Who Are Paediatric Speleo Therapy Patients?
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Who Are Paediatric Speleo Therapy Patients?
Original language description
Speleo therapy is a climatic therapy method using the specific cave climate as a natural source for complementary treatment of asthmatic patients reducing their complex pharmaceutical therapy to minimum. The purpose of this contribution is to present the socio-demographic profile of the patients attending speleo therapy in the Paediatric Sanatorium with Speleo Therapy at Ostrov u Macochy, and define their regional distribution across the Czech Republic. The patient profile is based on data of randomly selected (733) patients of the Paediatric Sanatorium with Speleo Therapy at Ostrov u Macochy (by descriptive statistics and graphic visualisation of data). The profile shows prevalence of boy (58.9%) over girl (41.1%) patients, in the most common age group of 5-10 and under repeated therapy in nearly half of the sample cases (48.3%). The most frequent diagnoses include bronchial asthma, recurrent respiratory infections and exercise induced asthma and a considerable part of the patients also suffer from various forms of allergies (74.4%). A prevailing majority of the children shows improvement of their health condition after a speleo therapy session cycle (95.5%) with recommended repetition of the therapy (98.9%). The geographic structure of the patients attending the sanatorium shows prevailing patient recruitment from South Moravia, Moravian Silesia, South Bohemia, Central Bohemia, Vysočina and Prague regions. The results demonstrate the importance of speleo therapy for improving the health of patients.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30304 - Public and environmental health
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Article name in the collection
Proceedings of the International Conference Life in Health 2018: Research and Practice
ISBN
978-80-210-9178-8
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e-ISSN
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Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
42-51
Publisher name
Masarykova univerzita
Place of publication
Brno
Event location
Brno
Event date
Sep 6, 2018
Type of event by nationality
CST - Celostátní akce
UT code for WoS article
000470939400006