Quality Of Life In Patients With Permanent Cardiac Pacemaker In The Slovak Republic

ABSTRACT Objective: to assess the health-related quality of life of patients with a permanent cardiac pacemaker. Method: descriptive, observational, cross-sectional study conducted in the arrhythmia outpatient unit of a university hospital located in the interior of São Paulo, Brazil. The consecutive and non-probabilistic sample was composed of both sexes, older than 29 years old, having a pacemaker for at least one month. Those lacking the cognitive condition to answer the questionnaires, as well as those with dyspnea, weakness, or fatigue at the time the instruments were applied, or with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator, were excluded. The generic instrument Medical Outcomes Study 36 - Item Short-Form Health Survey, composed of 36 questions distributed into eight domains along with the specific instrument Assessment of Quality of Life and Related Events, composed of 20 questions distributed into three domains, were used to assess health-related quality of life. Results: 88 patients participated; most were men, had a partner, and were aged 64.3 (±13) years old on average. The domains from the Medical Outcomes Study 36 that obtained the highest means, that is, were the best-rated, were Social Functioning (78.1; ±26.8) and Emotional Well-Being (68.2; ±23.9), while the lowest means were obtained by Physical Health (48.2; ±41.4) and Physical Functioning (58.5; ±27.9). In regard to the Assessment of Quality of Life and Related Events, the Arrhythmia domain had the highest mean and best quality of life (78.2; ±20.7), while the lowest mean was Dyspnea (71.1; ±26.8). Conclusion: the patients gave the highest health-related quality of life ratings in regard to mental domains and the lowest ratings for the physical domains.

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Quality of Life in Patients With Chronic Lumbosciatic Syndrome in the Slovak Republic

Value in Health ◽

10.1016/j.jval.2014.08.2650 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 17 (7) ◽

pp. A387 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

I. Matisakova ◽

E. Kamenska ◽

D. Mastiliakova ◽

V. Melus ◽

J. Bielik ◽

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Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Slovak Republic

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Study of green marketing principles and their implementation in the selected Slovak companies

Global Journal of Business Economics and Management Current Issues ◽

10.18844/gjbem.v6i2.1371 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 78-85

Author(s):

Anna Krizanova ◽

Lubica Gajanova ◽

Margareta Nadanyiova ◽

Katarina Kramarova

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Slovak Republic ◽

Environmental Management System ◽

Corporate Image ◽

Green Marketing ◽

Green Communication ◽

Green Business ◽

Business Entities ◽

Marketing Principles

The green marketing includes more than just a simple building of corporate image. It becomes a modern mean of the enforcement of actual environmental trends to a broad spectrum of business activities. The field of action of green marketing tools is relatively extensive, starting with the protection of environment, production and sale of products and services with ecological conditions and requirements, through the final consumption of environmentally friendly products, which affects the quality of life and health of the whole society. The paper in brief presents the results of the marketing survey that was focused on finding how chosen Slovak companies applied principles of green marketing and used green marketing tools within their business activities, if ever. Nowadays, concepts such as green marketing, green business and ecological product appear more frequently particularly with regard to communication of companies. For these reasons, the aim of the survey was to determine the extent to which the principles of green marketing are implemented in selected business entities in the Slovak Republic. Keywords: Green marketing, environmental management system, tools of green communication mix, advertising, public relation;

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