Publications by authors named "Sofia Xesfingi"
Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease incidence has risen mainly due to poor control of preventable risk factors and still constitutes a significant financial and health burden worldwide. ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence language-based model developed by OpenAI. Due to the model's unique cognitive capabilities beyond data processing and the production of high-quality text, there has been a surge of research interest concerning its role in the scientific community and contemporary clinical practice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and affective disorders (anxiety/depression) constitute important pathologies in the elderly population, and their coexistence creates synergistically increased problems in functional ability and quality of life of the patients.
Purpose: Evaluation of anxiety, distress, and depression in elderly (≥65 years old) patients with RA.
Patients – Methods: 114 patients from the cities of Patras, Arta and Ioannina (all located in Western Greece) were included.
Background Of Context: Priority setting and resource allocation across various healthcare functions are critical issues in health policy and strategic decision making. As health resources are limited while there are so many health challenges to resolve, consumers and payers have to make difficult decisions about expenditure allocation.
Objective: Our research focus on the (dis)agreement between citizens' preferences and actual public health expenditure across broad healthcare functions, on whether this (dis)agreement is persistent, on whether various demographic factors amplify this (dis)agreement and to derive useful implications for public health policies.
Background: Understanding the factors that influence eHealth in a country is particularly important for health policy decision makers and the health care market, as it provides critical information to develop targeted and tailored interventions for relevant patient-consumer segments, and further suggests appropriate strategies for training the health illiterate part of the population.
Objective: The objective of the study is to assess the eHealth literacy level of Greek citizens, using the eHealth Literacy Scale (eHEALS), and further explore the factors that shape it and are associated with it.
Methods: This empirical study relies on a unique sample of 1064 citizens in Greece in the year 2013.
Background: Patient satisfaction is an important measure of healthcare quality as it offers information on the provider's success at meeting clients' expectations and is a key determinant of patients' perspective behavioral intention. The aim of this paper is first to assess the degree of patient satisfaction, and second, to study the relationship between patient satisfaction of healthcare system and a set of socio-economic and healthcare provision indicators.
Methods: This empirical analysis covers 31 countries for the years 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2012.