Browsing by Subject "Health status"

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Does psychological distress vary between younger and older adults in health and disease?

Goulia, P.; Papadimitriou, I.; Machado, M. O.; Mantas, C.; Pappa, C.; Tsianos, Epameinondas; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Drosos, Alexandros A.; Carvalho, A. F.; Hyphantis, T. (2012)

Objective: The effect of age on psychological distress remains controversial and it is unclear how a chronic medical illness influences this association. We aimed to compare the level of psychological distress between ...

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High-burden epidemics in Greece in the era of economic crisis. Early signs of a public health tragedy

Bonovas, Stefanos; Nikolopoulos, Georgios K. (2012)

Background. Economic hardships have unleashed epidemics of infectious diseases in many countries in the past. In the era of the current financial crisis in Greece, it is interesting to assess the preliminary evidence ...

Working Paper

International medical R&D spillovers

Papageorgiou, Chris; Savvides, Andreas; Zachariadis, Marios (2004)

Does medical technology originating in countries close to the technology frontier have a significant impact on health outcomes in countries distant from this frontier? This paper considers a framework where lagging countries ...

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Network characteristics of people who inject drugs within a new HIV epidemic following austerity in Athens, Greece

Tsang, M. A.; Schneider, J. A.; Sypsa, V.; Schumm, P.; Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Paraskeva, D.; Friedman, Samuel R.; Malliori-Minerva, Melpomeni; Hatzakis, A. (2015)

Background: Greece experienced an unprecedented increase in HIV cases among drug injectors in 2011 after economic crisis. Network-level factors are increasingly understood to drive HIV transmission in emerging epidemics. ...

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Personality variables as predictors of early non-metastatic colorectal cancer patients' psychological distress and health-related quality of life: A one-year prospective study

Hyphantis, T.; Paika, V.; Almyroudi, A.; Kampletsas, E. O.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2011)

Objective: We aimed to assess the course of early non-metastatic colorectal cancer patients' psychological distress and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and to identify relevant clinical and psychological predictors ...

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Psychiatric manifestations, personality traits and health-related quality of life in cancer of unknown primary site

Hyphantis, T.; Papadimitriou, I.; Petrakis, Dimitrios; Fountzilas, George; Repana, D.; Assimakopoulos, K.; Carvalho, A. F.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2013)

Objective Psychiatric manifestations and personality traits are known to influence cancer patients. We aimed to assess psychological distress symptoms, psychosocial factors and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in ...

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Psychosocial predictors of health outcomes in colorectal cancer: A comprehensive review

Sales, P. M. G.; Carvalho, A. F.; McIntyre, R. S.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Hyphantis, T. (2014)

Background: A diagnosis of colorectal cancer (CRC) and its long-term treatment may lead to significant psychological distress and impaired health-related quality of life (HRQoL) for a significant proportion of patients. ...

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Randomised trials comparing chemotherapy regimens for advanced non-small cell lung cancer: Biases and evolution over time

Ioannidis, J. P. A.; Polycarpou, A.; Ntais, C.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2003)

We systematically evaluated the evidence from randomised trials comparing various chemotherapy regimens for advanced non-small cell lung cancer. Across 254 eligible trials (42 661 patients), no regimens were compared in ...

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Randomized comparison of early versus late hyperfractionated thoracic irradiation concurrently with chemotherapy in limited disease small-cell lung cancer: A randomized phase II study of the Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG)

Skarlos, Dimosthenis V.; Samantas, E.; Briassoulis, E. Ch; Panoussaki, E.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Kalofonos, H. P.; Kardamakis, D.; Tsiakopoulos, E.; Kosmidis, Paraskevas A.; Tsavdaridis, D.; Tzitzikas, J.; Tsekeris, P.; Kouvatseas, G.; Zamboglou, N.; Fountzilas, George (2001)

Background: Concurrent platinum-etoposide chemotherapy given in combination with hyperfractionated thoracic radiation therapy (HTRT) in limited disease (LD) small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is associated with a high response ...

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Sense of Coherence and Defense Style Predict Sleep Difficulties in Early Non-metastatic Colorectal Cancer

Hyphantis, T.; Goulia, P.; Zerdes, I.; Solomou, S.; Andreoulakis, E.; Carvalho, A. F.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2016)

Background: Sleep disturbances are common in cancer patients, but little is known about the complex interplay between the background psychological profile, coping with health stressors capacities and psychological distress ...