Browsing by Subject "Psychological"

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Anxiety, depression and defense mechanisms associated with treatment decisional preferences and quality of life in non-metastatic breast cancer: A 1-year prospective study

Hyphantis, T.; Almyroudi, A.; Paika, V.; Degner, L. F.; Carvalho, A. F.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2013)

Objective: Treatment decisional preferences impact breast cancer patients' health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and may relate to psychological variables, although many aspects of this relationship remain unknown. This ...

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Big events in Greece and HIV infection among people who inject drugs

Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Sypsa, V.; Bonovas, Stefanos; Paraskeva, D.; Malliori-Minerva, Melpomeni; Hatzakis, A.; Friedman, Samuel R. (2015)

Big Events are processes like macroeconomic transitions that have lowered social well-being in various settings in the past. Greece has been hit by the global crisis and experienced an HIV outbreak among people who inject ...

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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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Explaining Differences in Subjective Well-Being Across 33 Nations Using Multilevel Models: Universal Personality, Cultural Relativity, and National Income

Cheng, Cecilia; Cheung, Mike W.-L.; Montasem, Alex; Panayiotou, Alexia (2016)

This multinational study simultaneously tested three prominent hypotheses–universal disposition, cultural relativity, and livability–that explained differences in subjective well-being across nations. We performed multilevel ...

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Personality variables are associated with colorectal cancer patients' quality of life independent of psychological distress and disease severity

Paika, V.; Almyroudi, A.; Tomenson, B.; Creed, F.; Kampletsas, E. O.; Siafaka, V.; Gkika, S.; Mavreas, V.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Hyphantis, T. (2010)

Objective: The aim of the present study was to test whether psychological distress and personality variables are independently associated with health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in colorectal cancer patients, after ...

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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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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 ...

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Stress management can facilitate weight loss in Greek overweight and obese women: A pilot study

Christaki, Eirini; Kokkinos, A.; Costarelli, V.; Alexopoulos, E. C.; Chrousos, George P.; Darviri, C. (2013)

Background: Stress and negative emotions have been shown to be critical factors in inducing overeating as a form of maladaptive coping in obese people. Methods: The present study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of an 8-week ...