scholarly journals THE REGION OF GASTRONOMY PROGRAM - A FACTOR FOR EMPOWERING LOCAL COMMUNITIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 14(63) (2) ◽  
pp. 27-38
Author(s):  
Diana Foris ◽  
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Mirabela Ioana Lupu ◽  
Tiberiu Foris ◽  
Otilia Vanessa CORDERO-AHIMAN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
European Regions ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Aegean Region ◽  
Award Program ◽  
Raising Awareness

The purpose of the paper is to analyse the initiatives aimed at raising awareness of local communities on the importance of protecting and promoting distinct goods for sustainable food, culture, arts, and tourism, at EU level, to balance globalized food trends. The study carries out a comparative analysis at the level of three European Regions of Gastronomy: Coimbra Region, Sibiu Region and South Aegean Region. The key areas of the Region of Gastronomy Award program: raising citizen awareness about the food they eat, the value of local products and the need to innovate to protect local products. The benefits of such initiatives and their contribution to empowering local communities and to better quality of life were identified and highlighted.

Investigating Quality of Life from the Perspectives of Older Adults in Local Communities

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Kaitlin Snell ◽  
Alexis Fabricius ◽  
Karla Stroud ◽  
Kieran C. O’Doherty
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Local Communities

scholarly journals Quality-of-life evaluation in chronic wounds: comparative analysis of three disease-specific questionnaires

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 1299-1304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Augustin ◽  
Katrin Baade ◽  
Kristina Heyer ◽  
Patricia E Price ◽  
Katharina Herberger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Chronic Wounds ◽  
Life Evaluation ◽  
Disease Specific

scholarly journals Comparative Analysis of Knee Joint Fusion with Long Locking Nail and Ilizarov Apparatus in Patients with Deep Infection after Arthroplasty

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 109-118
Author(s):  
L. N. Solomin ◽  
E. A. Shchepkina ◽  
K. L. Korchagin ◽  
F. K. Sabirov
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Blood Loss ◽  
Knee Joint ◽  
Internal Fixation ◽  
Inpatient Treatment ◽  
Deep Infection ◽  
Knee Arthrodesis ◽  
Locking Nail

Relevance. Deep infection after knee arthroplasty requires radical surgical treatment of the infection site, removal of endoprosthesis components, and an antimicrobial spacer placement. If revision knee arthroplasty is impossible, the «gold standard» for this kind of patients is knee joint arthrodesis. The purpose of the study was the comparative analysis of knee joint fusion by external and internal fixation. Materials and Methods. The analysis of 60 cases of knee arthrodesis was carried out. The patients were divided into two groups with 30 patients in each. In the first group, knee arthrodesis was performed with long locking nail, in the second group — with external ring fixation. We compared the groups by intraoperative and drainage blood loss, the inpatient treatment duration, the terms of fusion and complications registered. The patients quality of life was evaluated using the SF-36 questionnaire before surgery, for the periods of 3, 6, and 12 months after the surgery. Results. The comparison of two methods of knee arthrodesis showed that blood loss in the internal fixation compared with external one, was 2.03 times more, the duration of inpatient treatment was 1.4 times less, and the total number of complications was 4.4 times less. However, the complications that affected the treatment outcome in long nail group were 1.5 times more. The differences in the average time of ankylosis formation were not statistically significant (p<0.05). The functional results of the treatment in 3 months after surgery in the group with internal fixation were much better. In 6 months after surgery the quality of life had no significant differences. In 12 months follow-up the indices in both groups were the same. Conclusion. The results of our study suggests us to think, knee joint arthrodesis by long fusion nail should be prefereble. If the nail insertion is technically impossible, and there is the high risk of deep infection recurrence, the external osteosynthesis should be used.

scholarly journals Study and methodology for research of the life quality in students

2019 ◽  
Vol 95 (9) ◽  
pp. 879-884
Author(s):  
Valery I. Popov ◽  
E. P. Melikhova
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Evaluation Approach ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Young Students

In this article there is reported a comparative analysis of methodological approaches to the assessment of the quality of life. There are present results of studies of quality of life of young students, performed with the use of compared methodological approaches (questionnaires) and allowing to construct the evaluation approach to the study of the quality of life in students.

Symptoms, Hope, Self-Management Behaviors, and Quality of Life Among Chinese Preoperative Patient With Symptomatic Valvular Heart Diseases

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 284-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongfeng Chen ◽  
Guifen Fu ◽  
Fang Liang ◽  
Jing Wei ◽  
Jing He ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Heart Diseases ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Valvular Heart Diseases ◽  
Loss Of Appetite ◽  
Management Behaviors

Introduction: More than 42 million people are estimated to suffer from valvular heart disease (VHD) worldwide with a prevalence of 5.3% to 7.7% in the Chinese adult population. The purpose of this study was to examine the associations between symptoms, hope, self-management behaviors, and quality of life (QOL) for preoperative patients with symptomatic VHD in a rural area of China. Method: This was a descriptive comparative study that took place in Nanning, China, between January 2015 and March 2016. The sample was 128 preoperative patients with symptomatic VHD. Data were collected using the Symptom Distress Questionnaire, Herth Hope Index, Self-Management Scale, and Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire. Results: Data from 122 patients were included in the final analysis. Mean scores of hope, self-management, and QOL were 36.71, 55.27, and 55.56. Worse total scores of symptom severity ( r = 0.57 to 0.69, p < .001) and self-management behaviors ( r = −0.22 to −0.25, p < .05) were associated with poorer QOL. Fatigue, loss of appetite, and self-management behaviors explained 49.90% variance of QOL ( p < .001). Discussion: Fatigue, loss of appetite, and self-management influenced QOL of patients with symptomatic VHD. Interventions aimed at strengthening self-management and relieving symptoms should be tailored for patients with symptomatic VHD base on their traditional animist belief and food culture in rural areas of China such as the Zhuang Autonomous Region.

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