Informal carers' experiences and feelings during rehabilitation.

The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences and feelings of people caring for patients with long-term diseases in a rehabilitation centre. A qualitative research approach was used. Fifteen informal carers were interviewed.

Health visitors' perceptions on their role to assess and manage postpartum depression cases in the community.

The present study gives an insight into the health visitors' perceptions on their role in assessing, managing, and supporting mothers with postpartum depression (PPD). The study took place in Cyprus among health visitors of a community Maternity and Child Welfare Clinic using qualitative approach. Data were collected through individual semistructured interviews.

Informal Caregivers in Greek Hospitals: a Unique Phenomenon of a Health System in Financial Crisis.

Background: In Greece it is quite common for family members to provide informal unpaid care for another family member during hospitalization, alongside healthcare professionals. Understaffing and lack of nursing personnel, due to austerity measures implemented in Greece during the last eight years, force families to provide informal care during hospitalization. The aim of the research was to study the role of informal caregivers (IC) during a family's member hospitalization, factors affecting their presence and patient's needs that were met by them.

Exploring home care nurses' perceptions regarding their services in economic crisis: A qualitative approach.

This article explores the home care nurses' perceptions on the services they provide in Cyprus, which has been hit by a financial crisis. Semistructured interviews were conducted in Greek at the home care nurses' offices. Data were analyzed using qualitative content analysis.

Physical therapists' perceptions about patients with incomplete post-traumatic paraplegia adherence to recommended home exercises: a qualitative study.

Background: The overall purpose of physical therapy for patients with spinal cord injury is to improve health-related quality of life. However, poor adherence is a problem in physical therapy and may have negative impact on outcomes.

Objectives: To explore the physical therapists' perspectives about patients with incomplete post-traumatic paraplegia adherence to recommended home exercises.

Quality of Life in Elderly Cancer Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy.

Introduction: As life expectancy increases, it is expected that 60% of all cases of cancer will be detected in elderly patients in the next two decades. Cancer treatment for older persons is complicated by a number of factors, thus negatively affecting patients' quality of life.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate quality of life in elderly cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.

Exploring Religiosity, Self-Esteem, Stress, and Depression Among Students of a Cypriot University.

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between Religiosity, Self-esteem, Stress, and Depression among nursing students, social work students, and early-education students of a Cypriot University. The data were collected using four questionnaires. The results indicate a significant positive association between Depression and Stress.

Evaluating female nursing students' knowledge and attitudes regarding breast self-examination.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate female nursing students' knowledge and attitudes regarding breast self-examination (BSE). The sample consisted of 175 nursing students from a university in Cyprus. We collected data via a questionnaire that included the Greek version of the Champion Health Belief Model scale and questions regarding the participants' demographic characteristics.

Kuopio University Hospital Job Satisfaction Scale (KUHJSS): its validation in the Greek language.

Aim: Τranslation and validation of the Kuopio University Hospital Job Satisfaction Scale.

Background: Nurses' job satisfaction is crucial for the smooth functioning of the health-care system.

Methods: A Greek translation of the scale was made and administered to 126 psychiatric nurses; 60 filled it out again after 15 days.

Fathers' feelings related to their partners' childbirth and views on their presence during labour and childbirth: A descriptive quantitative study.

This study examined Chinese fathers' feelings about their partners' delivery and views on their presence during labour and birth. A questionnaire survey was conducted with 403 fathers whose partners gave birth in one provincial hospital in China. Data were analysed by descriptive statistics, χ(2)-test and content analysis.

Factors affecting the decision to quit smoking of the participants of a hospital-based smoking cessation program in Greece.

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors that affect people who are in the process of quitting smoking.

Methods: A randomly selected sample of 110 participants in a smoking cessation program (SCP) of a hospital in Thessaloniki Greece. Instruments of data collection were: i) the Demographic Data Lifestyle Questionnaire and ii) the Fragerstrom Tolerance Questionnaire.

Greek fathers' experiences from their wife's/partner's labour and delivery: A qualitative approach.

This study aimed at exploring Greek fathers' experiences from their wives/partners' labour and delivery, and their perceptions about aspects of delivery care that need to be improved. It took place at hospital maternity clinics at the greater area of Thessaloniki, Greece. Participants were fathers whose wife/partner had given birth one week to one year before the data collection.

Religious and spiritual beliefs, self-esteem, anxiety, and depression among nursing students.

Research of the role of religious belief and/or spirituality has been conducted on a wide range of health-related topics, across many disciplines, and in many countries. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between religious beliefs, self-esteem, anxiety, and depression in nursing students in Cyprus. One hundred and twenty-three nursing students were asked to complete a survey consisting of four self-report questionnaires (Beck Depression Inventory, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, The Royal Free Interview for Religious and Spiritual Beliefs, and Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale).

Prevalence and risk factors of excess weight in school children in West Greece.

The present study estimated the prevalence of childhood obesity and identified risk factors in 10-13 year old children. A cross-sectional study was conducted, including 200 children and their parents, in seven randomly-selected primary schools across Patras, Greece. Height, weight, and waist circumference were measured, and self-reported information was collected via face-to-face interviews.

Mothers' experiences of pregnancy, labour and childbirth: a qualitative study in Northern Greece.

This qualitative study aims at describing the mothers' most positive and negative experiences during pregnancy, labour and childbirth, and at identifying the aspects of pregnancy monitoring and obstetric care that should be developed most urgently in the future. The sample consisted of 607 mothers. The data were analyzed using content analysis.

In-hospital informal caregivers' needs as perceived by themselves and by the nursing staff in Northern Greece: A descriptive study.

Background: Informal care is common in many countries, especially in Greece, where families provide care in hospitals. Health education and informational needs are important factors for family members which are often underestimated by nursing staff. The aim of this study was to compare the perceptions of the nurses and the in-hospital informal caregivers about the in-hospital informal caregivers' knowledge and informational needs, as well as the factors that influence these perceptions.

Fathers' Feelings and Experience Related to their Wife/Partner's Delivery in Northern Greece.

Objectives: The study aims at exploring the feelings and the experience of fathers about their wife/partner's delivery.

Background: During the last decades birth attendance by fathers is a common phenomenon across many countries. Fathers' birth attendance may evoke both positive and negative feelings.

Satisfaction from the 'Help at Home' programme in a prefecture of central Greece.

Greece is facing the issue of increasing elderly population and therefore local municipalities started the 'Help at Home' programme. The aim of this study is to investigate the elderly's satisfaction from the 'Help at Home' programme in a prefecture of central Greece. The sample consisted of 300 elderly people who receive services from the 'Help at Home' programme.

Nursing staff shortage and in-hospital informal care in an oncology hospital in Greece: the nursing staff's perceptions.

There is a broad variety of factors that are contributing to the nursing staff shortage. They include low wages, poor image of nursing, job satisfaction, ageing of the nursing workforce and cost reductions. In the Greek National Health System, there is a policy of open-visiting hours in hospitals.

Dimensions of informal care in Greece: the family's contribution to the care of patients hospitalized in an oncology hospital.

Aims And Objectives: This study aims to explore the kind and frequency of care provided to hospitalized cancer patients by relatives and the reasons for providing this care.

Background: Informal care is a common phenomenon across many countries. In Greece, informal caring activities occur in most hospitals.

Mothers' experiences of maternity services: internal consistency and test-retest reliability of the Greek translation of the Kuopio Instrument for Mothers.

Objective: the Kuopio Instrument for Mothers (KIM) questionnaire assesses mothers' experiences of maternity services during pregnancy and delivery. The aim of this study was to translate the questionnaire into Greek, and to evaluate the internal consistency and test-retest reliability of the Greek version of the KIM.

Methods: 77 mothers completed both the test and the retest questionnaire.

Test-retest reliability of the Kuopio instrument for fathers (KIF): a questionnaire to assess fathers' feelings, experiences and preparation for their wife/partner's delivery.

Objective: to assess the test-retest reliability of the Greek version of the Kuopio Instrument for Fathers (KIF) questionnaire that explores fathers' feelings, experiences and preparation for their wife/partner's delivery.

Design: the KIF questionnaire was translated into Greek, back translated and adapted to the Greek population. After a pilot test, it was administered to a sample of fathers.

The experience of brace treatment in children/adolescents with scoliosis.

Background: Idiopathic scoliosis is a chronic illness with several different braces used for its treatment. Brace treatment during childhood/adolescence can produce stress. There are studies supporting that it can decrease body-image perception while other studies support that it has no such effect.

A qualitative study on the experiences of mothers caring for their children with thalassemia in Athens, Greece.

This qualitative study investigated the caregiving experiences of mothers of children with thalassemia. Using a semistructured questionnaire, the researchers interviewed a convenient sample of 19 mothers who have children with thalassemia. A considerable failure to provide information regarding carrier testing prior to marriage or genetic screening for thalassemia during early pregnancy at the time of the participants' pregnancies was noted.