Quality of life of applicants for long-term study visa in the South Bohemia region

Bachelor thesis deals with "Quality of life of applicants for long-term study visa in the South Bohemia region". The main objective was to identify if the quality of foreign students studying in the Czech Republic changes during the long stay in the Czech Republic and if so, how this is expressed. The thesis is divided into two sections {--} theoretical and practical. The theoretical part consists of three chapters. The first chapter deals with quality of life in general, its history, definitions and possibilities of scoring the quality of life. The second section outlines chances of foreigners at the entry and stay in the Czech Republic. The third summarizes activities of foreigners in our country since the foundation of the Czech Republic until now, their numbers and education. At the beginning of the empirical section the goal is set is hypotheses are stated, followed by the research process description and the means used to confirm or refute hypotheses. The resulting values are clearly explained and presented in the form of graphs and tables. Data obtained from the research are being confronted in subsequent discussion. The goal of the thesis is to determine how the quality of life of foreign students differs from European standards, and whether it gets changed in the course of the long-term residence in the Czech Republic. To meet the goals of this thesis the method of standardized questionnaire SF-36 on health-related quality of life, which measures eight domains of health, was used. The outcomes of the research prove that quality of life of foreign students is different in comparison with the European standard Oxford. It was also shown that the quality of life during the long-term residence in the Czech Republic decreases in the domains of physical functioning, role limitations due to physical problems, role limitations due to emotional problems, social functioning and pain, while an increase occurs in the category of general mental health, vitality and general perception of health