Publications by authors named "C Tzavara"
Mentally ill offenders face stigma, being perceived as both dangerous and unpredictable. This leads to social discrimination, which causes devaluation, distancing, and unequal treatment towards them. Critical and dismissive attitudes of healthcare professionals and police toward these patients undermine their care, treatment, and prospects for rehabilitation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn recent decades, a growing body of research has emphasized the unique nature of substance abuse among women, necessitating a gender-specific approach and thus individualized therapeutic interventions.The purpose of this study, based on the existential approach, was to examine whether symptoms of several behavioral addictions (shopping, sex, gambling and betting, eating) and alcohol use disorder correlate with death anxiety, lack of meaning in life, and levels of mental resilience in a convenience sample of women. A total of 3,176 women participated in this online study and completed a demographic characteristics questionnaire, the Shorter PROMIS Questionnaire (SPQ), the Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ), the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC), and the Death Anxiety Scale (DAS).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe purpose of the present study was to examine the efficacy of online Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Binge Eating Disorder (DBT-BED) in reducing eating psychopathology and investigate the factors that influence the severity and frequency of binge eating. Seventy-three individuals seeking treatment for BED participated in 20 two-hour group sessions. Participants completed the Emotional Eating Scale (EES), Binge Eating Scale (BES), and Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) before and after the treatment and at three- and six-month follow-ups.
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- Binge Eating Disorder (BED) is the most common eating disorder, necessitating the assessment of its symptoms and the effectiveness of treatments.
- The Binge Eating Scale (BES), a self-administered questionnaire, was translated into Greek for this study to evaluate its structure and psychometric properties among individuals with BED.
- Results showed that the Greek BES is a valid and reliable tool for assessing binge eating, demonstrating good internal consistency and significant correlations with related eating disorder measures and BMI.