New Insights into Some Old and Some New Issues
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
New Insights into Some Old and Some New Issues
Original language description
Comparisons of people with thyroid gland disease and healthy people, and longitudinal follow up of patients were carried out. In some psychosocial aspects the patients with thyreopathy differ from the general population, which does not suffer from this disease, independently of the thyreopathy type. Statistically, the patients were significantly more anxious and perceived higher social support from family when compared with the control group. The control group scored significantly higher in locus of control and on the edge of significance they felt more satisfied with life than the patients. During the six-month follow up after the surgery, some indicators of quality of life were improved. We found a statistically significant decrease in anxiety and social support. Comprehensibility and the feeling of having my life firmly in my hands increased on the edge of significance. One patient with cancer we even saw so called posttraumatic growth. Results of total quality of life calculated fr
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
AE - Management, administration and clerical work
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
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Publication year
2012
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Psychosocial Factors in Patients with Thyroid Disease
ISBN
978-953-51-0221-2
Number of pages of the result
40
Pages from-to
279-318
Number of pages of the book
318
Publisher name
InTech
Place of publication
Rijeka, Croatia
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