Cognitive Functioning and Psychological Well-being in Breast Cancer Patients on Endocrine Therapy.

Background/aim: Anti-cancer therapies may deteriorate cognitive functioning, affective functioning and psychological well-being.

Materials And Methods: In this prospective longitudinal pilot study, premenopausal and postmenopausal patients received adjuvant endocrine therapy (ET) (tamoxifen with or without LHRH analog or aromatase inhibitor) or were observed only (control group). At baseline testing and 6, 12 and 24 months thereafter, cognitive, depression and anxiety tests and quality of life (QOL) measurements were performed.

Discriminating low-, medium- and high-burnout nurses: Role of organisational and patient-related factors.

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.

[Violence against health care providers and its correlations with sociodemographic and workplace-related factors].

Introduction: 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.

[Violent acts against health care providers].

Violence against health care providers is getting more awareness nowadays. These are usually deliberate actions committed by patients or family members of them resulting in short and long term physical or psychological debilitating harm in the staff members. The causes of the violent acts are usually rooted in patient-related factors, although some characteristics of the professionals and of the workplace may also play some role.

Temporal parameters of spontaneous speech in Alzheimer's disease.

This paper reports on four temporal parameters of spontaneous speech in three stages of Alzheimer's disease (mild, moderate, and severe) compared to age-matched normal controls. The analysis of the time course of speech has been shown to be a particularly sensitive neuropsychological method to investigate cognitive processes such as speech planning and production. The following parameters of speech were measured in Hungarian native-speakers with Alzheimer's disease and normal controls: articulation rate, speech tempo, hesitation ratio, and rate of grammatical errors.