A5047072424- Cancer survivorship and care
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Pain Management and Opioid Use
- Family Support in Illness
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Bone health and treatments
- Patient Dignity and Privacy
- Cancer-related cognitive impairment studies
- Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Management of metastatic bone disease
- Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies
- Nausea and vomiting management
- Sleep and related disorders
- Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
- Anesthesia and Pain Management
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
- Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry and Applications
- Cancer, Stress, Anesthesia, and Immune Response
- Pathogenesis and Treatment of Hiccups
- Ethics in medical practice
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
2016-2025
Alexandra Hospital
2024
University General Hospital Attikon
2008-2024
Aretaeio Hospital
2001-2024
Social Welfare Department
2024
Hellenic Airforce General Hospital
2024
University of West Attica
2024
Panteion University
2004-2021
Pain Relief and Palliative Care Society
2002-2012
Arete (United Kingdom)
2009
In 1986, the European Organization for Research and Treatment (EORTC) initiated a research program to develop an integrated, modular approach evaluating quality of life patients participating in international clinical trials. The questionnaire was designed measure cancer patients' physical, psychological social functions. is composed 5 multiitem scales (physical, role, social, emotional cognitive functioning) 9 single items (pain, fatigue, financial impact, appetite loss, nausea/vomiting,...
Cancer patients have been reported to complain about poor quality of sleep. This study evaluated the sleep in this group, utilizing demographic data and clinical features cancers as assessment criteria. A secondary aim was evaluate correlation between self-rated questionnaire for with other instruments used measuring pain life.A total 102 stage IV cancer completed were subsequently followed up 10 months. Self-rated questionnaires administered evaluation (PSQI), life Medical Outcomes Study...
<i>Objective</i>: The Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) is a pain assessment tool. It has been translated into and validated in several languages. purpose of this study was the translation validation BPI Greek. Moreover, we wanted to detect cultural social differences, if any, interference patients’ lives. <i>Methods</i>: inventory took place at Areteion Hospital. final sample consisted 220 cancer patients (123 males, 97 females, age range 21–87 years, mean 61.3). Primary...
Truth-telling to cancer patients is controversial. The aim of the present study was investigate oncologists', radiotherapists', and palliative care specialists' attitudes truth-telling practices in Greece. A postal survey a representative sample 300 oncologists, radiotherapists, specialists made February 1993. total 228 doctors completed returned questionnaires. It appears that withholding truth from remains very common
The experience of posttraumatic growth following breast cancer, its association with psychological distress and the predictive value distress, sociodemographic clinical characteristics cancer patients in their personal growth.The Posttraumatic Growth Inventory Greek version Hospital Depression Anxiety Scale (G-HADS) were administered to 100 patients. Sociodemographic recorded.The analysis showed that significant associations found between PTGI-Total patients' age (p=0.001), being married...
In split-liver transplantation, the entire portal flow is redirected through relatively small-for-size grafts. It has been postulated that excessive blood leads to graft injury. order elucidate mechanisms of this injury, we studied hemodynamic interactions between vein- and hepatic artery in an experimental model pigs. Six whole pig liver grafts were implanted Group 1 ( n=6) six split into right left transplanted Groups 2 3 n=6), respectively. The graft-to-recipient volume ratio was 1:1, 2:3...
The growing interest in the psychological distress and multidimensionality of pain patients with cancer has been major reason for conduction this study. aims were to evaluate advanced impact severity interference dimensions on anxiety depression. One hundred twenty surveyed at a palliative care unit Athens, Greece. Greek versions Hospital Anxiety Depression (G-HAD) scale Brief Pain Inventory administered. Information concerning patients' treatment received was acquired from medical records,...
To investigate whether the advanced cancer patients' caregivers' depression and hopelessness are affected by demographic clinical characteristics sociodemographic variables. Moreover, relation between was assessed. One hundred five patients with receiving palliative care 96 caregivers were enrolled in study. The their completed Beck Depression Inventory Hopelessness Scale while researchers recorded data on characteristics, disease status, treatment regimen. analysis showed that significant...
To validate the Greek version of Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)-21 items in advanced cancer patents attending a palliative care unit. The scale was translated with forward-backward procedure into Greek. It administered twice, 1-week interval, to 105 patients cancer. also completed Hospital Anxiety and (HAD) scale, while researchers recorded data on demographic characteristics, disease status treatment regimen. BDI had overall Cronbach's alpha 0.906. most significant correlations were found...
The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between sleep quality, pain, psychological distress, cognitive status and post-traumatic experience in advanced cancer patients. Participants were 82 patients referred a palliative care unit for control pain other symptoms. A variety assessment tools used examine prevalence disturbance, severity depression, hopelessness, function quality life. Using Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) 96% 'poor sleepers'. Statistically significant...