Quality of life in hospitalized seniors with psychiatric disorders (a cross-sectional study from the Kromeriz district, Czech Republic)

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Quality of life in hospitalized seniors with psychiatric disorders (a cross-sectional study from the Kromeriz district, Czech Republic)

Original language description

Background: The quality of life is one of tools used for a comprehensive evaluation of provided health care services. Unlike medical specialties such as oncology or transplantation medicine where maintaining or improving the quality of life has been a traditional challenge, these issues are relatively new to gerontopsychiatric practice. The article is a contribution to research into the quality of life in hospitalized seniors with psychiatric disorders. Methods and results: We designed a cross-sectionalstudy involving 297 patients in two study groups from two main health care institutions in the Kromeriz District, the Psychiatric Hospital Kromeriz and St. Vincent de Paul Hospital. The WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire, MMSE, GDS, patient medical records, interviews and psychiatric assessment were used in the study. Generally, low ability to complete the questionnaires was observed in both studied groups and a low quality of life in hospitalized seniors was revealed, together with a high preva

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AN - Psychology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2009

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Biomedical Papers-Olomouc

ISSN

1213-8118

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

153

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

4

Pages from-to

315-318

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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