Publications by authors named "E Kritsiotakis"
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- - The study explores the unique experiences of mothers whose children are recovering from addiction, emphasizing that these mothers often go unnoticed and face significant trauma and isolation.
- - Through analyzing interviews, four key themes emerged from the mothers' journeys: the trauma of loss, their coping strategies, the search for new meaning and identity, and feelings of connection and gratitude as they navigate recovery.
- - The findings highlight the need for health and social care professionals to recognize and empathize with the challenges mothers face due to addiction, advocating for better support systems that consider the impact on entire families.
Background: There is an increasing trend of door locking practices in acute psychiatric care. The aim of the present study was to illuminate the symbolic dimensions of doors in Greek mental health nurses' experiences of open and locked working spaces.
Results: A sequential mixed-method designexplored the experiences of nurses working in both open and locked psychiatric acute care units.
Social distancing and the recent lockdown due to COVID-19 have increased the feeling of disconnection, isolation, and suffering in vulnerable individuals and have brought forward questions regarding locked acute care psychiatric units that cannot be answered by the literature. In Greece, there is no available research on how locked ward environments are perceived and experienced by mental health professionals. The aim of the present study is to illuminate nursing care providers' perceptions of psychiatric care in units with locked doors.
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