Telemedicine consultations in obstetrics and gynecology — a population based study in Polishspeaking women

Objectives: Telemedicine is no longer in the realm of the future. It has already become an aspect of modern medicine. A number of countries across the world have successfully introduced telemedicine systems, which allows patients access to general healthcare and specialist consultations regardless of the distance separating patients from physicians. We aimed to evaluate the use of a telemedicine system by Polish-speaking women for the purpose of gynecological and obstetric consultations.Material and methods: Our study used a telemedicine system operated by a healthcare entity offering healthcare services. We prospectively obtained data from Polish-speaking patients (residing all over the world) who underwent teleconsultations in gynecology or obstetrics in the period between Dec. 1, 2016, and Mar. 31, 2018.Results: A total of 244 telemedicine consultations in 185 female patients were evaluated. These consultations were overwhelmingly for gynecological cases (76%). Obstetric consultations, which constituted only 24% of the total number of consultations, involved predominantly pathologies of pregnancy. The mean age of patients who used the telemedicine system was 27 years. Ten percent of the study subjects resided in a country other than Poland at the time of their consultation. Only one patient required an urgent referral for an in-person consultation at an emergency department.Conclusions: Telemedicine consultations not only offer an easier access to the relatively difficult to obtain consultationswith a specialist in the field of gynecology and obstetrics but may also be an alternative to conventional doctors’ appointments, chiefly for those women who currently reside abroad or for those who seek an immediate gynecological consultation

Preservation of dangerous forensic samples of evidence with the use of mobile robotic system

The richest source of information about crime and criminals is the place of the incident. From the point of view of forensics the examination of the crime scene is the primary activity of inquiry and it is the core action at the scene. However, there are scenes in which conditions threaten the health and lives of investigators, e.g. an illegal laboratory of controlled substances. However, there is a need to disclose, transport and store the obtained evidence, which is a source of danger, for the purposes of criminal proceedings. Police Academy in Szczytno (Poland) conducts a research project, which aims at the development of innovative solutions and technology that will enable proper and effective protection, transport, storage and disposal of such hazardous material evidence. A solution that would eliminate these risks is a robotic system for taking samples (e.g. samples of reaction mixtures). With a view to safety of SOCOs the proposed solution is of major importance

Skrócona wersja Skali Postaw Wobec Pieniędzy SPP-25. Dobór pozycji i walidacja narzędzia

Money Attitude Questionnaire is an original, Polish scale measuring cognitive, emotional and behavioral aspects of attitudes towards money. Because of its considerable length, in this paper I present a new, short version of this scale. The items were selected on the basis of factor loading and discrimination coefficients, based on the data obtained from an adult sample (N = 1447). Internal validity of the short scale was established with confirmatory factor analyses conducted on two representative samples. The comparison between original and short MAQ scales demonstrated that the short version revealed psychometric characteristics and correlation with other scales similar to full version. Moreover, using short scale to measure money attitudes as moderator in experimental study led to better results than using full scale. To conclude, short MAQ scale seems to be a useful tool to measure individual differences revealing money attitudes, and might be a useful tool for future research on social and economic behavior

Czy dla każdego większa ilość pieniędzy oznacza lepszą sytuację finansową? Postawy wobec pieniędzy a spostrzeganie własnego dochodu

The aim of this paper is to examine the influence of money attitude on the per- ception of own financial standing. The typological approach to attitudes towards money was used, thus it concentrates on two instrumental (reflective managers and detached hedonists) and two symbolic attitudes (anxious admirers and money repel- lers). People presenting various money attitudes differs in terms of their perception of wealth, and in each group the relation between income and the perception of one’s financial standing is of different character

Różnice indywidualne jako determinanty postaw wobec pieniędzy

The field of the research is psychology of money. The main aims were to identify the structure of money attitudes, to identify the specific types of money attitudes, and to indicate its determinants in the scope of individual differences (i.e. temperament, personality and temporal orientation). The statistical analysis consisted on structural equation modelling and cluster analysis. First of all, original polish money attitudes scale was constructed and validated, its structure was tested in the group of n=1792. Then, four types of money attitudes were found. Finally, money attitudes are weakly influences by temperamental features (FCB-TI, n=612), moderately – by personality features (NEO-FFI; n=605). Temporal orientation has the strongest influence on money attitudes (AION-2000; n=722)

Skrócona wersja Skali Postaw Wobec Pieniędzy SPP-25. Dobór pozycji i walidacja narzędzia

Money Attitude Questionnaire is an original, Polish scale measuring cognitive, emotional and behavioral aspects of attitudes towards money. Because of its considerable length, in this paper I present a new, short version of this scale. The items were selected on the basis of factor loading and discrimination coefficients, based on the data obtained from an adult sample (N = 1447). Internal validity of the short scale was established with confirmatory factor analyses conducted on two representative samples. The comparison between original and short MAQ scales demonstrated that the short version revealed psychometric characteristics and correlation with other scales similar to full version. Moreover, using short scale to measure money attitudes as moderator in experimental study led to better results than using full scale. To conclude, short MAQ scale seems to be a useful tool to measure individual differences revealing money attitudes, and might be a useful tool for future research on social and economic behavior

Skala Postaw Wobec Pieniędzy SPP: Konstrukcja i walidacja narzędzia pomiarowego

Money attitudes are defined as relatively stable disposition to certain emotio- nal reactions to money, together with accompanying evaluations, opinions, and potentials ascribed to money and dispositions to certain financial behavior. This paper presents a new Polish scale to measure money attitudes. SPP Money Attitu- des Questionnaire consists of 58 items grouped in seven dimensions: control and planning, power, anxiety, debt aversion, occasion seeking, root of the evil, and pre- ference for cash. To verify the structure of the scale exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis was used. Validation studies were conducted on several heterogenic samples (taken together, N = 3375). Their results prove satisfactory reliability of the new scale, evaluated as internal consistency and test-retest reliability, and its good internal and external validity

Czy dla każdego większa ilość pieniędzy oznacza lepszą sytuację finansową? Postawy wobec pieniędzy a spostrzeganie własnego dochodu

The aim of this paper is to examine the influence of money attitude on the per- ception of own financial standing. The typological approach to attitudes towards money was used, thus it concentrates on two instrumental (reflective managers and detached hedonists) and two symbolic attitudes (anxious admirers and money repel- lers). People presenting various money attitudes differs in terms of their perception of wealth, and in each group the relation between income and the perception of one’s financial standing is of different character

Psychologiczne skutki aktywacji idei pieniędzy a obdarowywanie bliskich

The aim of this paper was to verify if reminders of money influence the tendency to spend one’s resources on kin and friends. Previous research on the mere exposure to money concentrated only on behaviors directed at anonymous partners. However, in such situation the reciprocity rule is of less importance than when behavior is directed at known partners, especially close friends and relatives. This paper presents three experiments showing that subtle reminders of money decrease the declared value of birthday gift or best friend (study 1 and 3) as well as value Christmas gifts (Study 2). Moreover, counting coins instead of candies increased the expectation demands for the value of birthday present got from the very best friend (Study 3). To conclude, the symbolic power of money is very strong, as it decreases the propensity to share own resource with friends and relatives, even if it means behaving against social rules regulating such situation. Money bolsters concentration on own goals, motivates to keep resources that are inevitable to reach those goals, and changes the perception of social world from community mode to market-pricing mode

Skala Postaw Wobec Pieniędzy SPP: Konstrukcja i walidacja narzędzia pomiarowego

Money attitudes are defined as relatively stable disposition to certain emotio- nal reactions to money, together with accompanying evaluations, opinions, and potentials ascribed to money and dispositions to certain financial behavior. This paper presents a new Polish scale to measure money attitudes. SPP Money Attitu- des Questionnaire consists of 58 items grouped in seven dimensions: control and planning, power, anxiety, debt aversion, occasion seeking, root of the evil, and pre- ference for cash. To verify the structure of the scale exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis was used. Validation studies were conducted on several heterogenic samples (taken together, N = 3375). Their results prove satisfactory reliability of the new scale, evaluated as internal consistency and test-retest reliability, and its good internal and external validity