The subjective perception of quality of life by chronically ill patients

This bachelor work focuses on the quality of life of chronically ill patients from the point of view of their subjectively perceived life satisfaction and meaningfulness of life. The theoretical part is devoted to mapping out the term quality of life. It investigates the development of the term, the differences in the outlook on the term by various science disciplines and fields, the difficulties of scientific definition of the term and the ways of evaluation and measuring. Individual chapters are devoted to the quality of life in the health care system, to the psychological outlook on the quality of life and to the problems of quality of life and meaning of life. The aim of the work was to establish the extent of satisfaction with life and some of its parts of chronically ill patients and to compare the results with a sample of healthy population. The parts of life in question were defined in advance and they were: mood, work, family relationships, free time, social life, relationship with a partner. The research was carried out using a quantitative method of an anonymous questionnaire. The sample consisted of 30 patients of the Cooperative Rehabilitation Ambulance of MUDr. Veselý in Třebíč. This sample was compared with a sample of 30 randomly selected representatives of healthy population. The research results show that the extent of life satisfaction of chronically ill patients is not significantly lower than that of healthy population. State of health is therefore not the most important factor determining the quality of life. Satisfaction with relationships in the family and with relationship with one{\crq}s partner, positive self-appraisal and feelings of meaningfulness of life play a much more important role at subjective evaluation of quality of life. It is important to take into account a whole set of indicators when measuring the quality of life. It is important to investigate especially subjective factors which indicate how people themselves evaluate their lives