Aim: Due to the COVID pandemic and technological innovation, robots gain increasing role in nursing services. While studies investigated negative attitudes of nurses towards robots, we lack an understanding of nurses' preferences about robot characteristics. Our aim was to explore how key robot features compare when weighed together.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The proportion of elderly is on the rise both in Europe and in Hungary. The challenge is to increase the number of years spent in good health as well as to improve quality of life of those 60 years and above. This study focuses on the impact of physical activity on this age group.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: National, regional and global trends in prevalence of infertility indicate its public health importance, however it effects various life dimensions of individuals and couples as well. Lifestyle habits may counteract with these factors. The aim of the study was the multicausal analysis of psychosocial and lifestyle factors undergoing assisted reproductive therapy (ART) with special regard to pre-treatment habitual physical activity (PA).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Physically active lifestyle can prolong the years spent without chronic diseases and is strongly associated with good mental and physical health. The goal of the study was to examine the physical activity patterns of the healthy adults and the effectiveness of a community-based e-health program.
Methods: The study sample comprised of 633 participants.
Background: It is well known that physical activity (PA) has health benefits. This study aimed to examine physical activity carried out by the senior (over 50) participants and its relation to their quality of life (QoL).
Methods: Surveillance of PA and QoL was measured by using questionnaires (GPAQ, WHOQoL-BREF) in this study.
Aim: To discriminate low/medium/high burnout in nurses by work and patient-related indicators and explore what factors characterize these categories best.
Methods: Cross-sectional, online survey with a representative sample of nurses. Measures assessed burnout, intragroup conflict, job insecurity, overt aggression and impact of patient aggression on nurses.
Objective: The aim of the research was to explore how sense of coherence (SOC) and work values (WVs) impact on stress and perceived health of midwives. Sense of coherence, by definition, reflects a person's view of life and capacity to respond to stressful situations. A further goal was to evaluate the mediating effect of WVs between stress and health.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Violence against health care providers is getting more awareness nowadays. This topic is in the focus of international scientific attention also, although in Hungary exact data is lacking.
Aim: The present study aimed to assess the correlations between violent acts against health care workers and their effects with different sociodemographic and workplace-related factors.
Introduction: Development of children's primary care may only take place through proper monitoring of both providers and recipients.
Aim: The aim of the study was to investigate the parental satisfaction with the doctor of 0-7 years old children.
Method: The research took place in Budapest and five Hungarian counties in "Early Childhood (0-7 years) Programme 6.
Arch Gerontol Geriatr
August 2009
Dietetics contributes to life-long, sustainable health and optimal life quality of people. The knowledge of the nutritional state can be informative and normative in order to optimize personal care. The aims of this study were to summarize the relevant legislative considerations of nourishing the elderly in different long-term residential social institutions and to screen the nutritional state of those living there.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn 1989, approximately half of the medical visits in Hungary were to factory doctors. Two thousand physicians in the National Health Service were assigned to factories and all medical students served in factories as part of their training. There were certainly problems in the system, but workers preferred the factory doctors to other physicians based in communities or districts; and factory physicians knew about workplace hazards, knew what production processes looked like, and were mandated to deal with work environment problems as well as provide other kinds of patient care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Hungarian bisphosphonate market has been increasing for years; last year the number of patients was approximately 3200-3500. We decided to start a research among patients having malignant disease with bone metastases, in order to find out how patients evaluate the drugs, how they are informed and what is the role of doctors and nurses in compliance. Nearly 300 patients filled questionnaires and we have made 16 in-depth interviews.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Alternative medicine has a growing popularity in Hungary as well as in other Western countries. However, we are in lack of accurate empirical data on the use of this kind of care and its relationship toward official health care system.
Aims: This paper focuses on the questions of the use of, prospective willingness to use, and attitudes toward alternative medicine with regard to the demographic background, general health status and habits of visiting doctors.