[Health of patients after bone marrow transplantation and coping with stress -- psychological and medical perspective]. / Zdrowie pacjentów leczonych metoda transplantacji szpiku kostnego a radzenie sobie ze stresem -- perspektywa psychologiczna i medyczna.

ABSTRACT

A study on the relationship between level of subjective and objective health by patients after bone marrow transplantation (BMT) and their coping with stress is presented. The theoretical basis of researches is Helena Wrona-Polanska's Functional Model of Health (2003), in which health is a function of creative coping with stress.141 patients after BMT -- 80 males and 61 females -- at the Hematology Clinic of University Hospital were studied clinically. Objective health was examined doctor on the scales. Examined methods were -- the questionnaires examining stress, coping strategies, and grading scales of health and anxiety. There is a clear difference between subjective and objective level of health. Subjective health depend on coping strategies with stress and objective health depend on patient's collaboration with terapeutic team. The basis of health promotion by persons after BMT is development effective strategies of coping with stress and increase patent's activity.