scholarly journals Quality of Life Theory II. Quality of Life as the Realization of Life Potential: A Biological Theory of Human Being

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 1041-1049 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soren Ventegodt ◽  
Joav Merrick ◽  
Niels Jorgen Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Life Questionnaire ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Living Matter ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Mechanical Models

This review presents one of the eight theories of the quality of life (QOL) used for making the SEQOL (self-evaluation of quality of life) questionnaire or the quality of life as realizing life potential. This theory is strongly inspired by Maslow and the review furthermore serves as an example on how to fulfill the demand for an overall theory of life (or philosophy of life), which we believe is necessary for global and generic quality-of-life research.Whereas traditional medical science has often been inspired by mechanical models in its attempts to understand human beings, this theory takes an explicitly biological starting point. The purpose is to take a close view of life as a unique entity, which mechanical models are unable to do. This means that things considered to be beyond the individual's purely biological nature, notably the quality of life, meaning in life, and aspirations in life, are included under this wider, biological treatise. Our interpretation of the nature of all living matter is intended as an alternative to medical mechanism, which dates back to the beginning of the 20th century. New ideas such as the notions of the human being as nestled in an evolutionary and ecological context, the spontaneous tendency of self-organizing systems for realization and concord, and the central role of consciousness in interpreting, planning, and expressing human reality are unavoidable today in attempts to scientifically understand all living matter, including human life.

scholarly journals TRABALHO DOCENTE: REFLEXÕES SOBRE A SAÚDE E O SOFRIMENTO PSÍQUICO DO PROFESSOR

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glaé Corrêa Machado ◽  
Andréia Mendes dos Santos ◽  
Renata Santos da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Work Activity ◽  
Starting Point

Este texto versa sobre as implicações do trabalho docente na saúde e qualidade de vida do professor. A partir da concepção de que o trabalho é uma atividade fundamental para o desenvolvimento dos seres humanos, consideramos que o ato de trabalhar transforma a si mesmo no e pelo trabalho, relacionando-se diretamente com identidade social. Por outro lado, observa-se também que a centralidade que este ocupa na rotina cotidiana da vida humana, em especial da categoria, impõe uma relação conflituosa, pois, apesar de carregada de diferentes investimentos, as condições e as exigências do trabalho também são causas de doenças físicas e mentais. Nesta atividade laboral, articulam-se diretamente relações interpessoais, envolvendo experiências emocionais constantes. É um campo profissional onde a subjetividade dos afetos emerge no cotidiano, em relações diárias, envolvendo, na maioria das situações, crianças e jovens em desenvolvimento. Como tese, sustenta-se que estes movimentos, que possuem reflexo direto na organização dos processos de trabalho, produzem graves consequências sobre a saúde dos professores, em seus aspectos físicos ou psíquicos. Como ponto de partida, consideramos os resultados de um estudo que analisou aspectos referentes à saúde dos docentes da educação básica de sete estados brasileiros, entre outros, articulando uma discussão com uma análise qualitativa de diários de estágio em Psicologia Escolar. Nossas considerações ampliam as questões que se impõe ao docente na contemporaneidade e que lhes causam desgaste e consequente sofrimento psíquico.Palavras-chave: Trabalho docente. Saúde do trabalhador. Qualidade de vida.ABSTRACTThis text deals with the implications of teaching work on the teacher's health and quality of life. From the conception that work is a fundamental activity for the development of human beings, we consider that the act of working transforms itself into and through work, relating directly to social identity. On the other hand, it is also observed that the centrality it occupies in the daily routine of human life, especially in the category, imposes a conflicting relationship, because despite being loaded with different investments, work conditions and demands are also causes of illness. physical and mental. In this work activity, interpersonal relationships are directly articulated, involving constant emotional experiences. It is a professional field where the subjectivity of affections emerges in daily life, in daily relationships, involving in most situations children and young people in development. As a thesis, it is argued that these movements, which have a direct reflection on the organization of work processes, have serious consequences on teachers' health, in their physical or mental aspects. As a starting point, we consider the results of a study that analyzed aspects related to the health of basic education teachers from seven Brazilian states, among others, articulating a discussion with a qualitative analysis of internship diaries in School Psychology. Our considerations broaden the questions that are imposed on the teacher in contemporary times that cause them to wear and consequent psychic suffering.Keywords: Teaching work. Worker's health. Quality of life.

scholarly journals Psychometric properties of the St George’s Respiratory Questionnaire in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: insights from the INPULSIS trials

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. e000278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey J Swigris ◽  
Hilary Wilson ◽  
Dirk Esser ◽  
Craig S Conoscenti ◽  
Wibke Stansen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis ◽  
Pulmonary Fibrosis ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Life Questionnaire ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Patient Reported ◽  
St George's Respiratory Questionnaire ◽  
Domain Scores

IntroductionWe evaluated the psychometric properties of the St George’s Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ) in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) using data from the two INPULSIS trials.MethodsData from 1061 patients treated with nintedanib or placebo were pooled. Internal consistency, test–retest reliability, construct validity, known-groups validity, responsiveness and responder thresholds were examined.ResultsCronbach’s α was 0.93 for SGRQ total score and >0.75 for domain scores. In patients with stable disease based on change in forced vital capacity (FVC) ≤5% predicted or ‘no change’ on Patient’s Global Impression of Change, intraclass correlation coefficients for the SGRQ total score were 0.72 or 0.76, respectively. Moderate to strong correlations were observed between SGRQ total and domain scores and the Cough and Sputum Assessment Questionnaire cough domains (−0.34 to −0.65), University of California San Diego Shortness of Breath Questionnaire (0.56 to 0.83) and EuroQol 5-Dimensional Quality of Life Questionnaire Visual Analogue Scale (−0.41 to −0.55); correlations with FVC % predicted were weak (−0.24 to −0.30). Longitudinal correlations between changes in SGRQ total score and these patient-reported outcomes over 52 weeks were moderate. Changes in SGRQ total, impact and activity scores were sensitive to detecting improvement or deterioration in FVC >10% predicted at week 52. Collectively, distribution-based and anchor-based approaches suggested using a change of 4–5 points in SGRQ total score as a starting point for responder analyses.ConclusionsThe psychometric properties of the SGRQ support its use as a measure of health-related quality of life in patients with IPF.

scholarly journals Quality of Life Philosophy III. Towards a New Biology: Understanding the Biological Connection between Quality of Life, Disease, and Healing

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 1186-1198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soren Ventegodt ◽  
Niels Jørgen Andersen ◽  
Joav Merrick
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Molecular Level ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Biological Information ◽  
Living Matter ◽  
A Cell ◽  
New Biology ◽  
Life Philosophy ◽  
The Individual

This paper addresses (in a philosophical way) the complex and enigmatic interface between matter, life, and consciousness in modern medical science. The problem today in understanding living matter is not at the molecular level, but at the macro level where all molecular activities in the individual cell are coordinated, and especially at a higher level, where the activities of all the organism’s cells are coordinated. Although we understand very much of the body’s chemistry, we have only just started to get the gist of the tremendous organization of living matter. We are just beginning to acknowledge the enormous flow of information that is needed to make everything function in a healthy organism, including consciousness, where every cell does exactly what it has to do to make the organs function.A concept that seems to be able to bridge the scientifically very different domains of matter, life, and consciousness seems to be “biological information”. If a cell is seen as a liquid crystal in which the cell’s molecules constantly connect in firm mutual relationships only to dissolve again and become fluid and free, whenever the cell needs it, the backbone of the cell seems to be the information that organizes the cell. For example, in cell motion a cell is able to crawl with the help of a skeleton of fibers that can be created guided by biological information, whenever the cell needs the solidity provided by the fibers. The moment it has finished crawling or intends to crawl in another direction, these fibers will dissolve again. The fibers are made of millions of molecules that connect in an arranged pattern, and they dissolve when these molecules again let go of each other. How the cell precisely regulates such processes is today a complete mystery. How cells cocreate consciousness is also an enigma. All we can do is describe the cell and the organisms arising from its cells as filled with energy and information as well as an unbeatable ability to organize itself way down to the molecular level, where apparently the cell is in control of almost every single molecule.Our understanding today of how the information is stored and how it flows through living matter is still very limited. The source of the qualities (the qualia) characterizing the human being as a whole — like joy, love, motivation, consciousness, free will, wisdom, intuitive competence — is still practically unknown and scientifically unexplained, more than 50 years after science has turned itself towards these fundamental problems. We believe that we need a radically new biology and medicine to give the scientific explanations of the structure, dynamics, and quality of life, and of its consciousness.

scholarly journals Bioetyka między jakością i świętością życia

2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-188
Author(s):  
Wiesław Dyk
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Biological Aspect ◽  
Interdisciplinary Science ◽  
Natural Approach ◽  
Sanctity Of Life

The aim of the article above is an attempt of the natural approach of based categories of bioethics, namely quality of life, the value of human life, and the sanctity of life (the quality of life makes its sanctity). By thorough analysis, in the biological aspect of goodness and evil and by study the emerging of rational and free (human) Being in the evolutional perspective the effort of showing of uniqueness, specificity, and immunity of a human person is undertaken. The analysis tends toward creating a basis for bioethical valuation. Bioethics as interdisciplinary science has to be based on interdisciplinary anthropology taking into account the ontic-existential structure of human beings.

Alexithyme Patientenmerkmale und Lebensqualität – Eine Querschnittsstudie an 79 ambulanten Patienten mit Angststörungen

2013 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrin Leenen ◽  
Michael Rufer ◽  
Hanspeter Moergeli ◽  
Hans-Jörgen Grabe ◽  
Josef Jenewein ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
World Health ◽  
Life Questionnaire ◽  
World Health Organization Quality ◽  
Fand Sich ◽  
Quality Of Life Questionnaire ◽  
Organization Quality ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Tas 20

Aus Untersuchungen in der Normalbevölkerung ist bekannt, dass Menschen mit erhöhten Alexithymiewerten eine verminderte Lebensqualität (LQ) aufweisen. Für Patienten mit psychischen Störungen wurde dieser Zusammenhang jedoch kaum untersucht. Ziel dieser Studie war es, den möglichen Zusammenhang zwischen alexithymen Patientenmerkmalen und der LQ bei Patienten mit Angststörungen zu überprüfen. Bei 79 ambulanten Patienten mit Angststörungen wurden alexithyme Charakteristika mit der Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), die LQ mit der Kurzversion des World Health Organization Quality of Life Questionnaire 100 (WHOQOL-BREF) erfasst. Darüber hinaus fand eine Erhebung der psychischen Symptombelastung (SCL-90-R) und depressiven Symptomatik (MADRS) statt. Mittels hierarchischer Regressionsanalysen wurde der Zusammenhang zwischen der alexithymen Charakteristika und den unterschiedlichen LQ-Domänen berechnet. Die Patienten zeigten eine im Vergleich zur Normalbevölkerung deutlich verminderte LQ. Als Hauptergebnis fand sich, auch nach Kontrolle von Depression, Ängstlichkeit und Geschlecht, ein signifikanter Zusammenhang zwischen den beiden TAS-20 Subskalen Schwierigkeiten, Gefühle zu identifizieren und zu beschreiben und vor allem der psychischen LQ. Unsere Ergebnisse sprechen dafür, bei der Diagnostik und Therapieplanung von Patienten mit Angststörungen alexithyme Merkmale einzubeziehen. Im Falle von ausgeprägten alexithymen Merkmalen sollten psychotherapeutische Interventionen zur Verbesserung der Schwierigkeiten Gefühle wahrzunehmen und zu kommunizieren in Betracht gezogen werden.

Cathartic Effect of Suicide Attempts Not Limited to Depression

Crisis ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yves Sarfati ◽  
Blandine Bouchaud ◽  
Marie-Christine Hardy-Baylé
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Rating Scales ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
World Health ◽  
Life Questionnaire ◽  
Short Term

Summary: The cathartic effect of suicide is traditionally defined as the existence of a rapid, significant, and spontaneous decrease in the depressive symptoms of suicide attempters after the act. This study was designed to investigate short-term variations, following a suicide attempt by self-poisoning, of a number of other variables identified as suicidal risk factors: hopelessness, impulsivity, personality traits, and quality of life. Patients hospitalized less than 24 hours after a deliberate (moderate) overdose were presented with the Montgomery-Asberg Depression and Impulsivity Rating Scales, Hopelessness scale, MMPI and World Health Organization's Quality of Life questionnaire (abbreviated versions). They were also asked to complete the same scales and questionnaires 8 days after discharge. The study involved 39 patients, the average interval between initial and follow-up assessment being 13.5 days. All the scores improved significantly, with the exception of quality of life and three out of the eight personality traits. This finding emphasizes the fact that improvement is not limited to depressive symptoms and enables us to identify the relative importance of each studied variable as a risk factor for attempted suicide. The limitations of the study are discussed as well as in particular the nongeneralizability of the sample and setting.

Nursing Home Vision-Targeted Health-Related Quality of Life Questionnaire

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura E. Dreer ◽  
G. McGwin ◽  
K. Scilley ◽  
G. C. Meek ◽  
A. Dyer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Nursing Home ◽  
Life Questionnaire ◽  
Health Related Quality ◽  
Quality Of Life Questionnaire ◽  
Related Quality ◽  
Health Related

European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire-ELD14--Spanish Version

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Ignacio Arraras ◽  
Gemma Asin ◽  
José Juan Illarramendi ◽  
Ana Manterola ◽  
Esteban Salgado ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Spanish Version ◽  
Life Questionnaire ◽  
European Organization ◽  
Quality Of Life Questionnaire
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