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The Effects of Distraction on Preoperative Anxiety in Preschool and School-Age Children: A Literature Review 分心对学龄前和学龄儿童术前焦虑的影响:文献综述

Athens Journal of Health and Medical Sciences Pub Date : 2022-01-27 DOI: 10.30958/ajhms.9-1-4

S. Abdul Wahid, S. Johncy, S. Abbas., Mikyoung Lee

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The Religious Schizophrenic: Why Spirituality is Crucial for Recovery 宗教精神分裂症:为什么灵性对康复至关重要

Athens Journal of Health and Medical Sciences Pub Date : 2021-06-24 DOI: 10.30958/ajhms.8-3-2

Emily Sweet

{"title":"The Religious Schizophrenic: Why Spirituality is Crucial for Recovery","authors":"Emily Sweet","doi":"10.30958/ajhms.8-3-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30958/ajhms.8-3-2","url":null,"abstract":"Up to 80% of schizophrenic patients use religion to cope with their illness. These positive spiritual coping strategies are the primary predictor of mental wellness in patients with schizophrenia. Yet, most medical professionals have no religious training and are often ill-equipped to guide their schizophrenic patients in spiritual matters. Typically, religious institutions and modern medicine are not associated together, but what happens when mental health professionals lack the training to assist 80% of their schizophrenic patients who use religion as a coping strategy? Schizophrenic patients whose beliefs are not respected have a higher rate of suicide, face increased stigma and report a lower overall quality of life. Such patients are more likely to decline mentally and drop out of treatment. Some scholars, psychologists and philosophers are now arguing that ignoring the connection between religion and mental wellness is unethical because practitioners are failing to take patient diversity into account. This paper will attempt to answer the following questions: In an increasingly diverse world, is it the responsibility of mental health professionals to learn about their patients’ religious beliefs, especially when their beliefs are so closely intertwined with their chances at successfully managing their illness, such as the case with schizophrenics? Why is it a good idea to consider combining religion and healthcare? Should the increase in diverse patients require additional training for mental health professionals? Is it unethical for a mental health care professional to be ignorant of diverse cultures and religions? What are the dangers of allowing medical professionals, who largely have no training in religious affairs, to guide mentally ill patients? What are the potential solutions for this problem? Which solutions are more effective and why? Are the current practiced healthcare models, which combine medicine and religion, effective? Keywords: schizophrenia, religion, treatment, therapy, psychosis, stigma","PeriodicalId":196877,"journal":{"name":"Athens Journal of Health and Medical Sciences","volume":"164 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126664606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Deaths due to COVID-19, Lockdowns, Vaccinations and Weather Temperatures: The Case of Greece COVID-19导致的死亡、封锁、疫苗接种和天气温度:以希腊为例

Athens Journal of Health and Medical Sciences Pub Date : 2021-06-24 DOI: 10.30958/ajhms.8-3-4

G. Papanikos

引用次数: 5

Pertinence of Predictive Models as Regards the Behavior of Observed Biological and Artificial Phenomena 预测模型对观察到的生物和人工现象的行为的相关性

Athens Journal of Health and Medical Sciences Pub Date : 2021-06-24 DOI: 10.30958/ajhms.8-3-3

A. Razek

{"title":"Pertinence of Predictive Models as Regards the Behavior of Observed Biological and Artificial Phenomena","authors":"A. Razek","doi":"10.30958/ajhms.8-3-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30958/ajhms.8-3-3","url":null,"abstract":"In this assessment, we have made an effort of synthesis on the role of theoretical and observational investigations in the analysis of the concepts and functioning of different natural biological and artificial phenomena. In this context, we pursued the objective of examining published works relating to the behavioral prediction of phenomena associated with its observation. We have examined examples from the literature concerning phenomena with known behaviors that associated to knowledge uncertainty as well as cases concerning phenomena with unknown and changing random behaviors linked to random uncertainty. The concerned cases are relative to brain functioning in neuroscience, modern smart industrial devices, and health care predictive endemic protocols. As predictive modeling is very concerned by the problematics relative to uncertainties that depend on the degree of matching in the link prediction-observation, we investigated first how to improve the model to match better the observation. Thus, we considered the case when the observed behavior and its model are contrasting, that implies the development of revised or amended models. Then we studied the case concerning the practice of modeling for the prediction of future behaviors of a phenomenon that is well known, and owning identified behavior. For such case, we illustrated the situation of prediction matched to observation operated in two cases. These are the Bayesian Brain theory in neuroscience and the Digital Twins industrial concept. The last investigated circumstance concerns the use of modeling for the prediction of future behaviors of a phenomenon that is not well known, or owning behavior varying arbitrary. For this situation, we studied contagion infections with an unknown mutant virus where the prediction task is very complicated and would be constrained only to adjust the principal clinical observation protocol. Keywords: prediction, observation, Bayesian, neuroscience, brain functioning, mutant virus","PeriodicalId":196877,"journal":{"name":"Athens Journal of Health and Medical Sciences","volume":"428 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123274683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

The Assessment of Socio-Psychological Effects of COVID-19 on Turkish People COVID-19对土耳其人的社会心理影响评估

Athens Journal of Health and Medical Sciences Pub Date : 2020-10-06 DOI: 10.30958/ajhms.7-4-4

B. Uysal, M. Yorulmaz, M. Demirkiran, Ebrar Ulusinan

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引用次数: 1

The Manual Dexterity of Nurses and Factors that Affect It 护士手的灵巧性及其影响因素

Athens Journal of Health and Medical Sciences Pub Date : 2020-07-28 DOI: 10.30958/ajhms.7-3-2

Y. Denat, H. Kuzgun

引用次数: 5

How Patient Loyalty Affects Patient Satisfaction 患者忠诚度如何影响患者满意度

Athens Journal of Health and Medical Sciences Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI: 10.30958/ajhms.7-1-2

B. Uysal, M. Yorulmaz

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"Poverty is our Biggest Enemy": Canadian Nursing Students’ International Learning Experiences (ILEs) “贫穷是我们最大的敌人”:加拿大护理学生的国际学习经历(ILEs)

Athens Journal of Health and Medical Sciences Pub Date : 2019-09-02 DOI: 10.30958/ajhms.6-3-1

H. Ashwood-Smith, Lorelei Newton, R. Gibbs

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Supply and Demand Drug Shortage Causes: Patient-centric Business Model and its Application 供求药品短缺原因:以患者为中心的商业模式及其应用

Athens Journal of Health and Medical Sciences Pub Date : 2019-09-02 DOI: 10.30958/ajhms.6-3-4

Raimonda Bublienė, A. Burinskienė

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The Impact of an Educational Program on Enhancing Knowledge towards Drug Addiction among Health Care Providers in Saudi Arabia 教育方案对提高沙特阿拉伯卫生保健提供者对吸毒成瘾的认识的影响

Athens Journal of Health and Medical Sciences Pub Date : 2019-09-02 DOI: 10.30958/ajhms.6-3-3

Najla J. Alhraiwil, Razan A. AlYoussef, Nora K. AlShlash, S. A. Amer, N. Radwan, A. Hazmi, Walid A. Al-Shroby, Fahad Alamri

引用次数: 1