On 19th November our PhD students Veronika Pacutova and Viktoryia Karchynskaya met with Sofie Koch, who is PhD student in SDU and one of the authors of the article “Exploring implementation of a nationwide requirement to increase physical activity in the curriculum in Danish public schools: a mixed methods study” (https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-12152-2). They discussed physical activity among Danish and Slovak adolescents.
Veronika Pacutova and Viktoryia Karchynskaya embraced the possibility from Erasmus+ program for Student Mobility for Traineeships. Currently they are visiting the University of Southern Denmark in Odense (SDU). They have plans to meet various professionals focusing on similar topics of their research from Odense, Esbjerg and Copenhagen.
On 18th November, they firstly personally met their supervisor from SDU, who is associate professor Gabriel Gulis with his focus on health promotion (https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaa127).
Our research team realised a cross-sectional survey focused on mental health challenges of health care workers during first and second wave of coronavirus pandemic in Slovakia. Some preliminary findings were selected and visualized by our colleague Veronika Pacutova.
Link on animation: https://youtu.be/DU-gpsqvLGg
Frontline health care workers are exposed to not only physical but also mental strain during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although they are willing to go beyond their own strength in a given situation, if they remain alone, some of them will withdraw. According to professor Reinhard Strametz, two-thirds of secondary victims of a pandemic respond dysfunctionally to an adverse event. Prof. Andrea Madarasova Gecková was a guest of podcast organized by MediPravnik.
Link on podcast: https://www.podbean.com/pu/pbblog-28pst-6d8aba
What does a health care professional experience after a patient’s health is revealed? As a society, are we able to perceive the complexity of the situation in which the health care provider finds himself? How to approach it with respect and understanding?
These questions were answered and you can listen to them in the following podcast here organized by Chamber of Medical Law – Medius.
Guests:
JUDr. Marika Barabas Pavlíková
JUDr. Ivan Humeník, PhD
MUDr. Branislav Chrenka
prof. Mgr. Andrea Madarasova Geckova, PhD
PhDr. Silvia Pekarcikova, MPH, MHA
Moderator: Zuzana Kovačič Hanzelová
This time we visited an elementary school in Prešov in collaboration with the team from University of Prešov. The usual data collection was accompanied by the objective measures. We are confident to continue the data collection despite the current deteriorating epidemiological situation.
Members of the Slovakia team attended online meetings of the Autumn HBSC Meeting 2021 that took place between 3rd – 5th of November. We shared valuable information with our colleagues from other countries concerning current pilot data collection as well as the upcoming main data collection scheduled for the Spring 2022.
Around mid-November we will visit several primary schools in Kosice, Presov and the surrounding area. We believe that the data obtained will help us prepare for the main data collection, which is scheduled for the spring of next year.
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