the natural part of the way of life in school children and adolescents. Physical activity has a positive impact on health of adolescents. Project Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) is one of the first international cross sectional studies focused on health of adolescents and their behaviour relating to health. The aim of the article is to present the incidence of physical activity in school-aged children and adolescents in the area of Central Slovakia. The data collection was carried out at 25 primary schools and two eight-year grammar schools in regions of Žilina and Banská Bystrica in the period May to June...

Cantharidin: natural bioactive molecule with a long historyBiomedicine - Review

Jiří Patočka, Kamil Kuča

Kontakt 2013, 15(4):463-469 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2013.054  

Cantharidin, a vesicant produced by insects in the order Coleoptera, has a long history both in folk and traditional medicine. Cantharidin, terpenoid of 7-oxabicyclo-[2.2.1]-heptane type, is a poisonous chemical compound secreted by many species of blister beetle (Meloidae), and most notably by the Spanish fly, Lytta vesicatoria. In dermatology, diluted solutions of cantharidin can be used as a topical medication for the treatment of benign epithelial growths: to remove warts and to treat the small papules of Molluscum contagiosum. The potential of cantharidin for adverse effects has led to its inclusion in a list of hazardous...

Tribulus terrestris - discussed phytopharmaconBiomedicine - Review

Zdeňka Navrátilová, Jiří Patočka

Kontakt 2013, 15(4):470-477 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2013.055  

Tribulus terrestris (caltrop) is a flowering plant of the family Zygophyllaceae, native to subtropical and tropical regions of the Old World, in Southern Europe, Southern Asia, throughout Africa, and Australia. Tribulus terrestris has been long used in the traditional Chinese and Indian medicine for the treatment of various ailments and is popular for the improvement of sexual functions in a human. Lately, it's one of the most discussed herbs. Studies on the active substances of Tribulus terrestris led to the isolation of many biologically active compounds: steroidal saponins of furostanol and spirostanol type, flavonoids...

Zpráva z Mezinárodního pediatrického kongresu v MelbourneNews

Lubomír Kukla

Kontakt 2013, 15(4):478-479