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Background: One of the most important predispositions of successful treatment is the patient’s collaboration. The article is focused on problematical patient’s collaboration with healthcare professionals; the most frequent reasons of the patient’s lack of collaboration during the disorder period are described, and the possibility of the improvement of patient collaboration based on high quality and well planned education implementation is mentioned. The goal was to identify to what degree chronically ill pat...

Hospice care is a specialized, integrated form of health, social and psychological care provided to patients of all indication, diagnostic and age groups for which a reasonable life expectancy is judged to be less than six months based on reasonable medical judgment and for which active treatment has been discontinued. It is essential to treat pain and care for other symptoms of the terminal stage of the disease, as well as to address the psychological, social and spiritual needs and problems of the sick and conse...

Introduction: One of the objectives of complex education of diabetic patients is to prevent the development of diabetic foot syndrome. All diabetics, including seniors, should undergo preventive education on complex leg care. Awareness and compliance with appropriate foot care, which also includes the selection of high-quality prophylactic footwear, assists in the diabetic foot syndrome. In the paper we focused on the use of preventive footwear for the elderly people. In this article the attention was focused on t...

Objective: The aim of this study was to find out there is a link between ZG and hypertension. Methods: In the electronic databases Ebsco Academic Search Complete were searched for primary studies that used validated measures to assess health literacy in patients with hypertension. The search for the research studies was based on a combination of the following keywords: health literacy, hypertension, measurement, information, and knowledge. Exclusion criteria: not a primary study, does not concern research on hyper...

{{Background: }} The aim of the study was to find out the way of providing information preferred by patients after implantation of vascular prosthesis in lower extremities or abdominal aorta in order to develop a new educational material. {{Methods: }} The participants involved in the study had achieved at least 24 points of Mini Mental State Examination and had undertaken the surgery. The study was agreed by the institutions`s ethical committee and all the participants who had been informed about the study purpos...

The aim of our research is to create an adequate preoperative education in order to reduce anxiety of patients, therefor it is necessary to understand their emotional experiences, cognitive processes and behavioral aspects as well. This article presents the development of a measure of pain in patients in whom vascular procedures using prosthetic grafts are indicated. The test battery is based on the Dynamic Model of Psychological Processes in Chronic Pain primarily used in clinical practice. Dynamic Model includes...