[REHABILITATION FOR POST-COVID-19 PATIENTS IN HADASSAH DURING 2020-2022].

Aims: The COVID-19 pandemic has long-lasting deleterious effects on many aspects of the survivors' life. However, the correlations between the severity of COVID-19 infection and rehabilitation outcomes are still unknown.

Methods: Sixty-one post-acute COVID-19 patients underwent a customized rehabilitation program in a rehabilitation daycare facility.

Correlations between Disease Severity and Rehabilitation Outcomes in Patients Recovering from Covid-19 Infection.

Objective: Based on long-term follow-up of patients with COVID-19, to evaluate whether the severity of acute COVID-19 infection affects rehabilitation outcomes.

Design: Observational cohort study.

Subjects: A total of 61 post-acute COVID-19 patients underwent inpatient and outpatient customized rehabilitation treatment.

Assessing the fear of COVID-19 scale among health care workers in Israel: a psychometric validation study.

We explored the psychometric properties of the Hebrew version of the Fear of COVID-19 (FCV-19S) scale among health care workers in a large medical center in Israel. Participants ( = 705) completed the FCV-19S scale, as well as resilience, subjective well-being, and meaning in life using validated scales. Results showed a two-factor structural model accounting for 79.

Risk factors for functional deterioration in a cohort with late effects of poliomyelitis: A ten-year follow-up study.

Background: More than 7000 patients developed poliomyelitis during the main epidemic in the fifties in Israel. In recent years, there is a further deterioration in their condition due to accelerated aging process and post-polio syndrome.

Objective: To evaluate the risk factors for the progression of functional status in a cohort of patients with late effect of poliomyelitis over a period of ten years.

[DISEASE SEVERITY AND PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH AMONG POLIOMYELITIS PATIENTS IN JERUSALEM - 10 YEARS FOLLOW-UP STUDY].

Introduction: More than 7000 patients contracted poliomyelitis (polio) during the major epidemic in the fifties in Israel. In recent years, there is further deterioration in their condition due to the accelerated aging process and post-polio syndrome.

Objectives: To evaluate the correlation between disease severity, functional and psychological parameters among polio patients in Jerusalem over a period of 10 years.

Hospice Care: Hope and Meaning in Life Mediate Subjective Well-Being of Staff.

Objectives: Subjective well-being has been associated with decreased work burnout and elevated work engagement. We investigated the impact of hope and meaning in life on subjective well-being among workers in a hospice care setting. Comparison was made to health-care workers in a rehabilitation unit.

Long-standing poliomyelitis and psychological health.

Objective: To compare the psychological health of the individuals with long-standing poliomyelitis, with or without post-polio syndrome (PPS), to the general population and to identify the role of work as well as other variables with regard to their psychological health.

Design: A cross-sectional study.

Subjects: One hundred and ninety-five polio patients attending postpolio clinic in Jerusalem.

A virtual reality system combined with biofeedback for treating pediatric chronic headache--a pilot study.

Objective: Pediatric headache is highly widespread and is associated with distress and reduced quality of life. Pharmacological treatment of chronic headache in children has been only partially effective and, as in medication-overuse headache, can sometimes be counterproductive. Therefore, there is a substantial need to develop other effective methods of treatment.

Novel virtual reality system integrating online self-face viewing and mirror visual feedback for stroke rehabilitation: rationale and feasibility.

Purpose: To introduce the rationale of a novel virtual reality system based on self-face viewing and mirror visual feedback, and to examine its feasibility as a rehabilitation tool for poststroke patients.

Method: A novel motion capture virtual reality system integrating online self-face viewing and mirror visual feedback has been developed for stroke rehabilitation.The system allows the replacement of the impaired arm by a virtual arm.

Post-polio syndrome: impact of hope on quality of life.

Purpose: To determine the effect of future-oriented coping strategies on the quality of life (QOL) of individuals with post-polio syndrome (PPS).

Methods: A correlative study, in which a cohort of 61 patients was surveyed and a group of 40 healthy, age-matched individuals served as controls. Patients were surveyed as to their QOL, levels of hope and utilization of proactive coping, employment status and degree of functionality.

The association between reality-based beliefs and indirectly experienced traumatization.

The purpose of the study was to examine the association between belief types and the magnitude of indirect traumatization. Specific types of beliefs were defined in terms of the cognitive orientation theory, which is a cognitive-motivational approach to the understanding, predicting, and changing of behaviors. Belief types that were analyzed included beliefs about self, general beliefs, beliefs about norms, and goal beliefs as they relate to personal growth.

[Rehabilitation outcomes of terror victims with multiple trauma: the experience in Hadassah University Hospital 2000-2004].

From late September 2000 until 2005, the State of Israel was attacked by continuing acts of terrorism known as the Al Aqsa Intifada. During this period the number of terror victims treated in rehabilitation facilities has escalated significantly. The city of Jerusalem has a unique place in the heart of the Israel-Palestinian conflict and, therefore, almost 20% of national atrocities have been carried out in Jerusalem.

Positive and negative psychological impact after secondary exposure to politically motivated violence among body handlers and rehabilitation workers.

The positive and negative psychological impact of secondary exposure to politically motivated violence was examined among body handlers and hospital rehabilitation workers, 2 groups that differed in their proximity and immediacy to violent events. Survivors of politically motivated violence served as a comparison group. Body handlers experienced high levels of positive psychological impact and traumatic stress symptoms.

Positive psychological impact of treating victims of politically motivated violence among hospital-based health care providers.

Background: Health care personnel treating victims of politically motivated violence are at risk for traumatic stress symptoms. Few studies have assessed the positive psychological impact of politically motivated violence on health care workers. In this study, the level of positive psychological impact among health care workers with recurrent exposure to victims of politically motivated violence was examined.

Positive psychological impact of bariatric surgery.

Background: Psychological impact of bariatric surgery has been described mostly in terms of reduction of psychopathology. This exploratory study examines the impact of bariatric surgery in terms of positive psychological growth and development.

Methods: 57 patients who underwent LAGB were recruited to this study; 31 patients (54.

Rehabilitation outcomes of terror victims with multiple traumas.

Objectives: To describe the rehabilitation outcomes of terror victims with multiple traumas, and to compare those outcomes with those of patients with nonterror-related multiple traumas treated in the same rehabilitation facility over the same time period.

Design: Retrospective chart reviews.

Setting: Rehabilitation department in a university hospital in Jerusalem, Israel.