The role of burnout among Hungarian nurses.

This study was aimed to explore the occurrence of burnout among nurses in health and social institutions in Baranya County of Hungary, to reveal the connections between burnout and sociodemographic factors, and to learn its extent in different types of care. The survey was a one-off, representative sample with 805 questionnaires processed. The questionnaire was an internationally used and accepted standard paper designed for assessing burnout syndrome.

Hungarian nurses' attitudes to euthanasia.

This paper reports a questionnaire survey of the attitudes of a representative sample of Hungarian nurses towards euthanasia.

Moral dilemmas of nursing in end-of-life care in Hungary: a personal perspective.

The authors' aim is to bring to the attention of readers the inadequacies of care for people in Hungary who are terminally ill. They believe that both objective and subjective factors cause these inadequacies. Most of these factors arise from moral dilemmas that could be eased or even solved if ethics education had a much more prominent place in the nursing curriculum.

Immunological side effects of some long term taking medicaments.

In view of epidemiologic aspects of AIDS we studied the immunological side-effects of oral hormonal contraceptives and the barbiturates--which are used by many people in Hungary. We studied healthy persons using more than six months one of the above described drugs. We found significant decrease in the number of "O" cells and in the serum concentration of IgG in the O.