Hodnocení kvality života žen po menopauze

• Main Author: Moravcová, Markéta
• Other Authors: Mareš, Jiří
• Format: Doctoral Thesis
• Language: Czech
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-332550

Rating Health-Related Quality of Life after Menopause Introduction: Quality of life of individual and its evaluation is increasingly important in clinical practice. Specifically, women in the period associated with menopause often suffer from symptoms which do not directly threaten health, respectively life, but they can reduce the quality of life. With the general aging of our population is increasing the number of women in this period. The care these women must be comprehensive and focused on their subjective perception of women's lives. Clinical practice in the Czech Republic needs specific instrument to assess quality of life of menopausal women. Therefore, the authors created the Czech versions of specific instruments assessing the health related quality of life (HRQL) in postmenopausal women - Menopause Rating Scale (MRS) and Utian Quality of Life Scale (UQOL). Objectives: The theoretical aim of this work was to describe the period associated with menopause, characterize the quality of life and methods of its evaluation and also provide an overview of assessment tools for quality of life for women in the period associated with menopause. We mapped the situation in diagnosing and treating of estrogen deficiency symptoms in Czech clinical practice. The empiric aim of the work was to develop...