The present research sought to understand patient experiences during Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) by using 24 HBOT patients (17 men, 7 women) to examine the relationship between individual variables and anxiety, and providing One Session Exposure Therapy (OSET; Öst, 1989) if necessary. Pre-HBOT participants completed the following measures: State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI; Spielberger, 1983), Claustrophobia Questionnaire (CLQ; Radomsky, Rachman, Thordarson, McIsaac, & Teachman, 2001), Anxiety Sensitivity Index (ASI; Reiss, Peterson, Gursky, & McNally, 1986), and Treatment Credibility/Expectancy Questionnaire (CEQ; Devilly & Borkovec, 2000). State Anxiety was assessed pre-HBOT and at the tenth and last sessions. Findings suggest Dispositional Anxiety (STAI-Trait + ASI), Expectancy of symptom improvement (CEQ), and gender were significantly predictive of State Anxiety before and during HBOT. Limitations and directions for future research are discussed.

The present research sought to understand patient experiences during Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) by using 24 HBOT patients (17 men, 7 women) to examine the relationship between individual variables and anxiety, and providing One Session Exposure Therapy (OSET; Öst, 1989) if necessary. Pre-HBOT participants completed the following measures: State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI; Spielberger, 1983), Claustrophobia Questionnaire (CLQ; Radomsky, Rachman, Thordarson, McIsaac, & Teachman, 2001), Anxiety Sensitivity Index (ASI; Reiss, Peterson, Gursky, & McNally, 1986), and Treatment Credibility/Expectancy Questionnaire (CEQ; Devilly & Borkovec, 2000). State Anxiety was assessed pre-HBOT and at the tenth and last sessions. Findings suggest Dispositional Anxiety (STAI-Trait + ASI), Expectancy of symptom improvement (CEQ), and gender were significantly predictive of State Anxiety before and during HBOT. Limitations and directions for future research are discussed.

The thesis is focused on the possibility of intoxication by selected chemicals at home or in public places. Especially the danger of carbon monoxide poisoning. We’re assessing the current state of the level of awareness and prevention in the Czech Republic. The thesis prepared an overview of the current state of intoxication busy the carbon monoxide in the Czech Republic and the level of medical procedures. There are evaluated measures, which are aimed to reduce the frequency of poisoning. The outcome of the thesis is to design a set of measures, which are designed to eliminate health risks to the population and raise public awareness. The thesis was carried out their own research facilities, household detectors, carbon monoxide at a pre-selected location.

A medical procedure is a threatening and stressful experience for many children. The consequent increased feelings of anxiety in hospitalized children can negatively affect their healing process, their psychological health, and their behavioural, cognitive, emotional and academic development. To limit these negative results, knowledge about interventions that could contribute to a decrease in anxiety in hospitalized children is needed. The aim of this review was to examine interventions aiming at reducing anxiety in hospitalized children that undergo a medical procedure. A systematic literature was conducted in three databases that has resulted in 10 articles that met the inclusion criteria. The 10 selected articles included a total of 11 interventions for this review. The results showed that the intervention technique Distraction was effective in reducing anxiety for most hospitalized children. The intervention technique Information provision showed both significance and non-significance and the intervention techniques Medication and Modelling showed a non-significant change in anxiety. Besides, an active distraction form and a longer duration of the intervention might contribute to the effectiveness in reducing the hospitalized child’s anxiety level. Future research needs to focus on the anxiety level of both children and their parents, in addition to the upcoming intervention use of multimedia applications. Furthermore, the characteristics of the hospitalized child and the collaboration with the child and parents should be taken into account before applying interventions aiming at reducing anxiety in hospitalized children.

Mineur, majeur sous sauvegarde de justice, sous curatelle ou encore sous tutelle, malade mental admis en soins psychiatriques libres ou sous contrainte, le patient doit pouvoir, dans un contexte de démocratie sanitaire, aspirer à un irréductible respect de son autonomie. Situées aux confins de la médecine, de l’éthique et du droit, l’opportunité et la part d’autonomie à concéder à ces personnes au discernement diminué procèdent néanmoins d’une décision médicale devant tantôt privilégier la volonté du patient vulnérable, tantôt préserver ses intérêts. Parce que le rejet de la légendaire figure juridique du contrat médical est, à n’en pas douter, définitivement acquis, le colloque singulier appelle, en ces temps modernes, l’édification d’un nouveau modèle, celui de la décision médicale. Pour l’heure, la situation d’incapacité de ces patients fait, dans une large mesure, l’objet d’une approche cloisonnée entre d’un côté les prescriptions du Code civil et de l’autre, celles du Code de la santé publique. Il s’agit donc, à travers la présente analyse, de relever et de mettre en exergue les faiblesses du système juridique actuel. Les causes de dysfonctionnements qui se trouvent à l’origine d’une instrumentalisation de l’autonomie de ces patients mentalement affaiblis ou encore qui se dressent comme des obstacles structurels à leur autonomie invitent à proposer des pistes de réflexion en faveur de l’élaboration d’une théorie de la décision médicale / Minor, major under protection of law, under guardianship or trusteeship, mentally ill person admitted to psychiatric care free or constrained, the patient must be able, in a context of health democracy, aspire to an irreducible respect for her autonomy. Located on the borders of medicine, ethics and law, timeliness and the degree of autonomy to be granted to such persons shall nevertheless declined to discernment of medical decision making in favor sometimes the will of the patient vulnerable, sometimes preserve its interests. Because the rejection of the legendary figure of the medical contract is legal, to no doubt, definitely acquired, the conference called singular, in these modern times, building a new model, that of the medical decision. For now, the situation of disability of these patients is, in large measure, the subject of a compartmentalized approach from one side to the rules of the Civil Code and the other, those of the Health Code public. It is therefore, through this analysis, to identify and highlight the weaknesses of the current legal system. The causes of failures that are the source of an instrumentalisation of autonomy of mentally impaired patients or that stand as obstacles to their structural autonomy invited to offer food for thought for the development of a theory of medical decision making