eHEALTH BEFORE AND DURING COVID-19: DOES DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMATOLOGY INFLUENCE ATTITUDES OF CAD PATIENTS, HEALTHCARE STUDENTS AND PROFESSIONALS?

Background: This study aims to clarify CAD patients’ attitudes towards telemedicine-and-telecare before and after the pandemic and to compare views with those of healthcare students and professionals (doctors), while taking into consideration the influence of depressive symptomatology. Methods: All participants completed a modified version of the Information Technology Attitude Scales for Health (ITASH), the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale-CES-D and a demographics questionnaire. Results: All three groups showed statistically significant more positive views towards eHealth in the retest condition on all questions. CAD patients held the least positive views compared to healthcare students and professionals in both time points. The majority of the participants from all three groups reported that since their initial examination they still lacked educational experience regarding eHealth. Depressive symptomatology was found not to have an influence on eHealth reports. Conclusions: eHealth plays an important role both in prevention, treatment and care, but attitudes may act as an obstacle in using them. Future research should further investigate in more depth the complex influence of additional sociocultural and/or psychological factors for the reported differences

WHAT DO GREEKS BELIEVE ABOUT ELDERS AND MENTAL CAPACITY?

Despite the plethora of studies abroad, in Greece views on individuals with intellectual disabilities and older persons with mental health problems is not a well investigated topic. The results of the present study reveal that generally acts with financial-legal implications (mainly financial decision-making capacity) are of concern to the participants, as they consider this sort of capacity the main predictor for legal (in)capacity on the whole, especially when they consider elderly patients. Participants have doubts about the appropriateness of the current assessment methods followed by forensic psychiatrists and psychologists in Greece and hope for future improvements in the field of legal capacity assessment. In addition to that participants seem to welcome any form of provided information (live lectures from conferences, videos, interviews, discussion forums and texts) from experts with an emphasis on issues for elders. No significant differences were found in the expressed views based on gender or age, but subtle differences were found according to educational level.Â

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EXPLORING HUBRIS IN PHYSICIANS: ARE THERE EMOTIONAL CORRELATES?

Are there emotional correlates of hubristic symptomatology in physicians working in state hospitals at intrapersonal and interpersonal levels? 188 physicians completed a series of questionnaires related to emotional aspects and a 5-point Likert scale examining hubris. Their patients responded to a satisfaction question. Results revealed that years of working experience and negative affect correlate negatively with hubris, while Others’ Emotion Appraisal and Regulation of Emotion correlate positively. Patients seem not to report different levels of personal satisfaction from the provided healthcare services, based on the emotional characteristics and the hubris levels of their physician. Only work experience predicted hubris self-reported symptoms

A Neglected Drama for Elders: Discrepancy Between Self-Perception and Objective Performance Regarding Financial Capacity in Patients With Cognitive Deficits

The article aims at investigating whether patients from Greece with different kinds of cognitive deficits (resulting from Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease Dementia, and Mild Cognitive Impairment) can be characterized as financially capable (based on neuropsychological assessment), and if this claimed (in)capacity is in accordance with their personal belief of (in)capacity. Results revealed that the vast majority of the mild, moderate and severe Alzheimer’s disease patients as well as patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Parkinson’s disease, who scored significantly lower than normal on a relevant financial decision-making capacity test, believed that they were capable to handle their finances. This finding is in contrast with their actual financial capacity scores and the beliefs of their family members-caregivers on this issue. Some critical questions concerning incapacity and intellectual insight are raised, and future cross-cultural investigative attempts on this issue are suggested

THE FLIGHT OF ICARUS: A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF THE EMOTIONAL CORRELATES OF HUBRIS IN GERONTOLOGICAL NURSES DURING THE SARS-COV-2 PANDEMIC

Persons in leadership positions are more likely to manifest hubristic symptomatology, the longer the person exercises power and the greater the power they exercise. No data exists for healthcare staff, such as nurses and more specifically for gerontological nurses who exercise power on their colleagues as well as older persons. This study aims to examine whether there are emotional correlates of gerontological experienced hubris when serving in a leadership position, and to investigate possible gender differences during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, a little investigated period regarding its emotional aspects on healthcare professionals. Gerontological nurses in leadership positions completed Job Affect Scale, Emotional Labour Scale, Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, Generalized Immediacy Scale, General Index of Job Satisfaction, Maslach Burnout Inventory, Wong-Law Emotional Intelligence Scale, State-Anxiety-Inventory, Perceived Cohesion Scale, and a 5-point Likert scale measuring hubristic attributes. No statistically significant differences were found between male and female nurses regarding the abovementioned classic administered emotional scales and hubris. The analyses yielded only a negative correlation between negative affect and hubris. This research provides for the first time data regarding gerontological nurses in leadership positions, suggesting that various negative and positive emotional variables do no directly relate to hubristic symptoms for this group of healthcare professionals. As hubristic behaviors and their dangerous consequences are found not to be related to abovementioned emotional variables, researchers and hospital managers should consider and focus on other indices in their attempt to prevent such phenomena

Integrative psychotherapists working with eco-anxiety: Using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) to explore their experiences

Background: Despite a recent surge in mental health research discussing the concept of eco-anxiety, very little qualitative research has been conducted investigating therapist or client experiences, or possible responses to it in psychotherapy. This research aimed to address this gap by conducting a qualitative exploration of the experience of Integrative psychotherapists experiencing and working with clients who present with eco-anxiety. Subjects and Methods: Semi-structured interviews examined the experiences of 8 Integrative psychotherapists. IPA analysis followed with the assistance of ‘Atlas.ti Web’. Results: 7 themes were identified and these themes encompassed what kind of anxiety eco-anxiety represents, what emotions co-occur with the experience of eco-anxiety, how eco-anxiety is upheld, and what responses eco-anxiety elicited in participants and in their clients. Eco-anxiety was reported as an existential anxiety that raises questions about mortality and is a response to a threat to human meaning-making as well as survival. The major emotions and feelings accompanying eco-anxiety were hopelessness, upheld by the awareness of the systemic nature of the ecological crisis, grief, both due to awareness of current losses in biodiversity and for future losses in the natural environment, anger, induced and perpetuated by political inactivity, and guilt stemming from action-value misalignment and participation in an uncaring system. Stigma was seen as worsening eco-anxiety by inducing a sense of alienation. Conclusions: Working to accept eco-anxiety as a rational response, avoid pathologizing it, and acknowledging the ecological crisis through group participation and open conversation in psychotherapy are important markers in destigmatising eco-anxiety, and fostering meaning-making and agency in clients affected by it

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