Self-Care and Compliance with Medication and Their Relationship to the Quality of Life of Patients with Heart Failure.

Introduction: Heart failure is a major health problem, often accompanied by limited physical activity and severe effects in various areas of patient quality of life. Self-care, as well as compliance with medication, can further contribute to clinical stability and improved patient outcomes.

Purpose: The purpose of this chapter is to assess the effect of self-care and compliance with medication, on the quality of life of patients with heart failure.

GREEK MILITARY NURSING OFFICERS' COMPASSION COMPETENCE AND COMPASSION LEVEL AT WORK AND THEIR PROFESSIONAL QUALITY OF LIFE.

Objective: Aim: Of this study was to investigate the level of Military Nursing Officers'(MNOS) compassion competence and their personal level of compassion at work and their correlation with the professional quality of life.

Patients And Methods: Materials and methods This is a cross-sectional study carried out from December 2019 to May 2020 using the method of convenience sampling. The study involved 235 MNOs serving in Greek Military Hospitals.

Social media in health care: Exploring its use by health-care professionals in Greece.

The lockdown restrictions that have emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic have reshaped the way people live, work, and interact with each other. At the same time, it changed the way health-care professionals and national health-care systems around the world are fighting in this battle for public health. Social media (SoMe) have played their informational role in this fight with almost one-third of the world's population being active users of social media platforms.

Work-related musculoskeletal disorders among Greek hospital nursing professionals: A cross-sectional observational study.

Background: The serious shortages of nurses are related to increased risk for musculoskeletal disorders during work. The complexity of patient care places nurses at high-risk for injury and high in the list of occupations with risk for work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSD).

Objective: The current study evaluated the association of personal, professional and health factors with the development of WMSD in the nursing staff of hospitals in the capital of Greece.

Application of data mining techniques and data analysis methods to measure cancer morbidity and mortality data in a regional cancer registry: The case of the island of Crete, Greece.

Background And Objective: Micro or macro-level mapping of cancer statistics is a challenging task that requires long-term planning, prospective studies and continuous monitoring of all cancer cases. The objective of the current study is to present how cancer registry data could be processed using data mining techniques in order to improve the statistical analysis outcomes.

Methods: Data were collected from the Cancer Registry of Crete in Greece (counties of Rethymno and Lasithi) for the period 1998-2004.

Attitudes towards schizophrenia on YouTube: A content analysis of Finnish and Greek videos.

Objective: To investigate attitudes towards schizophrenia and people with schizophrenia presented in YouTube videos.

Methods: We searched YouTube using the search terms "schizophrenia" and "psychosis" in Finnish and Greek language on April 3rd, 2013. The first 20 videos from each search (N = 80) were retrieved.

Use of social media by healthcare professionals in Greece: an exploratory study.

The continuously and rapidly changing landscape in the fields of communications, Internet and social media make it imperative for professionals to better understand the role of Information and Communication Technologies and their impact on everyday activities. Several frameworks have been proposed in order to capture various dimensions of social media and measure their impact on people's social, professional and other activities. The effect of social media and Web 2.

New nonlinear multivariable model shows the relationship between central corneal thickness and HRTII topographic parameters in glaucoma patients.

Purpose: In this paper a new nonlinear multivariable regression method is presented in order to investigate the relationship between the central corneal thickness (CCT) and the Heidelberg Retina Tomograph (HRTII) optic nerve head (ONH) topographic measurements, in patients with established glaucoma.

Methods: Forty nine eyes of 49 patients with glaucoma were included in this study. Inclusion criteria were patients with (a) HRT II ONH imaging of good quality (SD < 30 mum), (b) reliable Humphrey visual field tests (30-2 program), and (c) bilateral CCT measurements with ultrasonic contact pachymetry.

Different intrafamilial clinical presentation of FMF mutation carriers.

Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is a heterogeneous disorder; at present, it is diagnosed using only genetic methods. In the current study, we performed molecular analysis in two families presenting with FMF. In the first family, we report two brothers with a common genotype (M694V/V726A) but with different clinical presentation.