Role of wellness in the life persons with disability - a comparison study in the czech republic

Abstract

Education to wellness stresses the positive orientation in the individual life, development in beliefs about the sense of human life. According the wellness definition declared by WHO in 2000 we come to result, that phenomenon wellness presents a full integration of states of physical, mental, social, spiritual and economic well-being. Human responsibility for the state of wellness is in relation of individual knowledge and skills leading to the reduction or elimination of excessive mental and physical stress in daily life and to development of individual potentials. The main objective of the study is to analyse public awareness about wellness in persons with disability comparing persons of intact population, differences between males and females, differences according the age. In the research study participated in sum of 869 persons (422 males, 447 females). The Questionnaire "Well_Awar_In" (Krejčí 2013; Vackova, Michailidou, Neuwirth, 2016) was used to monitor a state of public awareness on the impact of wellness for personal life. Statistical analysis is divided into the five areas: Association of Wellness with Health optimizing; Wellness in workplace; Implementation of wellness activities in daily life; Preferences of wellness procedures; Obstructions to implement wellness into daily life. Results analyses show that the most associated phenomena with wellness are phenomena “Relaxation” and “SPA”, that it is high necessary to promote wellness in workplace in Czech Republic. Presented results bring new view on the problem, which is solved and published first time in Czech Republic.