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Project code: 3-01-437


PSICHOSOCIAL ADAPTATION IN PATIENTS WITH RESPIRATORY DISEASE


Main researcher: PAVLOVIĆ, MLADEN (35723)



Assistants
Type of research: applied
Duration from: 01/01/91. to 12/31/95.

Papers on project (total): 3
Institution name: Bolnica, Znanstvena jedinica za klinička medicinska istraživanja, Osijek (127)
Department/Institute: Department of Lung Disease
Address: J. Huttlera 4
City: 31000 - Osijek, Croatia
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Phone: 385 (0)54 555-222
Phone: 385 (0)41 234-600

Summary: Any psychic or somatic illness disturbs the biological, psychological and social integrity the patient's personality. Changing the psychic and physical structure of the patient's personality, the disease brings abaut patient's new attitute towards the environment and vice versa. Due to the increasing number of somatic patients, the emphasis is laid on the adequate approach to help them find a possibility of living in such a way that a higher quality of life is achieved. In the authors opinion, the disorders of respiratory organs may well serve as model for testing the effects of patients own evaluation and the importance of somatic phenomena on the social functionality and the quality of the life of the patients. In view of this, we have examined three groups consisting of 100 patients each. The patients in these groups suffered from cronic obstructive lung disease, lung tuberculosis and lung cancer, respectively. The results of the investigation could be used to provide a possibility of planning and conducting adequate measures for a better quality of life of the aboveementioned patients.

Keywords: psychological and social adaptation, quality of life, chronic obstructive lung disease, lung tuberculosis, lung cancer.

Research goals: For the evaluation of the psychological and social adaptation, i. e. social functionality and quality of life in the patients suffering from the respiratory diseases, the following components were investigated: 1. the patients were observed after the incidence of the disease in relation to what degree they were able to recognize and to ascribe importance to the symptoms, to note their seriousness and in relation to the possibility to adapt themselves a) in the family, b) with regard to the healthy measures to be applied, c) socially, d) emotionally, e) at work to the new situation. 2. With regard to the three above-mentioned lung diseases, the objective was to determine the correlation between the external circumstances under which the patients live with the extent of their social and physical disablement, as well as with the extent of their adaptation, while complying with the way of behaviour of the environment they belong to. The contribution of the investigation lies in the fact that this is the first investigation of such a kind in Croatia in terms of the theoretical starting point, the choice of the sample and the instruments applied.


COOPERATION - INSTITUTIONS


  1. Name of institution: Klinika za plućne bolesti "Jordanovac"
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia

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