Purpose: To determine the level of knowledge regarding cervical carcinoma risk factors and to evaluate selected health behaviours presented by nurses in primary prevention of the reproductive organ malignancies.Materials and methods: The diagnostic survey with the use of self-constructed questionnaire was applied in the study. Data was collected among 184 nurses from two provinces in Poland.Results: According to the nurses, family history of cancer was the major risk factor in cervical carcinoma. The second most frequently enumerated risk factor, determining the incidence of cervical carcinoma, was oncogenic HPV types of infections. Nurses also mentioned frequent changes of sexual partners and early sexual initiation. More than 50% of respondents (54.3%) declared family history of various types of cancer including cervical carcinoma (3.8%). The majority of nurses were sexually active (82.6%) and had one partner (79.9%). Almost all nurses (93.5%) reported they had the cytological examination done regularly and 52.7% had it during last 12 months.Conclusions: The level of nurses’ knowledge regarding predisposing factors of cervical carcinoma development is good. Behaviours declared by the majority of them, belonged to the category of pro-health behaviours, which helps in the early detection and treatment of cancer.
The paper deals with one of the preventive concepts – resilience. The authors start with terminological assumptions, and then they characterize basic concept areas – risk factors (characterization of risk areas) and protective factors (the authors refer to the conditions enhancing human immunity). The article presents basic information about the resilience concept which is worth referring to while analyzing the causes and mechanisms of behaviour disorders or the symptoms of social maladjustment in children and adolescents.
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W artykule prezentuję jedną z koncepcji profilaktycznych – resilience. Wychodzę od założeń terminologicznych, charakteryzuję podstawowe obszary koncepcji – czynniki ryzyka (charakterystyka obszarów zagrożeń) oraz czynniki chroniące (odwołuję się do warunków zwiększających odporność człowieka). Artykuł przedstawia podstawowe informacje o koncepcji resilience, do której warto odnieść się analizując przyczyny i mechanizmy zaburzeń zachowania czy przejawy niedostosowania społecznego u dzieci i młodzieży
Introduction: Abdominal aortic aneurysm is a localized widening, located below the renal arteries. The exact etiology is not fully understood. Probably the main role in the formation of abdominal aortic aneurysm plays a correlation between genetic and environmental factors, especially smoking. The disease is primarily diagnosed in older men although in recent years there is an increased prevalence of the disease among women. Untreated abdominal aortic aneurysm increases in size until it ruptures, which often leads to the death of patient. The disease is generally asymptomatic and most of the aneurysms are detected accidentally, eg., during ultrasound examination of the abdominal cavity.Literature search: The PubMed database was searched in order to collect the literature needed to elaborate the aspects of abdominal aortic aneurysm epidemiology. The search was limited to the review of the original publication from the last 10 years.Conclusions: Analysis of the results indicates that the incidence of abdominal aortic aneurysm in Australia is higher than in America and Europe. The total incidence in Western countries is higher than in Asia. AAA incidence in men is higher than in women. Aneurysms having a diameter of 30 to 39 mm were diagnosed more often than aneurysms with a diameter of more than 40 mm.
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