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.
The pandemic wave in Slovakia is growing and with it the burden of our healthcare system. However, the health sector has been reporting a number of other problems for a long time and it seems that their pandemic will only deepen them.
Health care workers are becoming one of the most important topics today. How are they? Are they in danger of burning out? What do the latest surveys say about this? How do those who work in covid wards and as psychologists see the situation?
All of this was discussed by invited guests in online discussion organized by association Science helps.
Link on discussion: https://youtu.be/FS5jfMzPOJw
II International Forum of the ERNST Consortium “Building a European Network for improving the resilience of the healthcare professional in stressful situations” offered lectures, experiences and round table discussions on how to design intervention programs and revision of the state of art. Shared experiences on how health professionals have been supported during the COVID-19 pandemic were presented and a roundtable of young researchers talking about their projects was organized.
Link on forum: https://www.ernstforum.com/
Ivana Skoumalova was a speaker at a roundtable discussing what goes through the minds of patients and professionals when something goes wrong?
Link on round table: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTfTFAqhgi8
Andrea Madarasová Gecková was invited to deliver experts´ views on training of health care professionals to handle difficult situations.
Link on lecture: https://youtu.be/eEO9p024AS0
Pandemic measures have been with us here since March 2020. They have significantly changed our lives, but in particular they have probably saved thousands of lives in Slovakia. What their effectiveness is, what their real implementation in society is, and what longer-term social impacts they have on us, were discussed thanks to association Science helps and prof. Andrea Madarasová Gecková was invited as a guest.
Link on discussion: https://youtu.be/RiL3kndtqiE
In cooperation with Kino Úsmev, on 12 October we organized a lecture with a discussion on unconventional medicine and medical pluralism in Slovakia. The guests were Roman Hofreiter and Ivan Souček from Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica.
If you could not attend, the lecture can be seen from the record here https://www.facebook.com/ZlepsimeZdravotnictvo/videos/2960372687612742
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