ACTA FAC MED NAISS 2007; 24 (4): 213-218

Professional article

RESEARCH ON QUALITY OF LIFE CONCEPT CONDUCTED AT THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE IN NIS

Ljiljana Trajanović
Olivera Skakić
Gordana Nikolić

Clinic for Mental Health Protection and Neuropsychiatry for Developmental Age Clinical Center in Nis
 

    SUMMARY

    By focusing on the subjective experience and personal perception of an individual, the quality of life concept in medicine has enabled an essentially new approach to issues regarding health and illness, thus drawing attention of researchers from all over the world. The aim of this paper was to show the research on quality of life, conducted at the Faculty of Medicine in Nis. The data was collected by searching the articles published in journals quoted in Medline database, as well as by examining lists of PhD thesis and MSc thesis, defended at the Faculty of Medicine in Nis, which in their title had a term “quality of life”. Until the end of March 2007, over 19 500 studies were published in the world, in various medical fields, whose primary aim was to determine the quality of life. Out of this number, 22 are the work results of national authors, two of which are from Nis. At the Faculty of Medicine in Nis, 3 PhD theses, as well as 7 MSc theses have been defended on the quality of life. At the beginning of 2004, the monograph “Quality of life in mental disorders” was published. To date, relatively rare researches on quality of life, conducted in a small number of medical fields, have been carried out at the Faculty of Medicine in Nis. They represent a call for more active and diversified involvement of the category of personal experience of people suffering from illness in planning future scientific projects and studies. 
  

    Key words: quality of life, research, Faculty of Medicine