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 Is the Next Small Big Thing in Psychology?

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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

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

FUNCTIONAL, DYSFUNCTIONAL IMPULSIVITY AND SENSATION SEEKING IN MEDICAL STAFF

Background: It is important to study impulsivity and sensation seeking in medical staff because they might shed light into the effectiveness of decision-making processes and performed responses. The aims of this study were to specify if functional impulsivity prevailed in medical staff compared to dysfunctional impulsivity; how strong the relationships between functional, dysfunctional impulsivity and sensation seeking were; furthermore, it aimed to differentiate functional and dysfunctional impulsivity, according to the size of the place where medical care was practised. Subjects and methods: A sample of 323 medical workers and 99 medical students filled in questionnaire measuring sensation seeking, functional impulsivity and dysfunctional impulsivity. Results: Sensation seeking and functional impulsivity in medical staff did not differ statistically significantly (t(421)=1.171, p=0.242), but functional impulsivity was significantly more intensive than dysfunctional impulsivity among medical personnel (t(421)=8.132, p<0.001). Sensation seeking was significantly more strongly expressed than dysfunctional impulsivity among medical specialists (t(421)=7.388, p<0.001). Correlation analysis revealed that sensation seeking in medical specialists was more strongly related to functional impulsivity than to dysfunctional impulsivity (p<0.001). The studied medical staff practicing in the capital were more prone to functional impulsivity than the medical staff practicing in towns up to 50,000 inhabitants (pTukey=0.007). Conclusions: This was the first study to reveal stronger relationships between functional impulsivity and sensation seeking in medical staff than between dysfunctional impulsivity and sensation seeking which were interpreted as an influencing factor of the quality of decision-making responses. Functional impulsivity prevailed over dysfunctional impulsivity in medical occupations, so decision-making in medical care should be more effective and timelier than inappropriate, especially for medical personnel working in the capital