Aim To assess the major causes of conflict and to identify choices of strategy in handling conflicts. Background Conflict is inherent to hospitals as in all complex organizations, and health personnel deal with internal ...

Background: The shift from asylum to community care for mental health patients has burdened the providers of primary health care and, more than all, families. As a result, numerous studies [Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr ...

Background: The concept of organizational culture is important in understanding the behaviour of individuals in organizations as they manage external demands and internal social changes. Cyprus healthcare system is ...

Background: Conflict among health-care personnel has been identified as an issue within health-care settings around the world. Aim: To investigate the existence and management of conflict among health-care personnel in ...

To ερωτηματολόγιο «Nurses Attitudes Towards Computerization» με το οποίο αποτυπώνονται οι απόψεις των νοσηλευτών γιa τη χρήοη της πληροφορικής στα νοσηλευτήρια, μεταφράστηκε στα ελληvικά.Σκοπός της παρούσας εργασίας είναι ...

BACKGROUND:Burnout in the healthcare workers is formally defined as a state of physical, emotional and mental exhaustion caused by long-term involvement in situations that are emotionally demanding. METHODS:Using a random ...

Background: Medical errors have been highlighted in recent years by different agencies, scientific bodies and research teams alike. We sought to explore the issue of medical errors in Cyprus using data from the Eurobarometer ...

Aims: This article describes a study examining predictors of burnout and engagement, including job demands, job resources and Type A behaviour, in a sample of Norwegian physiotherapists (N = 244). Methods: This study ...

Introduction: The Greek public is currently not represented at any level of the healthcare system’s organizational structure. This study aimed to investigate the opinions of Greek citizens as well as doctors regarding their ...

Background: Patient safety is considered an antecedent of quality of hospital care. The explicit need to focus on quality of care underpins the aim of the study to evaluate the safety culture and teamwork climate in the ...

Lately, clinical mistakes grew in numbers and this trend is evident in the findings of recently-released surveys. Furthermore, it is obvious that clinical errors, in addition to financial costs, affect negatively the ...

Objective: The objective of this study was to explore the epidemiological profile of the spinal cord injured population living on the Greek island Chios. Methods: We interviewed the regional spinal cord injured population. ...

Over the past few decades, drug and overall healthcare expenditure have risen rapidly in most countries. The present study investigates the attitudes and the factors which influence physician prescribing decisions and ...

Το ανθρώπινο δυναμικό στην Υγεία χαρακτηρίζεται από υψηλή εξειδίκευση και εκπαίδευση, γεγονός που βρίσκει ιδιαίτερη εφαρμογή στο νοσηλευτικό δυναμικό, το οποίο διακονεί μία επιστήμη εξαιρετικά δυναμική και πολύτιμη. Η ...

Εισαγωγή: Οι ποικίλες επιτευχθείσες καινοτομίες σε επιστημονικά, τεχνολογικά και κοινωνιολογικά περιβάλλοντα είχαν ως αποτέλεσμα τη συνεχή επέκταση των αρμοδιοτήτων διαφόρων επαγγελματιών σε νέα πεδία ...

Το σύνολο της επιστημονικής κοινότητας αναγνωρίζει σήμερα τον πρωτεύοντα ρόλο της υγιεινής διατροφής, αλλά κι ενός ισορροπημένου τρόπου ζωής, στην πρόληψη των καρδιαγγειακών συμβαμάτων. Στο πλαίσιο αυτό η Αμερικανική ...

BACKGROUND: Despite a plethora of information on the prevention of pressure sores, they remain a significant problem in both hospital and community settings. The need to reduce the incidence of pressure sores has been well ...

This study aims to investigate how young inmates integrate temporal and contextual elements of identity and what is the role of education in identity integration. Twenty-six young inmates were interviewed. Thematic analysis ...

In the current study we examined the psychometric properties of the Greek adaptation of the Social Phobic Inventory (SoPhI) (Moore & Gee, 2003). The questionnaire is a 21-item self-report measure that assesses social anxiety ...

Tests of aggression, prejudice and a measure of how much uniqueness or similarity we perceive in others were administered to participants the day before the terrorist attacks of 9/ 11, the day of the attacks, six and seven ...