Paweł Antoni Rasmus- PhD
- Professor (Full) at Medical University of Lodz
Paweł Antoni Rasmus
- PhD
- Professor (Full) at Medical University of Lodz
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Background: Being an unexpected, undesired and life-threatening situation, preterm birth (PTB) is a stress-, anxiety- and depression-generating factor for women delivering prematurely. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between self-efficacy, coping strategies and perceived stress in mothers who experienced preterm birth and full-...
Introduction
COVID-19 is connected with varying degrees of emotional stress. Patients (pts) who are hospitalized with severe COVID-19 (C19) are located in single rooms without a permanent attendant to prevent contamination. All personnel serving these pts come into contact with patients with personal full-body protective garment. Ambulatory C19 pts...
The coronavirus pandemic and related government restrictions have a significant impact on peoples’ everyday functioning and working, which influences their physical and mental health. The aim of the study was to examine the associations between stress and sleep quality of people of different working modes: working in the workplace (WP), working rem...
The article focuses on a less-discussed issue of social marginalization of people leaving penitentiaries, which is the prevalence of multifaceted health problems experienced by people in this category. It includes poor health status, resulting from, among others, poor housing conditions, harmful or risky lifestyle, and lack of access to medical ser...
(1) Background: Regular participation in physical activity (PA) prevents many medical complications and improves the physical fitness of people with spinal cord injury, and in turn improves the functional independence, psychosocial status and quality of life. The goal of Active Rehabilitation Camps (ARCs) is to use various forms of PA in order for...
Background:
Maintaining physical performance during Ramadan Diurnal Fasting (RDF) is a challenge for professional athletes. The literature shows that sleep disturbances experienced by athletes during RDF are associated with reduced physical performance. The effect of sleep quality on physical performance, and the effect of work status on physical...
Life course theory (LCT) diagnoses childhood and adolescent factors that determine an individual’s involvement in crime in the future. Farrington lists eight key correlates identified by empirical analyses of criminal careers. In this paper, we seek to discuss the inconsistencies with LCT that we observed in our three empirical studies of the crimi...
Background:
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of admissions to the emergency department (ED) due to a primary diagnosis of atrial fibrillation (AF) has decreased when compared to pre-pandemic times. The principal aim of the study was to assess the frequency of SARS-CoV-2 infections and sinus rhythm restoration among patients who arrived at...
Both juvenile and adult criminal careers show regularities in the origins of delinquency, the dynamics of the criminal pathway, and the turning points that lead to desistance/persistence in crime. Research shows that family, education, and friendship environments contribute significantly to the individual choices that create criminal biographies. O...
Background:
The coronavirus pandemic and the government restrictions significantly disturbed the daily functioning of people, thereby influencing healthy behaviors, such as physical activity-the core indicator of well-being. This study evaluates the associations between physical activity (PA), the level of stress and quality of sleep during the CO...
Purpose: To examine (a) the amount of health-related behavior, (b) the level of generalized optimism, (c) the belief about patients’ abilities to cope with difficult situations and obstacles and (d) the subjective sense of social exclusion at baseline and at follow-up among patients with chronic mental health issues participating in a psychosocial...
Objectives: Rugby is sport with a high risk of injury. Repeated changes in exercise intensity and the high training intensity may cause to overuse injuries and long-term disability. The aim of the study was to analyze the prevalence of injuries during trainings and forms of rehabilitation procedures performed after their occurrence among elite and...
Niniejsze opracowanie jest kolejnym z cyklu i powstało w nawiązaniu do artykułu opublikowanego w „Psychiatrii i Psychologii Klinicznej” w grudniu ubiegłego roku, prezentującego przykład studium przypadku z psychologii klinicznej zaburzeń psychicznych człowieka dorosłego (Rasmus et al., 2019). Opiera się na studium przypadku, które zostało przygotow...
Background:
Emergency medical staff (EMS) are a professional group at a high risk of burnout and an imbalance between work and private life, the so-called work-life balance (WLB). This affects their mental state and physical health. The aim of the study was to assess the relationship between the number of hours of work and the state of health as w...
There is evidence that major components of the fungi cell wall not only define fungal properties and survival but also are responsible for their biological activities. Some data indicate that structural components of the fungal cell wall exert stimulatory/modulatory effects on immunocompetent cells acting as pathogen-associated molecular patterns (...
Objective
The aim of the study was to investigate knowledge of breaking bad news (BBN) among medical personnel in the emergency medical services (EMS).
Methods
A cross-sectional survey was conducted of 148 individuals employed in EMS. An interview was conducted using a structured questionnaire.
Results
Of study participants, 89.2% were not aware...
Background
The study aims to gain insight into people’s preferred medium of receiving diagnostic news depending on their perception of their health status (either sick or healthy).
Methods
Comprehensive research was carried out on two main groups of past and prospective patients, Polish respondents (N=72) and International respondents (N= 214), us...
Studium przypadku przedstawione w niniejszej publikacji stanowiło w grudniu 2018 roku jeden z elementów egzaminu ustnego ze specjalizacji z psychologii klinicznej w zakresie zaburzeń psychicznych człowieka dorosłego. Praca została oceniona pozytywnie przez komisję, a egzamin pisemny i ustny-zdane. Celem publikacji jest prezentacja przykładu, który...
Introduction: COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus SARS CoV-2, is the newest and the best known disease, which changed our reality in just a few weeks. It caused many changes in education and health system. The aim: To recount and summarise what is happening in Italian and Polish medical studies right now in the perspective of two students,...
Increasing evidence has shown that the immune system is involved in the schizophrenia development, with alterations in immune cell reactivity being one possible factor contributing to its pathogenesis. The purpose of the study was to evaluate in vitro the capability of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) obtained from subjects with schizophr...
Introduction. Smartphone has debuted in 1992. It combines functions of a regular phone with those of a portable computer. Nowadays it is spread worldwide and it is starting to serve as an educational tool more and more each day. Aim. Characteristics of smartphone usage as an educational and management tool amongst chosen group of students in Poland...
The aim of the study was to determine the extent of the phenomenon of professional burnout taking into account profession, sex and years of work among those working in dentistry. In order to describe the phenomenon of professional burnout, the Maslach Burnout Inventory was used to determine the level of the bornout. It was affirmed that dentists an...
The aim. The aim of the studies was to familiarize with the subjective assessment of work and exposure to occupational stress in a group of representatives of two dental
specialties- dentists and dental technicians. The research also aimed to compare job evaluation in terms of gender and work experience. .
Material and methods. A study involved 11...
Critical events and stress associated with them are an integral part of the
work in emergency medical services. Effective and safe tension relieving
is an important skill and personal competence. If an employee’s personal
defense mechanisms are supported by appropriate procedures recommended
and used by their employer, than it is easier for them to...
Introduction: Inappropriate sinus tachycardia is generally defined as an elevated resting heart rate (>90–100 bpm) with an
exaggerated response to physical or emotional stress and a clearly sinus mechanism which is not secondary to a diagnosed
somatic disease. Anxiety, a significant risk factor for cardiovascular disease, is recently recognized as...
Introduction: Inappropriate sinus tachycardia is generally defined as an elevated resting heart rate (>90–100 bpm) with an exaggerated response to physical or emotional stress and a clearly sinus mechanism which is not secondary to a diagnosed somatic disease. Anxiety, a significant risk factor for cardiovascular disease, is recently recognized as...
Introduction
Relation between psychology, psychiatry and cardiology are multidimensional and begin to have growing importance in the diagnosis and treatment of patients of cardiosurgery, electrocardiology and cardiac rehabilitation. Inappropriate sinus tachycardia (IST) is a rarely diagnosed clinical syndrome characterized by excessive resting hear...
Abstract
Background. Euthanasia is nowadays perceived in a different ways by the society. For some people is a way
of painless ending of one’s life, for the others is murder of the human being. Belonging to the different society
groups may be one of the reasons of the evaluation of the euthanasia and its legalization. Objectives. The aim of the stu...
Wstęp. Sytuacje traumatyzujące, które często towarzyszą pracownikom Zespołów Ratownictwa Medycznego,
mogą zaburzać mechanizmy związane ze sferą nawykowo – popędową i wpływać na stan emocjonalny, ale także
na podejmowanie przez pracowników zachowań szkodliwych dla zdrowia. Cel pracy. Celem pracy była ocena skali
zjawiska występowania ryzykownych zac...
Wielowymiarowe zależności między psychologią, psychiatrią a kardiologią mają coraz większe znaczenie
w diagnozowaniu i leczeniu pacjentów oddziałów kardiochirurgicznych i elektrokardiologicznych oraz rehabilitacji
kardiologicznej. Objawy związane z arytmią serca tworzą często bardzo złożony obraz, przez co stanowią istotny
problem kliniczny. Niepra...
Związki między psychologią, psychiatrią a kardiologią są wielowymiarowe i zaczynają mieć coraz większe znaczenie w diagnozowaniu i leczeniu pacjentów oddziałów kardiochirurgicznych, elektrokardiologicznych oraz rehabilitacji kardiologicznej. Objawy związane z arytmią serca mają często bardzo złożony obraz stanowiąc istotny problem kliniczny. Niepra...
Tłum jako zjawisko społeczne jest przedmiotem zainteresowań przedstawicieli nauk humanistycznych:
socjologów, psychologów, ale również nauk ścisłych: fizyków, architektów i innych. Ta przypadkowa, i z zasady krótkotrwała, zbiorowość ludzi, pozbawiona wewnętrznej organizacji, bez określonych norm i zasad postępowania może w sytuacji zarówno realnego...
Streszczenie
Wprowadzenie i cel. Ortoreksja jest definiowana jako nadmierne zaabsorbowanie tematyką jedzenia, przygotowywanie posiłków według ściśle określonych zasad, podporządkowanie swojego życia restrykcyjnej diecie. Celem badania była ocena zagrożenia ortoreksją wśród studentów kierunku dietetyka, ocena związku pomiędzy realizowanymi studiami...
Pomimo coraz szybszego tempa życia we współczesnym świecie, polscy rodzice znajdują czas na rozmowę z dzieckiem o sytuacji w szkole. Niemal 7 na 10 rodziców rozmawiało o niej z dzieckiem w dniu badania lub poprzedniego dnia, a 28%, rozmawiało o ocenach w okresie ostatnich kilku dni.
Wbrew obiegowej opinii, narzędzia pozwalające sprawnie uzyskiwać...
Mental crisis exerts a negative effect on somatic, psychological and social functioning of a mentally ill person. Mental disease is often accompanied by factors increasing the social exclusion and discrimination of patients. Another problem is deeply rooted stereotypes and prejudices functioning in the public opinion,
according to which people who...
Mental crisis exerts a negative effect on somatic, psychological and social functioning of a mentally ill person. Mental disease is often accompanied by factors increasing the social exclusion and discrimination of patients. Another problem is deeply rooted stereotypes and prejudices functioning in the public opinion, according to which people who...
Background. PTSD is prolonged reaction to a traumatic event which is a difficult experience for the individual.
Objective. The aim of the study was to evaluate the correlation between the level of sense of coherence and
the occurrence of PTSD symptoms among professional soldiers, to assess the role of sense of coherence in the emergence and persist...
The latest socio-economical changes have had a great impact on the perception of health issues. The definition of health according to the WHO is often citied here as a kind of postulate of psychical, psychological and sociological well being. Health education takes an important part in propagating ideas of promoting and protecting health and also s...
Background: Stress and tension associated with events firefighters witness may increase the likelihood of a variety of harmful behaviors. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the magnitude of using psychoactive substances in a group of firefighters from the Lodz Fire Department,to verify associations between psychobiological (anxiety, emotiona...
Stress and tension associated with events firefighters experience may increase the likelihood of a
variety of harmful behaviors. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the magnitude of psychoactive
substance use in a group of firefighters from the Lodz Fire Department, to investigate associations
between psychobiological (anxiety, emotional cont...
With the rise of its popularity the Internet has become another area where human sexuali-ty flourishes. It allows people to contact others to satisfy their sexual needs online.
Cybersex is a virtual sex during which two or more persons join in remotely via a computer network and send to each other sexually stimulating messages, describing their own...
Background. It has been noticed that psychotraumatic situations which produce stress and characterize
firefighters’ occupation may trigger various mechanisms related to habit and impulse sphere and influence their emotional state as well as behavior, which may include involvement in sexual risk behavior. Objectives. The purpose of the study was to...
Wstęp. Zauważono, że sytuacje psychotraumatyzujące, często towarzyszące strażakom w ich pracy zawodowej, mogą – jako bodźce stresogenne – zaburzać mechanizmy związane ze sferą nawykowo-popędową i wpływać na stan emocjonalny i zachowanie, w tym na podejmowanie zachowań ryzykownych seksualnie. Cele pracy. Celem pracy była ocena skali zjawiska występo...
Introduction:
According to the European Commission, bad mental health affects 27% of the population of Europe. Half of the cases of schizophrenia are being diagnosed before the age of 30. A significant proportion of people suffering from mental disorders have a low degree of education and professional qualifications inadequate to the requirements o...
Wstęp
Według danych Komisji Europejskiej zły stan zdrowia psychicznego dotyka 27% mieszkańców Europy. Połowę zachorowań na schizofrenię stwierdza się przed 30 rokiem życia. Znaczna część osób cierpiących na zaburzenia psychiczne legitymuje się niskim stopniem wykształcenia oraz kwalifikacjami zawodowymi nieadekwatnymi do wymagań rynku pracy. Kryzys...
Jeśli przyciągnąłem twoją uwagę powyższym tytułem to znaczy, że osiągnąłem założony cel. Jest nim zainteresowanie ciebie problemem komunikacji nauczyciela z uczniem i rzeczywiście nie będzie to kolejny artykuł na temat komunikacji, jej rodzajów czy barier. Potraktuj niniejszy tekst jako konkretne wskazówki, narzędzie pracy. Tak jak każde narzędzie...
Pobudzanie przedsiębiorczości akademickiej może się dokonywać m.in. poprzez zmianę sposobu myślenia
studentów i naukowców. Wyniki badań pokazują, że w pierwszej kolejności należałoby stworzyć w miejscu
pracy badanych bardziej przyjazny „klimat” niż obecnie panujący. Wtedy deklarowane chęci założenia własnej firmy miałyby większe szanse na urzeczywi...
Cel pracy: Celem przeprowadzonych badań była próba oceny poziomu lęku jako stanu i jako cechy oraz ustalenie ewentualnej zależności między odczuwanym lękiem a oceną otrzymywanego wsparcia w grupie członków oddziałów bojowych Jednostek Ratowniczo-Gaśniczych oraz w grupie pracowników administracyjnych PSP.
Materiał i metody: W przeprowadzonych badani...
Introduction: Gastrointestinal disorders, among others functional dyspepsia (FD), are one of the main reasons for excessive costs of long-term and insufficiently effective therapy. For some time now, discussion on causal mechanisms has also involved fields other than biological for consideration, mainly psychological and social, due to accompanying...
Introduction: The popularisation of knowledge on health behaviours and creating positive attitudes towards health among disabled people play a significant role in improving their quality of life. Material and Methods: Health behaviours were estimated on the basis of a group of disabled students consisting of 26 students from "Specialised School for...
Study aim: To identify differences between teenagers practicing tennis and those not en-gaged in sports with respect to personality variables and in perceived competitive skills.
Material and methods: Male and female subjects aged 14 – 15 years, playing tennis and un-trained ones (4 groups in all, n = 20 each) participated in the study. Personality...
