Compassion Fatigue and Compassion Satisfaction in Pediatric Intensive Care Professionals.

Background: Paediatric ICU doctors and nurses' quality of professional life is influenced by the intense emotions and distress experienced when caring for suffering children and their families.

Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the prevalence of compassion satisfaction (CS) and compassion fatigue (CF) in Paediatric Intensive Care Units in Greece.

Methods: Out of 147 intensive care professionals in public hospitals in Greece completed the ProQOL-V scale as well as a socio-demographic and professional-life characteristics questionnaire.

Entropy in Cardiac Autonomic Nervous System of Adolescents with General Learning Disabilities or Dyslexia.

Heart rate variability (HRV) represents one of the two key markers of the autonomic nervous system. It is measured by the time variation in the beat-to-beat interval, while the period between successive beats is defined as the RR interval (RRI). Its components are classified as linear and non-linear.

Kisspeptin and the Genetic Obesity Interactome.

Background: Kisspeptin (encoded by the KISS1 gene in humans) is an excitatory neuromodulatory peptide implicated in multiple homeostatic systems, including anti-oxidation, glucose homeostasis, nutrition, locomotion, etc. Therefore, in the current obesity epidemic, kisspeptin is gaining increasing interest as a research objective.

Aim: To construct an updated interactome of genetic obesity, including the kisspeptin signal transduction pathway.

Researching Nursing Students' Attitudes toward Mental Health Practice: Cultural Adaptation and Validation of the Greek Version of the Acceptability of Locking the Door Questionnaire in Acute Psychiatric Care.

The present article describes the cultural adaptation and validation of the Greek version of the Acceptability of Locking the Door Questionnaire and aims to determine students' preference regarding mental health nursing as a possible career choice. The linguistic adaptation of the original instrument was performed according to the most recent guidelines and it was then administered to 274 third-year nursing students. Results support the validity and reliability of the instrument, which can be used to assess effectively the attitudes of the intended population.

Psychiatric Care in Acute Care Units with Locked Doors: Nursing Care Providers' Perceptions and Experiences.

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.