Publications by authors named "Magdalena Iorga"

: The goal of this study was to evaluate the levels of organizational justice, social support, wellbeing, and lifelong learning associated with the level of burnout experienced by medical and non-medical staff from public and private medical units. : A cross-sectional study was conducted on a sample of 497 healthcare professionals: 367 medical personnel (M = 43.75 ± 0.

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Background And Objectives: The goal of this study was to evaluate the levels of organizational justice, emotional regulation, and workload associated with the level of burnout experienced in medical and non-medical staff from public and private medical units.

Materials And Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on a sample of 230 healthcare professionals, including 139 medical personnel and 91 non-medical staff respondents. The collected socio-demographic and organizational data and psychological tools were the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI HSS), the ECO System, and the emotional regulation questionnaire (ERQ).

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The increasing phenomenon of cyberbullying among adolescents needs parental, educational, and social intervention. The study aimed to identify the prevalence of cyberbullying among Romanian adolescents and the importance of gender, family-related factors, self-esteem, and parental styles in both victims and perpetrators. A total of 835 adolescents aged 10-19 years were included in the research.

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: Studies in the recent decades show that the medical profession has a high risk to develop burnout due to constant exposure to mental and physical suffering or death. The pandemic period induced additional stress for healthcare professionals due to the likelihood of a high rate of infection, long working shifts, using protective equipment, staying away from family, implementing new medical procedures. The present study is focusing on assessing the prevalence of burnout among physicians working in the healthcare system during the COVID-19 pandemic, and discovering the main factors associated with burnout syndrome among the population of physicians.

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Unlabelled: The use of social networking sites for socializing, having fun, solving academic tasks or even getting counselling for health-related problems is now inevitable.

Methods: A total of 427 medical students, who are users of social media sites, were included in the research. Data about socio-demographic, anthropometric, and self-rated items regarding satisfaction with physical and mental health were collected.

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: Medical malpractice is a phenomenon that shadows current medical practice, the number of complaints following an upward trend worldwide. The background for complaints is related both to the doctor and medical practice in general, as well as to the patient. The aim of this study was to identify a profile of the Romanian doctors who are more prone to receiving complaints, by analyzing the socio-demographic, professional and institutional characteristics.

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Without mandatory school-based education, Romania is a leading European country in teen pregnancy. This survey aimed at assessing the level of knowledge and the opinions about sexual education and sexual-related issues among mothers of female teenagers aged 13-18 years old. : The survey was conducted between 2015 and 2017 and had four parts, collecting data about sociodemographic variables, the level of knowledge about sexuality, sexually transmitted diseases, and contraception.

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: The goal of this survey was to identify the relationship between the level of satisfaction with body image, perceived health, and the usage of social media among freshmen medical university students. The influence of social media and peers was also related to body image. : An online survey was distributed among freshmen healthcare students.

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Various studies have shown the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on mental health, identifying that people with a strong fear of getting infected are more prone to become stressed, depressed, anxious and to experience sleeping disturbance. The present study focuses on the impact of fear of COVID-19 and its relationship with insomnia among dentists. 83 dentists from public and private clinics were included in the research.

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Unlabelled: During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, dental faculties had to rethink their way of teaching and interacting with students and of delivering solid theoretical knowledge and practical skills to students.

Background: The purpose of the study was to assess dentistry students' opinions about the online activity, together with a self-evaluation of their mental and physical health, during the first wave of the pandemic.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted using an online survey.

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Dental clinics were suspected to be a hotspot for nosocomial transmission of COVID-19 due to the easy spread of the virus. The study investigated the preventive behaviors applied in dentistry settings and the level of fear of COVID-19 infection among dentists. A total of 83 respondents (34.

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: The beginning of the SARS-Cov-2 pandemic period has had a strong impact on patients' life, but also on doctors. The main goal of this research is to identify the difficulties related to the professional activity and personal life of obstetrics and gynecology doctors. : In total, 94 physicians from a single university center answered to an online questionnaire.

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There is an array of reasons why acculturation can be stressful, and acculturative stress can be triggered by a plethora of factors. The aim of the study was to identify factors associated with acculturative stress among international students enrolled in a public medical university from Romania. 265 students were included in the research.

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. Medical malpractice is an increasing phenomenon all over the world, and Romania is not spared. This matter is of concern as it has a significant impact on the physicians and the patients involved, as well as on the health care system and society in general.

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Changing dietary habits of university students is due to personal, social, educational or religious factors. The relationship between dietary habits and presence of eating disorders among university students is less known in Romania. : Ninety-one pharmacy students (91.

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Introduction: We aim to highlight the utility of this model in the analysis of the psycho-behavioral implications of family cancer, presenting the scientific literature that used Leventhal's model as the theoretical framework of approach.

Material And Methods: A systematic search was performed in six databases (EBSCO, ScienceDirect, PubMed Central, ProQuest, Scopus, and Web of Science) with empirical studies published between 2006 and 2015 in English with regard to the Common Sense Model of Self-Regulation (CSMR) and familial/hereditary cancer. The key words used were: illness representations, common sense model, self regulatory model, familial/hereditary/genetic cancer, genetic cancer counseling.

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Research in the field has identified the presence of stress and depression among medical students. However, no other study has pointed out the differences between years of study. The objectives of the study are to identify the levels of stress and depression among medical students and to point out the relationship between these two variables.

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Article Synopsis
  • The study aimed to explore how environmental factors, personality traits, and alexithymia affect burnout syndrome in obstetrics and gynecology doctors.
  • It involved 116 physicians completing various questionnaires, revealing that a notable percentage experience depression and insomnia, with women reporting higher emotional exhaustion and depersonalization than men.
  • The findings suggest that understanding these influences can assist doctors in managing burnout by addressing their personal characteristics and the work environment.
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: The purpose of this study is to identify the level of job satisfaction among hospital pharmacists in Romania in relation to environmental, socio-demographic, and individual factors. : Seventy-eight hospital pharmacists were included in the research. The Job Satisfaction Scale was used to measure the level of satisfaction with their current jobs, and the TAS-20 was used to evaluate emotional experience and awareness.

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. The study investigated the differences between patients with and without a family history of cancer regarding coping strategies, illness perception, and family adaptability to the disease. .

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Functional constipation is an issue for both the patient and his/her family, affecting the patient's psychoemotional balance, social relations, and their harmonious integration in the school environment. We aimed to highlight the connection between chronic constipation and encopresis and the patient's psychosocial and family-related situation. .

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The Aim: The aim of the study was to identify the relationship between the level of burnout subdomains and alexithymia among forensic physicians working in forensic institutions in Romania.

Material And Methods: A number of 37 forensic physicians were included in the survey. Burnout and alexithymia were measured by using the Maslach Burnout Inventory and Toronto Alexithymia Scale.

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The Aim: The aim of the study was to identify the relationship between the strength of motivation of medical students, the symptoms they experience, the thoughts of dropping out and the satisfaction with the academic results obtained during their last exam session. The relationship between depression and physical symptoms was also explored.

Material And Methods: A number of 91 students from 4th year of study were included in the survey.

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The Aim: The aim of the research is to analyze the social perception of mentally disabled people and of attitudes toward them among teachers, according to certain variables such as subjects' age, gender, type of education and degree of interaction with mentally disabled people, understood as work experience with mentally disabled children.

Material And Methods: A number of 120 teachers (44 men and 76 women) answered to a 26 items of Scale of perceptions and attitudes regarding mentally disabled people investigating the following dimensions: the concept of mental disability, the image of mentally disabled people, integration into society, education. Several variables were taken into consideration.

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