Publications by authors named "A Grigoriadou"

The global spread of COVID-19 led the World Health Organization to declare a pandemic on 11 March 2020. To decelerate this spread, countries have taken strict measures that have affected the lifestyles and economies. Various studies have focused on the identification of COVID-19's impact on the mental health of children and adolescents via traditional statistical approaches.

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Background: The association between peripheral striated muscle strength and respiratory muscle strength has been confirmed in a number of disorders. However, this association is unknown in intensive care unit patients with tracheostomies.

Objective: To examine correlations between handgrip force, maximum inspiratory pressure (MIP), and maximum expiratory pressure (MEP) in intensive care unit patients with tracheostomies.

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Language, socio-emotional and cognitive development in children and adolescents with mental health issues is getting increased attention over the last years. Establishing communication patterns and addressing behavioural diversities among this population should be of priority, along with a better understanding in a large variety of patient characteristics within the operational framework of mental healthcare centers Therefore, the relationships between provided services and operational capability should become more evident. As integrated systems' approaches are still missing to predict the efficiency of treatment services in a macroscopic scale, a General Systems Theory framework is hereby proposed.

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Viroids are plant infecting, non - coding RNA molecules of economic importance. Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd), the type species of Pospiviroidae family, has been shown to be affected by specific RNA silencing pathways. Dicer like 1 (DCL1), a key player in micro RNA (miRNA) pathway has been previously linked with PSTVd infectivity.

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