George Kritsotakis

• RN, MA, PhD
• Professor (Associate) at Hellenic Mediterranean University

Aims: To estimate the sex-stratified prevalence and clustering of 14 behavioural and metabolic health risk factors in emerging adulthood. Background: The high prevalence and the clustering of risk factors multiply health consequences and increase the threat to the future health and quality of life of young adults. Design: Descriptive cross-sec...

Purpose: This study aims at identifying the sex-stratified associations of involvement in traditional bullying during middle and high school years and in cyberbullying during college years with multiple health risk behaviors in undergraduate students. Design: This cross-sectional analysis draws on the data of the second wave of the LATO study (L...

This cohort study aimed to estimate the effect of individual maternal social capital during pregnancy on birth outcomes in the context of the Mother-child cohort (Rhea study), in Crete-Greece. Women were recruited from four prenatal clinics in Heraklion-Crete for one year beginning in February 2007. 610 women completed the self-administered Social...

Background: Depression, and to a lesser extent postpartum depressive symptoms, have been associated with characteristics of the social environment and social capital. Up to the present, mostly cross-sectional studies have explored such an association without providing a clear temporal relationship between social capital and depression. Objectives...

The Evaluation of Adult Education Staff EDUEVAL Handbook vol. 3 The EduEval - Evaluation for the Professional development of adult Education Staff is a project (n. 538743-LLP-1-2013-IT-GRUNDTVIG GMP) supported by the LifeLong Learning Programme of the European Commission. EDUEVAL Handbook is the third of three volumes, based on the results of th...

Το βιβλίο αυτό είναι αφιερωμένο σε όλους τους σημερινούς και μελλοντικούς επαγγελματίες υγείας και ευελπιστούμε να τους βοηθήσει να αποκτήσουν τις βασικές δεξιότητες για διεπαγγελματική συνεργατική πρακτική. Για την παροχή ασφαλούς, υψηλής ποιότητας, προσβάσιμης, ασθενοκεντρικής και πληθυσμοκεντρικής φροντίδας, στο σημερινό σύνθετο κλίμα υγειονομικ...

Background: Adapting psychometrically tested tools, such as the ‘Work Extrinsic Intrinsic Motivation Scale’ (WEIMS), is a key element for the effective management of human resources in healthcare organizations and valid cross-cultural comparisons. This study aimed to assess the extrinsic and intrinsic work motivations in a sample of hospital nurses...

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic may have inhibited the development of critical thinking and emotional intelligence of nursing students due to the transition from traditional to online learning environments. Objective: The objective was to evaluate the development of critical thinking, emotional intelligence, and the perceived learning environment...

Background: Vaccination against seasonal influenza has proven effective in preventing nosocomial influenza outbreaks among hospital patients and healthcare workers (HCWs). This study aims to explore the intention, motivation, and empowerment toward vaccination and vaccination advocacy as contributing factors for seasonal influenza vaccination in H...

Purpose To examine the association of critical thinking (CT) and emotional intelligence (EI) versus CT and learning environment (LE) in order to investigate which has the greatest influence EI or LE. Materials and methods A cross-sectional study was conducted with 340 s-year healthcare university students in two nursing and one medical schools fro...

Background: Health sciences educators should increase the critical thinking of their students as this may improve the quality of care. However, this is rarely considered as a critical point in teaching, despite studies identifying factors such as the learning environment and emotional intelligence as increasing critical thinking at an undergraduat...

Critical thinking is an essential skill of health care professionals. Not sufficiently matured during undergraduate studies, critical thinking skills need continued development. One solution could be a practical guide of teaching methods for clinical educators and professional development specialists to use with new graduate nurses. This column des...

The paper presents and discusses data from a qualitative study carried out in April and May 2020 with families under lockdown in Italy (N = 319) and Greece (N = 297). The research examined how confinement and restrictions on movement had impacted families’ everyday geographies (with a particular focus on ‘liminal’ places located between homes and p...

Aims To examine the associations between nurse work environment with nurses’ silence about patient safety and the mediating effects of professional discrimination experienced by nurses. Design Multicentre cross-sectional study. Methods Between January and April 2019, 607 nurses and nursing assistants from seven hospitals in Greece assessed their...

For the full text you can visit the following site: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jonm.13405 Aim: To investigate the relationship between nurses' harmonious work passion and work-related internet information seeking. In doing so, we examine intrinsic motivation as an underlying mechanism of this relationship. Background: Nur...

For the full text you can visit the following site: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/KHDKKHTQ73ERFXTZYJYG?target=10.1111/inr.12650 Aim To report on ehealth literacy levels in nurses and to explore its associations with the nursing practice environment. Background Nurses increasingly use the Internet and associated technologies to seek...

Aim The aim of this paper is to compare the evolution of health risk behaviours between undergraduate nursing and social work students. Background Nursing includes the promotion of health and the shaping of healthy behaviours. An important determinant for providing lifestyle advice is the lifestyle of nurses themselves. Design Longitudinal compar...

Background Family caregivers of cancer patients report high burden leading to poor emotional and physical health. Knowledge of predisposing factors could contribute to its prevention or early detection. The aim of this study was to identify the factors related to caregiver burden among caregivers of cancer patients. Methods 90 cancer patients hosp...

Introduction: Self-reporting is a major and, in many cases, the only feasible method to use in cancer screening research. However, its validity has been questioned and numerous studies indicate that women over-report their participation in preventive Pap-test and mammography screenings. Aim: The objective of this study was to determine whether indi...

Background: Health needs assessment is crucial for the provision of individualized nursing care. However, many patients report a significant number of unmet needs. The aim of the present study was the assessment of self-reported unmet supportive care needs among haematological cancer survivors in Greece. Methods: 102 patients (mean age 66.2 yea...

Ερωτηματολόγιο αναδρομικής καταγραφής του σχολικού εκφοβισμού - ‘Retrospective Bullying Questionnaire’ (RBQ)

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...

Aims and objectives: To explore the gender-specific associations of smoking with Convivial, Negative Coping, and Intimate drinking contexts in young adults. Background: Alcohol and cigarettes co-use is common and to be more effective in prevention activities, we need to understand the drinking contexts that facilitate their co-occurrence. Desig...

Η προκαλούμενη από τη νόσο βλάβη φαίνεται να επηρεάζει την εκδήλωση συμπτωμάτων άγχους και κατάθλιψης μέσω της αίσθησης προσωπικού ελέγχου που αναπτύσσει ο ασθενής, επίδραση που διατηρείται στην πάροδο του χρόνου. Το εύρημα αυτό σε νεο διαγνωσμένους ασθενείς με ΣΕΛ μπορεί να αποτελέσει τη βάση για την σχεδίαση ειδικών ψυχολογικών παρεμβάσεων με στό...

Background: Smoking is among the health risk behaviors taken up by many adolescents with lifelong consequences and associations with multiple health risk behaviors. Smoking and smoking initiation in adolescence involves an interaction between micro-, meso-, and macro systems, including neighborhoods and the greater community. Objectives: To exam...

Editorial. Ελληνικό Περιοδικό της Νοσηλευτικής Επιστήμης 2015, 8(3): 3-5

Introduction: Low socio-economic status (SES) is associated with health risk behaviours contributing to the social inequalities in health. However, the associations of dietary habits with socio-economic status have not been investigated in emerging adulthood in detail yet. Aim: To investigate the associations of dietary habits with socio-economic s...

OBJECTIVE Data are limited regarding the frequency of use of primary health care (PHC) services in Greece and the reasons given for its use. The study aimed to investigate the most frequent reasons for seeking emergency help in PHC centers (PHCC) in rural areas of Greece and factors that may act as determinants of their use. METHOD A random sample...

Μια από τις σημαντικότερες μεταβάσεις κατά τη διάρκεια της ενηλικίωσης είναι η μετάβαση από το σχολείο στην εργασία. Ελάχιστοι ερευνητές έχουν ασχοληθεί με την επίδραση του κοινωνικού κεφαλαίου σε αυτή τη μορφή μετάβασης. Σκοπός της παρούσας μελέτης είναι η διερεύνηση της επίδρασης του κοινωνικού και του οικονομικού κεφαλαίου στους τύπους μετάβασης...

p class="IATED-Affiliation">This paper presents a reflection on the role of cooperative research in addressing the topic of evaluation within the field of adult education. To this end, the authors outline a specific cooperation initiative that involved academics and practitioners from the field of adult education in different European countries.The...

Background: There has been a significant increase in overweight and obesity worldwide reaching global epidemic, with dramatic increase also among women of reproductive age or entering pregnancy. Aims of the study were to estimate the prevalence of maternal pregestational overweight and obesity and their association with and contribution to maternal...

Caesarean deliveries are on the increase in Greece and around the world. The objective of the present study was to assess the frequency of planned and emergency caesarean deliveries and their socio-demographic predictors in women with singleton pregnancies followed-up from early pregnancy to delivery. The mother-child cohort in Crete examines a pop...

Objective: To estimate the associations of individual maternal social capital and social capital dimensions (Participation in the Community, Feelings of Safety, Value of Life and Social Agency, Tolerance of Diversity) with adherence to the Mediterranean diet during pregnancy. Design: This is a cross-sectional analysis of data from a prospective...

Aims: The purpose of this study is to examine the gender-specific associations of different dimensions of individual-level social capital with regular alcohol consumption and binge drinking in 16-17 years old adolescents in Crete, Greece. Methods: Of the 835 randomly selected students, 708 completed the Youth Social Capital Scale and the Health Beh...

This document provides the translation of the Social Capital Questionnaire in Greek. Πρόκειται για τη μετάφραση στα ελληνικά της 'Κλίμακας Ποσοτικής Εκτίμησης του Κοινωνικού Κεφαλαίου'

This document provides the greek translation of the 'Readiness for interprofessional learning questionnaire'. Πρόκειται για τη μετάφραση στα ελληνικά του 'Ερωτηματολογίου για την Ετοιμότητα Διεπαγγελματικής Εκπαίδευσης'

Introduction: Smoking and alcohol consumption are two of the leading risk factors of preventable morbidity and mortality with severe effects on the health of the populations. In Greece, smoking and alcohol consumption in adolescent and student populations are among the highest in Europe, even in those attending health sciences curricula. Aim: To es...

Breast and cervical cancers are among the leading causes of female mortality. The reasons that make women adhere, or not, to screening guidelines are not only related to individual and health characteristics but are also placed in a wider social and cultural context. Social capital might facilitate the dissemination of relevant knowledge of and the...

Objectives: This article describes the psychometric validation of the Youth Social Capital scale (YSCS) in 16- to 17-year-old students living in rural and urban areas in Crete, Greece. Methods: Sampling was performed among 27 secondary education units of Heraklion Prefecture. The self-reported questionnaire was answered by 692 participants (respons...

Social capital and patient satisfaction with cancer care A cross-sectional study in Greece OBJECTIVE Patient satisfaction has emerged as a powerful determinant and outcome of health care quality. Patient satisfaction is influenced by their socio-demographic characteristics and their social environment. The objective of this study was to examine the...

Objectives: This article describes the psychometric validation of the Youth Social Capital scale (YSCS) in 16- to 17-year-old students living in rural and urban areas in Crete, Greece. Methods: Sampling was performed among 27 secondary education units of Heraklion Prefecture. The self-reported questionnaire was answered by 692 participants (respons...

This is the translation in Greek of the Drinking Context Scale - 9. Πρόκειται για τη μετάφραση στα ελληνικά της ’Κλίμακας αξιολόγησης του πλαισίου κατανάλωσης αλκοόλ’. Διερευνά το που γίνεται η κατανάλωση αλκοόλ (π.χ. μεταξύ άλλων περιπτώσεων όταν το άτομο διασκεδάζει, όταν βρίσκεται με τον ερωτικό του σύντροφο, ή όταν είναι αγχωμένο και θυμωμένο)

Πρόκειται για την ελληνική μετάφραση της ’Κλίμακας Επικοινωνίας Γονέων – Εφήβων’ σε σχέση με θέματα σεξουαλικών πρακτικών, όπως για το πώς να χρησιμοποιείς το προφυλακτικό, για το πώς να προστατευθείς από Σεξουαλικώς Μεταδιδόμενα Νοσήματα, για το πώς να προστατευθείς από το AIDS, για το πώς να αποφύγεις μια ανεπιθύμητη εγκυμοσύνη.

Background: The metabolic syndrome (MS) consists of a constellation of disorders, recognized for their atherosclerotic action. The presence of MS increases the danger of cardiovascular diseases and is related to the development of coronary heart disease (CHD). Aim: The aim of this study was: (a) to record the appearance of the diagnostic criteria o...

Background: Social capital is a novel term which is important because it incorporates contextual perspectives in nursing. It is used to explore the way in which social context and social relations affect health and the everyday life of people. Despite differences in conceptualization, most authors agree that the term refers to civic participation,...

The aim of this study is to validate the 'Comprehensive Assessment of Satisfaction with Care' (CASC) in Greece. A total of 84 cancer inpatients met the inclusion criteria. Of them, 32 (38%) refused to participate, leading to a 62% response rate. For the translation of the scale, we followed the European Social Survey procedures encompassing four st...

Η έννοια του κοινωνικού κεφαλαίου συνίσταται στην ύπαρξη δικτύων στην κοινότητα, στη συμμετοχή των πολιτών στα κοινά, στην πρόσβαση σε άτυπα ή θεσμικά δίκτυα πληροφόρησης και ενημέρωσης, στην ανταποδοτικότητα και την εμπιστοσύνη μεταξύ των ατόμων. Τα τελευταία χρόνια έχει αρχίσει να παρουσιάζει αυξανόμενο ενδιαφέρον μεταξύ των ερευνητών στο χώρο τη...

The Greek version of the social capital questionnaire (SCQ-G) was evaluated in a sample of 521 adults drawn from three different urban areas in Greece. Exploratory factor analysis followed by multi-trait scaling yielded six factors: Participation in the Community, Feelings of Safety, Family/Friends Connections, Value of Life and Social Agency, Tole...

During the last 25 years, a new term has cropped up in social sciences, social capital. In the last 10 years, this term acquired a new dimension which relates it to health. Following an analysis of theoretical issues surrounding social capital and social support, recent research is used to illustrate how these are affecting health. It is argued tha...

Τα σύγχρονα προγράμματα αγωγής υγείας παραμελούν στην πλειοψηφία τους τις ψυχοκοινωνικές διαστάσεις του AIDS και των υπόλοιπων θεμάτων που πραγματεύονται. Στην παρούσα έρευνα διερευνώνται, με τη χρήση της φαινομενολογικής προσέγγισης, οι αντιλήψεις τελειόφοιτων (7ου-8ου εξαμήνου) σπουδαστών Νοσηλευτικής του Τ.Ε.Ι. Κρήτης για το περιεχόμενο της αγωγ...

During the last few years community participation has emerged as a crucial concept of health promotion and Primary Health Care. Its central idea is that ordinary people are capable of critical reflection and analysis and that their knowledge is relevant and necessary. As a result, participatory approaches have been incorporated into models of healt...