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Nurse-physician collaboration and associations with perceived autonomy in Cypriot critical care nurses
(John Wiley & Sons, 2015-01)Background and aims: Increased nurse-physician collaboration is a factor in improved patient outcomes. Limited autonomy of nurses has been proposed as a barrier to collaboration. This study aims to explore nurse-physician ...
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On the simplicity of the curve hypotheses
(Springer, 1992)Popper's theory of simplicity has three great merits advocating it: it has intuitive appeal, it proposes a clear criterion for judging the relative simplicity of rival hypotheses, and, finally, it answers the question ...
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“An Ongoing Struggle With the Self and Illness”: Α Meta-Synthesis of the Studies of the Lived Experience of Severe Mental Illness
(Elsevier, 2015)The diverse experiences of severely mentally ill persons, most of the times, have not been taken into account, or integrated to the treatment procedures. This meta-synthesis aimed to examine what is like to live with severe ...
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An Ongoing Struggle With the Self and Illness”: Α Meta-Synthesis of the Studies of the Lived Experience of Severe Mental Illness
(Elsevier, 2015)The diverse experiences of severely mentally ill persons, most of the times, have not been taken into account, or integrated to the treatment procedures. This meta-synthesis aimed to examine what is like to live with severe ...
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Openness to help seeking for mental illness among Greek-Cypriots
(Health Promotion International, 2017-08-14)The aim of this study was to test a model of people’s willingness to seek help for mental illness whether currently diagnosed or not. A cross-sectional design was used to test this model in a nonclinical convenience sample ...
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Organizational culture in the primary healthcare setting of Cyprus
(BMC Health Services Research, 2013)Background: The concept of organizational culture is important in understanding the behaviour of individuals in organizations as they manage external demands and internal social changes. Cyprus healthcare system is ...
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Original sin according to the orthodox tradition.
(Αρμός, 2009)Teaching on the subject of original sin, as it was developed mostly by the Greek Fathers in the Orthodox tradition, noticeably differs to the equivalent teaching of the Latin Fathers and especially to that of St. Augustine. ...
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Orthodoxy and heresy of the Non-Chalcedonians according to St. John Damascene
(2010)The progress of the Theological Dialogue between the Orthodox Church and the non-Chalcedonian Churches of the East, although it has raised the keen interest and admiration even of Western theologians1, nonetheless has ...
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Orthodoxy and Inter-religious Dialogue
(2007)The great problems, persecutions and dangers that missionaries and the faithful have been facing for centuries from the fanatical followers of traditional religions, mainly in Asia and Africa, have been compounded over ...
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Overview of depression: epidemiology and implications for community nursing practice
(Mark Allen Healthcare, 2011)Depressive disorders are among the most common psychological conditions currently affecting individuals living in the Westernized world. Yet, available data indicate that fewer than one third of adults with depression ...
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Person perception, prejudice, and hostility as influenced by the use of persuasion: A cross-cultural study.
(University of South Alabama, 2002)The purpose of this study was to assess whether it is possible to alter the perception of similarity vs. uniqueness of people towards others and if the powerful embedded constructs of prejudice and aggression could be ...
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The political economy of the Greek health sector and the implications of the economic crisis
(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2021-03-09)The manifestation of the world economic crisis at 2007 and its consequences have brought the European economy and, more specifically, the Greek economy in front of new challenges for adjustment to the new era. In 2010, ...
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Political involvement and socio-moral reasoning: testing Emler's interpretation
(Wiley, 1989)n previous research on the relationships between socio-moral reasoning and political orientation, the evolving capacities in the moral-cognitive realm have been considered as the framework for the formation of different ...
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Polymorphous heterogeneity and episodes of violence in school community: educational implications for building a democratic school
(2020)The present article is an attempt to shed light on a plethora of research studies concerning bullying and acts of violence within school settings. Furthermore, a basic aim of the chapter is to present different facets of ...
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Positive Emotions and Addiction
(The International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, 2014-07)Despite the clinical observations that indicate a possible connection between emotions, addictive behavior and treatment, there is not sufficient research on the role of positive emotions in addiction and addiction treatment. ...
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Positive Emotions and Addiction
(International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, 2015)Despite the clinical observations that indicate a possible connection between emotions, addictive behavior and treatment, there is not sufficient research on the role of positive emotions in addiction and addiction treatment. ...
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Postformal and Postconventional Reasoning in Educationally Advanced Adults
(Taylor & Francis, 1989)The structural correspondence between postconventional sociomoral reasoning and postformal operational skills was examined to determine whether Stage 5 moral reasoning can be considered a hard stage in the Piagetian sense, ...
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Predictive factors of disordered eating and body image satisfaction in Cyprus
(2015-05)Objective: This study aimed to assesspossible relationships and predictor varia-bles between disordered eating attitudesand behaviors, the internalization of thethin ideal construct, body image satisfac-tion, body image ...
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Pressure area care: An exploration of Greek nurses’ knowledge and practice
(Blackwell Science, 2002-11)BACKGROUND: Despite a plethora of information on the prevention of pressure sores, they remain a significant problem in both hospital and community settings. The need to reduce the incidence of pressure sores has been well ...
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Prevalence and Characteristics of Disordered Eating Adolescents in Cyprus: The Influence of Body Image, Situational Dysphoria, Self-Esteem, and the Media
(The European Journal of Counselling Psychology, 2019)The purpose of the current study was threefold: a) to collect a very large representative sample of adolescents and assess for their levels of disordered eating behaviors; b) to describe the characteristics of adolescents ...
