Occupational Activity After Renal Transplantation vs Quality of Life, Personality Profile, and Stress Coping Styles

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (8) ◽  
pp. 2423-2429
Author(s):  
Marta Grubman-Nowak ◽  
Maria Jeżewska ◽  
Joanna Szafran-Dobrowolska ◽  
Alicja Dębska Ślizień ◽  
Marcin Renke
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Renal Transplantation ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Occupational Activity ◽  
Stress Coping ◽  
Personality Profile

scholarly journals 104 - Awareness of Dementia and Coping to Preserve Quality of Life: A Five-Year Longitudinal Narrative Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (S1) ◽  
pp. 8-8
Author(s):  
K. Thorsen ◽  
M. C. N. Dourado ◽  
A. Johannessen
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Adaptive Function ◽  
Narrative Study ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
The Moment ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Scientific Fields ◽  
Multidimensional Concept

AbstractBackground:Awareness of dementia is examined in different scientific fields as significant for assessment of diagnosis, and for treatment and adaptation to the disease. There are very few longitudinal studies of individual experiences of awareness among people with dementia, related to quality of life.Aim:To examine how younger people (< 65 years) with dementia (YOD) express awareness of the dementia and how, over time, they seem to handle awareness as a strategy to preserve quality of life.Method:A longitudinal qualitative study with individuals with YOD was performed with interviews every six months over five years for a maximum of ten interviews. The interviews were analysed by modified grounded theory.Findings:Awareness is a complex, multidimensional concept. Awareness of dementia is predisposed by personality, life history and established coping styles. The main coping styles – live in the moment, ignore the dementia, and make the best of it – seem to be rather consistent throughout the progression of the disease. Transitions in life situation, such as moving to a nursing home, may change the individual’s awareness of dementia.Conclusion:Unawareness of dementia may have an important adaptive function to preserve quality of life. To increase awareness must be approached with reflexivity and the utmost sensitivity.

Stress, coping, uplifts, and quality of life in subtypes of depression: a conceptual frame and emerging data

2002 ◽  
Vol 71 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 121-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arun V Ravindran ◽  
Kimberly Matheson ◽  
Jenna Griffiths ◽  
Zul Merali ◽  
Hymie Anisman
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Stress Coping ◽  
Conceptual Frame

Anxiety and Coping Based on Emotions may contribute to Reduced Quality of Life in Patients with Mild Systolic Heart Failure

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Heart Failure ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Nyha Class ◽  
Systolic Heart Failure ◽  
Emotional Dimension ◽  
And Coping

Aims and Scope: Perception of health related quality of life (QoL) may result from the complex interplay between the severity of the disease and the patient’s psyche. It the present study we assumed that anxiety and coping based on emotions may contribute to reduced QoL in patients with mild systolic heart failure (HF). Methods: We examined mainly males with systolic HF (almost all with ischemic etiology of HF, all classified in the NYHA class II, receiving standard pharmacological treatment). Each patient underwent a physical examination, routine laboratory tests and standard transthoracic echocardiography and completed psychological questionnaires assessing: coping styles, sense of self efficacy, acceptance of illness, optimism and the level of anxiety and QoL (by Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire). Results: Emotion-oriented coping was strongly positively related to an overall score reflecting QoL (r=0.37) as well as to both dimensions of QoL, with exceptionally high correlation with the emotional dimension (r=0.24 and r=0.62, respectively, all p<0.05). More reduced QoL (overall score as well as scores in both analysed dimensions) was significantly (all p<0.05) but weakly (r=-0.21, r=-0.20 and r=-0.26, respectively) related to lower acceptance of the illness. Higher level of anxiety was related to more reduced QoL (all p<0.05). Reduced QoL in emotional dimension was related to the tendency to avoidance-oriented coping (r=0.26, including also a sub style based on distraction, r=0.34) as well as to lower sense of self-efficacy (r=-0.20) and lower level of optimism (r=-0.20, all p<0.05). Conclusion: The results indicate that HF patients are psychologically diverse, which is not related to disease severity. However, QoL was related to emotion-oriented coping and anxiety. Psychological support for patients with HF should be focused on teaching adequate methods of coping and reducing anxiety.

Depression, anxiety, and quality of life in patients undergoing hemodialysis and renal transplantation

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Shirin El-Makawi ◽  
Mohamed Nasreldin ◽  
Nagwan Madbouly ◽  
Sahier El-Khashab ◽  
Ibrahim Sehsah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Renal Transplantation

scholarly journals Health and quality of life vs. occupational activity

2016 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 663-671
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Kowalska ◽  
Szymon Szemik
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Occupational Activity
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