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Selected Aspects of the Living Situation of Persons Suffering from Syphilis – Poznan Study
Teresa Rzepa
; Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Campus in Poznan
Ryszard Zaba
; Department of Dermatology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences
Olivia Jakubowicz
Beata Szramka-Pawlak
; Department of Dermatology Poznan University of Medical Sciences 49 Przybyszewski Street 60-355 Poznań Poland
Sažetak
In the last years, a considerable increase in syphilis incidence
was observed in Poland. This is a condition with serious health and psychosocial
consequences. The research demonstrates that one of the events
which significantly modify the course of human life is the somatic disease
experience; hence, it was decided to examine selected aspects of the living
situation of persons suffering from syphilis, which refer to the social
position held by these persons. Materials for the research were collected
based on the anonymous authors’ survey composed of 16 questions. The
research lasted for two years and covered a group of 42 syphilitic patients
(35 males and 7 females). The mean age of male patients was 35.7 and of
female patients 37.0 years. Among the participants, 8 persons had been
subjected to treatment for a few years, 11 for about a year, and 22 persons
had recently become ill. Patients assessed the attitude toward themselves
mostly as invariable, followed by unstable; 45.2% of subjects considered
their position in the family as average and 42.9% as high; 28.6% of patients
assessed their occupational position as average and the same number
admitted to be currently out of work. Most frequently, unemployed were
patients who had been affected by the disease for several years (62.5%),
whereas their social position was assessed either as high (47.6%) or average
(45.2%). Irrespective of the duration of the disease, patients (during
hospitalization) usually met a lot of people. It has been proven that most
of the syphilitic patients do not have negative attitude toward themselves
and do not assess their social position as inferior, regardless of the duration
of the disease. Such a picture of the living situation may be a manifestation
of the compensation for the negative mental state, activation of
other defense mechanisms or proper strategy of coping with the stressor.
The generally optimistic image of the studied group of syphilitic patients
may constitute a warning against an increased risk from the infected
persons.
Ključne riječi
syphilis; syphilis risk; living situation; social position
Hrčak ID:
89116
URI
Datum izdavanja:
14.10.2012.
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