Development of Quality of Life of Patients according to Moderate Postmodern Philosophy

Abstract

          This research aimed to study how patients’ quality of life could be enhanced based on the Moderate Postmodern Philosophy. It was a qualitative research in which data were collected from related documents from primary and secondary data sources. The data were then analyzed based on specific contents. The Concept of Four Powers and Three Forms of Braveness, ethical principles, and medical participation principle were studied and synthesized. 

          The research findings revealed that in order to enhance patients’ quality of life through the Moderate Postmodern Philosophy, four powers including creative power, adaptive power, collaborative power and requisite power should be promoted among the patients. Approaches that should be used to enhance these powers included encouraging the patients to confront with reality rather than perform self-consolation; they needed to be brave to face with whatever they fear and act in a creative way; encouraging the patients to change their health-related behaviors by enabling them to be confident in their own abilities; building a collaboration between the patients, the patients’ relatives, and medical personnel; arranging activities that could develop mental value by suing contemplation for the patients; promoting ethical principles among the patients’ relatives and medical personnel and encouraging them to use these principles in taking care of the patients; and supporting the use of medical participation principle in the health care system by encouraging all stakeholders to believe in fundamental knowledge of each party, believing that people had an ability to manage and take care of their own health as well as to learn, and trusting that communities could take part in taking care of health of the local people. In terms of the provision of health from the government, the government should provide benefits for people and should not take the provision of health as a business.