The Occurrence of Anxiety, Depression, and Distress among Professionals Working in Emergency Care.

Maintaining mental health is essential for professions with higher stress levels and challenging environments, including emergency specializations. In this study, the occurrence of distress, anxiety, and depression among a group of ambulance and hospital emergency care professionals was assessed ( = 202). A cross-sectional, quantitative, descriptive online survey was conducted, including the internationally validated Beck depression inventory (BDI), the perceived stress scale (PSS-14), and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI).

[Changes of payment of physicians between 1998 and 2021 in Hungary].

Introduction: The development of the medical career model is a priority issue from the point of view of safe patient care.

Objective: In our research, we aimed to examine the average monthly income of doctors employed in Hungary between 1998 and 2021, especially with regard to the significant increase in medical payment in 2021.

Data And Methods: Data were derived from the database of the National Directorate General for Hospitals.

Disease-Specific Quality of Life among Patients with Peripheral Artery Disease in Hungary.

Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a progressive atherosclerotic disease significantly impacting functional status and health-related quality of life (HRQoL). This study aimed to investigate HRQoL among PAD patients in Hungary using the validated Hungarian version of the PADQoL questionnaire. Patients with symptomatic PAD were consecutively recruited from the Department of Angiology, Clinical Center, University of Pécs, Hungary.

Experience and Attitude of Colorectal Screening Pilot Program Participants Regarding Screening and Screening Programs in Hungary.

Background: In 2015, in Csongrád County (Hungary), a general practitioner based colorectal screening model program was implemented by the financial support of the European Union. Our aim was to evaluate the indicators of screening program and to analyze the experiences and attitude of participants of colorectal screening pilot program.

Methods: The colon cancer screening pilot programme was carried out in 2015 involving an average-risk population aged 50-69 in Csongrád county, Hungary (invited 22 130 persons).

Sense of Coherence and Self-Rated Aggression of Adolescents during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic, with a Focus on the Effects of Animal Assisted Activities.

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused extreme deviations from everyday life. The aim of this study was to investigate how these deviations affected adolescents' sense of coherence and their level of aggression, and whether this was influenced by their relationship with animals, especially horses. In two random samples of students from vocational schools in Hungary, taken in June 2018 and June 2020 (n1 = 525, n2 = 412), separate groups were drawn from those who had regularly engaged in equine-assisted activities (ES) and those who had not (OS) before the pandemic.

[Participation indicators of colorectal screenings in Hungary between 2008-2021].

The aim of our study is to analyse the participation indicators of colorectal cancer screening between 2008-2021. Data derived from the nationwide financing database of the Hungarian National Health Insurance Fund Management. We analysed both diagnostic and screening examinations.

[Participation indicators of organized mammography screening in Hungary between 2012-2021].

The aim of our study is to analyze the participation indicators of screening rounds Nr. 6-10 (2012-2021) of the organized nationwide mammography screening program. Data derived from the nationwide financing database of the Hungarian National Health Insurance Fund Management and covered the period 2012-2021.

[Participation indicators of organized cervical cancer screening in Hungary].

The aim of this study was to determine the percentage of women in Hungary who underwent gynecological cytological examinations either as part of a screening test or diagnostic examinations. Data derived from the nationwide financing database of the Hungarian National Health Insurance Fund Management and covered the period 2008-2021. We analyzed both diagnostic and screening cytological tests.

Changes in the Number of Physicians and Hospital Bed Capacity in Europe.

Objectives: Our aim was to examine the numbers of practicing physicians and total numbers of hospital beds in European Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries.

Methods: Data analyzed were derived from the "Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Health Statistics 2020" database between 1980 and 2018. The selected countries were compared according to the type of healthcare system and geographical location by parametric and nonparametric tests.

Epidemiology of Peripheral Artery Disease: Narrative Review.

Past decades have witnessed a major epidemiologic transition with a considerable increase in the disease burden associated with atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), with low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) experiencing substantial increase in CVDs. As the global population is aging and peripheral artery disease (PAD) is strongly age-related, it is estimated to become increasingly prevalent in the future. PAD shares risk factors with coronary and cerebrovascular risk factors, particularly diabetes mellitus and smoking, and is associated with significant CVD morbidity and mortality.

[Assessing the epidemiological disease burden and health insurance treatment cost of diabetic polyneuropathy based on health insurance claims data].

Unlabelled: Összefoglaló. Bevezetés: Az idegrendszeri károsodás az egyik leggyakrabban kialakuló komplikáció a cukorbetegek körében, mely az egyénnek és a finanszírozónak is jelentős terhet jelent. Célkitűzés: Elemzésünk célja volt a diabeteses polyneuropathia okozta epidemiológiai és egészségbiztosítási betegségteher elemzése.

[Annual epidemiological and health insurance burden of cervical cancer in Hungary].

Unlabelled: Összefoglaló. Bevezetés: A méhnyakdaganatok kérdése kiemelten fontos, megoldatlan népegészségügyi probléma. A betegség terhe magas, ami elsősorban az alacsony és közepes jövedelmű országokban élőknél jelentkezik.

[Epidemiological disease burden and annual health insurance treatment cost of colorectal cancer in Hungary].

Unlabelled: Összefoglaló. Bevezetés: Magyarországon a vastag- és a végbéldaganat mindkét nem esetében a harmadik leggyakoribb daganatos megbetegedés és a második leggyakoribb halálok. Célkitűzés: Elemzésünk célja volt a vastag- és végbéldaganat okozta éves epidemiológiai és egészségbiztosítási betegségteher meghatározása Magyarországon.

[Health behavior of Hungarian prostate cancer patients].

Unlabelled: Összefoglaló. Bevezetés: A férfiakat érintő egyik leggyakoribb malignus ráktípus a prosztatarák. A Nemzeti Rákregiszter adatai alapján hazánkban évente több mint 4600 új eset kerül diagnosztizálásra.

Health behavior, sleep quality and subjective health status among Hungarian nurses working varying shifts.

Background: Distinctly, shift work is burdensome for nurses and may lead to health problems.

Objective: The purpose of the study was to examine the nursing shift system genres and to analyze the potentially debilitating effects upon sleep quality and the subjective state of physical and mental health when considering varying shift schedules.

Methods: The first cross-sectional study (n = 639) was performed at the Clinical Center at the University of Pécs, and throughout various hospitals in the South-Danubian Region.

[Hungarian adaptation of the Peripheral Artery Disease Quality of Life questionnaire].

Unlabelled: Összefoglaló. Bevezetés: A perifériás verőérbetegség napjaink egyik világméretű népegészségügyi problémája, több mint 200 millió embert érint világszerte. A Peripheral Artery Disease Quality of Life (PADQOL) kérdőívet azzal a céllal fejlesztették ki, hogy a betegség fizikai tünetein kívül annak szubjektív betegségterhét, pszichoszociális és emocionális hatásait is vizsgálja.

Insights Gained in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Follow-Up Survey of a Recreational Training Program, Focusing on Sense of Coherence and Sleep Quality.

The original aim of this study was a follow-up assessment of a recreational program running for six months (September 2019-February 2020) within controlled conditions. Following the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, the survey acquired a new goal: how do the subjects of the follow-up sampling experience this severe stress situation, and in this experience, what role does physical activity and a salutogenetic sense of coherence play. Austrian women ( = 53) took part in the training program, whose physical condition was assessed before the start of the program, then reassessed after three months and after six months; the organizers also had them fill out the sense of coherence questionnaire (SOC) as well as the Regensburger insomnia scale.

[Quality and performance indicators of colorectal cancer screening pilot program in Csongrád County, Hungary].

Colorectal cancer is a major social and economic burden for developed countries. Our analysis aimed to evaluate the quality and performance indicators of colorectal cancer screening pilot program. The colon cancer screening pilot program was carried out in 2015 involving an average-risk population aged 50-69 in Csongrád county, Hungary.

[Quality and performance indicators of the pilot program for cervical cancer screening by health visitors].

The aim of our analysis was the assessment of the qualitative and performance indicators of a pilot program for health visitors' cervical cancer screening. The analysis involved the data from the Communication module of the Office of the National Chief Medical Officer. In the examined period (October, 2013 - September, 2015) the participation indicators of women aged 25-65, the prevalence rates of human papillomavirus and the cervical intraepithelial neoplasia were determined.

[Assessment of the pilot program for cervical cancer screening by health visitors].

Introduction: Within the tender (6.1.3.

[Work schedules in the Hungarian health care system and the sleep quality of nurses].

Introduction: One way of ensuring the continuity of health care is the shift work, which is burdensome and it can lead to sleep disturbances.

Aim: The aim of the study was to measure the typical Hungarian nursing shift systems in hospitals, to analyse the causes of irregular work schedules, and to compare the sleep quality of nurses in different work schedules.

Method: 236 head nurses filled out the national online survey, and 217 nurses in clinics of the University of Pécs filled the Hungarian version of Bergen Shift Work Sleep Questionnaire.