Athena Kalokairinou

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens | uoa · Faculty of Nursing

OBJECTIVE Τo investigate the relationship between sleep quality and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among community-based Greek patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). METHOD A cross-sectional study was conducted with 97 patients with MS, between March and June, 2019. The patients completed a questionnaire covering their demographic and clini...

Objective: The investigation of intentional behavior of hospital staff to care for COVID-19 patients and the study of the factors that influences it. Method: This is a cross-sectional study, of 261 physicians and nurses working in a COVID-19 reference hospital. Data were collected by an anonymous questionnaire including demographic and professiona...

As the proportion of older people in Greece grows and the need for promoting healthy aging is apparent, it becomes increasingly important to investigate the relationship between social support and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of older people in the community. A cross-sectional study was conducted in 451 older people living in the communit...

Purpose In view of the absence of police stress research in Greece, the purpose of this paper is to measure occupational stress among police officers and to investigate occupational stress risk factors. Design/methodology/approach A cross-sectional study with a convenience sample was conducted among 336 police officers in Athens, Greece. Data coll...

This book tries to give an approach of the implications of crisis, especially in health and social systems. The economic crisis, as a global phenomenon of the first decade of the twentieth century, has had a negative impact on all health and social indicators. Therefore, severe austerity measures and inadequacy of resources can lead to worse health...

ABSTRACT Introduction: The poor understanding of dementia leads to mistaken beliefs which create the stigma that surrounds the disease. The definition of stigma and the role it plays in defining the experience of the people with dementia is well documented in the literature. Methods: For the scope of this review there has been a search of research...

Aims and objectives: To examine and compare undergraduate healthcare students' attitudes toward people with physical or intellectual disabilities in Greece. Background: The experience that people with disabilities have with health care is a complex interaction between their medical condition and the social and physical environment. Attitudes of...

OBJECTIVE Assessment of the health related quality of life (HRQoL) of the unemployed population in Greece during the current period of economic crisis. METHOD A cross-sectional study was conducted on a population sample of 396 unemployed persons (convenience sample) using the Short Form-36v2 (SF-36v2) questionnaire to estimate the HRQoL. Statistica...

OBJECTIVE To confirm the validity and reliability of the Participation Reasons Scale (PRS), which explores reasons for participating in continuing professional education (CPE), with a sample of Greek doctors and nurses. MATERIAL With the permission of the authors, translation into Greek of the PRS, back translation, validation by a panel of expert...

Aim: The purpose of this review was to describe public home healthcare nursing services in Greece. Background: The effectiveness and the efficiency of home healthcare nursing are well documented in the international literature. In Greece, during the current financial crisis, the development of home healthcare nursing services is the focus and in...

INTRODUCTION: Social networks usually affect the health status and self-esteem of groups and individuals positively. The higher the degree of social networking, the higher the influence. The impact on older people is of particular interest. AIM: This systematic review examines whether perceived social support by older people receive from various gr...

Mentally ill people are among the most stigmatized, discriminated against and marginalized society members. The aims of this study were to explore adolescents’ opinions about mental illness and determine whether these change after a mental health educational intervention. Two randomly selected schools took part in this study: one serving as interve...

Purpose of study was to investigate the self-care deficit of cancer patients receiving outpatient health care in Greece based on Orem's Self-Care deficit Nursing Theory. Material and Methods: The sample consisted of 113 patients from home care unit and outpatient unit from 2 public oncology hospitals in Athens. The questionnaire developed by resear...

The aim of the study was a cost and clinical effectiveness analysis between moist wound healing dressings and gauze in a homecare set up for the treatment of stage III and IV pressure ulcers up to complete healing. In addition we assessed the overall economic burden on the Healthcare System. Treatment method for each patient was chosen randomly by...

In this study we try to investigate the Health Professionals' (HPs) training needs in a sector of Primary Health Care which is the Long-term care services for oncology patients in Greece, in order to improve the care services provided as well as the cooperation with the carers and families. This qualitative study used semi-structured interviews and...

INTRODUCTION: Smoking rates amongst people with a mental health disorder are significantly higher than in the general population and there is growing evidence to show a strong association between smoking and mental health disorders. The aim of the present study was to investigate views and attitudes of mental patients regarding smoking.MATERIAL & M...

Breast milk benefits are many and not only for the neonatal and infancy but cover the protection of maternal health and family welfare. Breast milk is a unique treasure of life, health and wellbeing of the child, mother, family and society in general. The purpose of this study was to investigate working mother’s return to work influence on duration...

Background: The majority of today’s nursing students in Higher Education undoubtedly belong to the “Net Generation” or the so – called “Millennials”. Born from 1982–2001, millennials have been described as technologically literate. Because of this digital literacy, many scientists claim that millennials have different preferences and style of learn...

Numerous surveys have confirmed that emerging technologies and Web 2.0 tools have been a defining feature in the lives of current students, estimating that there is a fundamental shift in the way young people communicate, socialize and learn. Nursing students in higher education are characterized as digital literate with distinct traits which influ...

The last six years the global community is facing an economic crisis that first appeared in USA. This crisis has a lot of impacts especially in health sector. Unemployment, job insecurity and the loss of disposable income have a significant impact in health too. The main objective of this research was to investigate the quality of life of the gener...

In recent years the various social, financial and demographic challenges of health systems worldwide have forced the reorientation of social and national organizations towards new forms of community health care. “Hospital at home” is one of the new models that has been developed very well and has gained significant scientific interest in some count...

Introduction: Television is, nowadays, one of the major means of information, education and entertainment, not only for adults but for children as well. It has been found that the impact, positive or negative, of television on children is important and depends on the time and the kind of programmes they watch. Aim: To record the television viewing...

The consequences of demographic ageing, demographic and social-economic changes, changes in the structure of family, in the shrinkage of Welfare state, influenced the lifestyle of the older people and their social relations. The institution of Open Care Centers for the Elderly (KAPI) was created in the context of these conditions. This cross-sectio...

The education in First Aid through health education programs can help in promoting the health of the population. Meanwhile, the development of alternative forms of education with emphasis on distance learning implemented with e-learning creates an innovative system of knowledge and skills in different population groups. The main purpose of this res...

Background Childhood exposure to ultraviolet light increases the skin of skin cancer including melanoma. Aim The aim of this study was to describe the sun-related knowledge and attitudes of primary schoolchildren in an urban area of Greece. Methods A randomly selected sample of 2163 students (8–12 years old) from primary schools in an urban area of...

Background Training efforts in disaster education need to provide updated knowledge, skills and expertise to nurses through evidence-based interventions. Aim The purpose of the study was the development, implementation and evaluation of an educational programme for nurses regarding the provision of health care during disasters. Methods A randomiz...

People with mental illness are among the most stigmatized and discriminated against as a result of lack of knowledge among the public. Our study explored adolescents' perceptions of people with mental illness through drawings, described these perceptions, and tested the possible changes in perceptions after an educational mental health intervention...

The study’s aim was to evaluate the agreement between patients’ and nurses’ ratings of patients’ health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and to identify factors that affect their level of agreement. A total of 150 home health care cancer patients from Greece and all nurses (N = 5) who worked in the home health care units completed the European Organ...

Results: Teachers were found to have moderate knowledge about school safety. Significantly higher knowledge had men (p-val-ue=0,055), those who had children (p-val-ue=0,060), those with a specialty (p-val-ue=0,011) and relevant continuous education (p-value=0,016). The mean total attitude score was 80.61; this means that teachers had a positive att...

Introduction: According to the Japan Society of Disaster Nursing “Disaster nursing is the systematic and fexible utilization of knowledge and skills specifc to disaster related nursing, and the promotion of a wide range of activities to minimize the health hazards and life threatening damage caused by disasters in collaboration with other specializ...

Home care is implemented internationally on a large scale. However, in Greece, home care services are underdeveloped, especially in public sector. The economic evaluation of home care for patients with terminal-stage malignant neoplasms and the comparison with the cost of hospital care. A socioeconomic evaluation was conducted comparing the cost of...

Introduction: Health is a public good and in the free market is not distributed equally in the society due to the inefficient allocation of resources. According to the economic approach of health, illness prevents the infected individual to participate in processes (work), instead causes costs to the society as a whole. The purpose of this study i...

Purpose of this study is to explore those factors which affect the health of students in postadolescent age, focusing on smoking and alcohol use, especially in regard to ways of predicting adoption of this behavior and its frequency to detect future users of tobacco and alcohol use but also high-risk groups, i.e. those people who are led to abuses....

School nurses have the ability to enhance the knowledge and tolerance of an entire community and to form more positive and sensitized attitudes to future adults. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the knowledge and attitudes of nurses and the frequency of accidents caused by epilepsy in Greek schools. Our sample consi...

Accidents in children with epilepsy are an actual concern of teachers and parents in Greece and internationally. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the knowledge and attitudes of teachers and the frequency of accidents caused by epilepsy in Greece. The study surveyed 1404 public elementary school teachers from all pre...

To assess the level of risk as perceived by hospital workers and experts in Health and Safety (H&S) referring to occupational hazards, as a contribution to the improvement of the work conditions. A cross sectional study using triangulation in one general hospital and an oncology one, in two capital Greek cities. 447 hospital professionals randomly...

In this chapter, we address the relationship between loss and grief that renal nurses experience and stress management. Renal nurses provide care across the life span and health continuum, including acute and chronic care to patients with kidney disease. They are involved in health promotion, illness prevention, the management of acute, chronic and...

Introduction: Palliative care is considered to be the active integrated (complete) care for people to address problems associated with life-threatening illness. Of particular importance are the control of pain, of other symptoms and of psychological, social and spiritual problems, with a focus on achieving the best possible quality of life for pati...

Objective: Modern societies are multicultural and are composed of populations that differ not only in language, religion, values , family relations, but also in their views on the health, care, treatment. When there is culture itself, problems arise in communication are obvious and may lead to inadequate nursing care. Purpose: This study involves a...

Introduction: The school apart from its role to transmit knowledge and cultural values, also has responsibility to provide a safe environment, in which the promotion of mental and physical health, the elimination of risk factors and prevention of accidents will be undeniable priorities. Aim: The purpose of this study was to investigate primary scho...

The aim of this study was the investigation of the dietary habits of Albanian immigrants living in Greece for at least 3 years in comparison to those living in Albania permanently. The study was designed as a comparative cross-sectional one. The sample consisted of 638 persons, of whom 299 were living in Greece and 339 were permanently living in Al...

Aim. The aim of the present study was to record habits and attitudes of primary school students in Greece regarding sun-protection measures. Materials and Methods. 2,163 students with an average age of 9.9 (±1.1) years, studying in 14 schools of a Greek region, constituted our sample. The SPSS 17.0 software was used for the statistical analysis and...

Home care is the total of services of healthcare that a patient can receive in his house. Home care is a rapidly developing sector of sanitary care. Its growth is mainly due to the continuous increase of the percentage of old individuals in almost all countries of the world and at the same time is due to the need for reduction of the cost of acute...

Introduction: Cancer patients face a wide breadth of physical and psychosocial tension which affects their quality of life (QoL). Using the proxies as an alternative source of information, when self-evaluation is not obtainable, can offer valuable information about the patients' condition and the decision-making concerning their care. The present r...

The aim of this study was the investigation of the dietary habits of Albanian immigrants living in Greece for at least 3 years in comparison to those living in Albania permanently. The study was designed as a comparative cross-sectional one. The sample consisted of 638 persons, of whom 299 were living in Greece and 339 were permanently living in Al...

Introduction. In clinical practice the assessment of cancer patients' QoL is used frequently. It guides the individualized treatment and provides feedback on care, aiming at the best outcome of the treatment and the patients' autonomous well-informed consent. The present review is the second part of the feature about cancer patients' QoL. The aim o...

Introduction: Renal nurses should have counselling and communication skills with patients, to deal with stressful situations at work. A prerequisite for the acquisition of these skills is renal nurses' self-knowledge. This study aims to present the effectiveness of an ongoing training program to renal nurses related to self-esteem. Methodology: A q...

Introduction: Job selection is one of the most important decisions in peoples’ lives. According to recent studies there is not much interest in pursuing the nursing profession, despite the fact that there is a shortage of nurses not only in Greece, but also in other countries worldwide. Objective: Aim of this study is to investigate the motives of...

Objective: Modern societies are multicultural and are composed of populations that differ not only in language, religion, values , family relations, but also in their views on the health, care, treatment. When there is culture itself, problems arise in communication are obvious and may lead to inadequate nursing care. Purpose: This study involves a...

Background: Internationally, breast cancer comprises 29% of all cancer incidences. In Greece, 1,500-1,800women die annually from breast cancer out of the 4,000 who are affected. Only 5% are detected at an early diseasestage through mammography screening.Aim: This paper presents findings from a study exploring the factors that influence Greek women’...

The promotion of health and safety (H&S) awareness among hospital staff can be applied through various methods. The aim of this study was to assess the risk level of physical hazards in the hospital sector by combining workers' perception, experts' evaluation and objective measurements. A cross-sectional study was designed using multiple triangulat...

Accessible summary• Promoting mental health and fostering understanding within the community about mental illness are essential.• This systematic review is concerned with intervention studies which aim to affect secondary school pupils' attitudes towards mental illness through education.• While the results indicate a positive impact, research on th...

Στο παρόν άρθρο παρουσιάζονται βιβλιογραφικά δεδομένα. Γίνεται λόγος για το ότι η σχολική επιθετικότητα είναι ένα σύνθετο και δύσκολο κοινωνικό πρόβλημα. Η δυσκολία έγκειται στα εσωτερικά χαρακτηριστικά της φύσης της. Χαρακτηριστικά τα οποία συνθέτουν την αντιφατική φύση της σχολικής επιθετικότητας μάς οδηγούν στο να πούμε ότι η σχολική επιθετικότη...

Introduction. Quality of life is a multidimensional concept reflecting an individual’s overall sense of wellbeing and life satisfaction. The present review is the first part of a series of articles aiming to make the reader reflect and provide them with a direction through the concept of quality of life, the problems which emerge and its assessment...

Aim: The ageing of the population and the increase of chronic diseases’ incidence, combined with limited resources for health care, led researchers and policy makers to search for health promotion alternatives. The “Health Pro Elderly” project aims to identify criteria that make health promotion programs successful and provide evidence for sustaina...

For centuries psychiatric services were provided by mental health hospitals, which were operating upon bureaucratic principles: strict hierarchies, slow processes and segmentation of duties. Research has shown that psychiatric nursing, as exercised in these traditional settings, has dealt with several problems in relation to: the amount and quality...

Aim: To increase understanding on health promotion concept and to identify its implications for research and practice. Background: Although health promotion is a core concept in school nursing there is no study referring to its content from the school nurses' point of view.Method: A cross sectional questionnaire survey was used to collect data thro...

Published research concerning health promotion in Greek schools is limited. The aim of the study was to evaluate special education school nurses' involvement in health promotion activities, examine their attitudes toward it, and to explore the factors influencing their practices. A cross-sectional survey was carried out in 2005 by mailed questionna...

Acting emotionally has been the explicit target for many service professions. However, in the case of nursing, the concept of emotional labour remains implicit and elaborated only when the adverse effects of emotional labour have already occurred. Since nursing work involves the effective management of emotions, it is an imperative to openly incorp...

Introduction. Modern views about health and its medical, sanitary and financial components impose the reorganization of the health care system and its direction towards regional decentralization and primary health care. Political strategies in Greece have been turned towards this direction years ago. Aim. Present review aimed at presenting the impo...

The family is the basic unit of society and exists in different social, cultural, legal and political systems. The Family Nursing is a branch of science of nursing with a strong theoretical foundation, based on nursing theories and on theories that have been formulated for the "Family" part applied to practical "tools" developed by family caregiver...

Background: The numbers of children with learning disabilities are increasing. Recently efforts have been made to identify the biological, hereditary and social factors that may trigger and aggravate the phenomenon. Aim: To investigate the correlation of social and demographic factors with the appearance of dyslexia in children of school age. Metho...

Background: In modern society there appears to be a common understanding that incidents of violence and aggression are usual. Such behaviour is commonplace, also, in the nursing working environment. Over recent years incidents of workplace violence, aggression and harassment have been increasingly observed in the health care sector. Aim: The purpos...

Το παρόν άρθρο παραθέτει ορισμένους προβληματισμούς σχετικά με την αγωγή υγείας ως σχολικής δράσης, εξετάζει το ρόλο και τα χαρακτηριστικά του εκπαιδευτικού στις δράσεις της αγωγής υγείας Ακόμη, εξετάζονται οι προοπτικές της εκπαίδευσης για την υγεία στο ελληνικό σχολείο μέσα από τη θεσμική συνεργασία φορέων για τη διαμόρφωση νομικού πλαισίου και τ...