Jaroslava Kopčáková and Danielá Husárová met on 28 Septmeber with representatives of Children organisation Fénix. We continue our collaboration on health and health-related behaviour of adolescents and we are looking forward to the next productive steps ahead of us.

Our collleagues Daniela Husarova, Daniela Filakovska and Jaroslava Kopcakova atendeed a lecture on therapeutical approaches to children with emotional and behavioral problems organised by  National Enlightenment Center in Bratislava,Slovakia.

On 28th September 2021 we had an opportunity to meet with colleagues from practice providing care to children with mental health problems and to discuss it with lecturer dr. Nora Gavendova. It is important to be connected with practice while doing research. 

ERNST webinar focused on younger researchers from Eastern European countries on patient safety, second victims’ phenomenon, speaking up and open disclosure, interventions for increasing resilience of health care workers and patient safety in research was realised thanks to ERNST COST action.

Link on webinar: https://cost-ernst.eu/webinar-registration/ernst-training-school/

Prof. Andrea Madarasova Gecková deliver a lecture on speaking up and open disclosure in health care setting.

Link on lecture: https://youtu.be/orkRwjr9A5I

Veronika Pacutova join a section devoted to PhD students and present preliminary findings of our research project on health care workers experience with adverse events.

Link on lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDgYC24oiLU

In September 2021 health ministers and high-level representatives of the 53 Member States of the WHO European Region met at the 71st session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe.

In this context Behavioural and Cultural Insights unit organized a side event on health literacy in the context of behavioural and cultural insights on 16^th September 2021 at 11:00-12:30 (CEST).

The side event provided information on initiatives related to health literacy within the context of behavioural and cultural insights undertaken both in Member States and by WHO/Europe. The flyer is enclosed for more information. 

Stanislava Kováčová (on the left) and Jana Plavnická joined the part of the team working on the research area of marginalized Roma at the beginning of September.

Stanislava Kováčová will participate in the RomaREACH project and do her PhD. within our double-degree program between PJ Safarik University in Košice and Groningen University in the Netherlands. She will focus on healthy early childhood development and parenting strategies in marginalized Roma communities.

Jana Plavnická will work as a researcher on the H2020 RIVER-EU project focused on reducing inequalities in vaccine uptake in underserved communities in which we will try to identify and overcome health system barriers to HPV vaccination faced by marginalized Roma. Welcome ladies!

Our team attended from 6th to 9th of September 2021 the accredited DIPEx international training with Sue Ziebland and her team at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford in UK.

DIPEx International is an association of expert researchers conducting qualitative research into people’s personal experiences of health and illness. Our mission is to improve understanding of personal health experiences for the benefit of our communities, researchers and the health sector, including healthcare professionals and policy makers.

More information could be found on http://www.dipexinternational.org/

We are looking forward to becoming a full members of DIPEx and to start working on our first modules.

We will focus on the main topics as patient safety, adverse events and fenomenon “second victims” in healthcare provision. Do not miss the opportunity to be among the first to know more about this topic, which is still little known in Slovakia. 

– Webinar is free
– The program will last 6 hours divided in 3 days for 2 hours – The whole program will be realised online and in English. So you can join us from the comfort of where you are. – Join and/or share this webinar with other students or colleagues.

 
– Registration needed via link is here: https://cost-ernst.eu/webinar…/ernst-training-school/

In case you missed it or were not able to attand, lecture is available for you here https://youtu.be/jGClEibgF7E

On the 26th August 2021, our colleague from team Care 4 Health, Veronika Pačutová, successfully defended her short thesis focusing on „Managing of difficult situations during healthcare providing“ at Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice.

Incorrect decisions or mistakes are also a natural part of the healthcare professions. However, such errors may or may not cause harm to the patient (first victim), healthcare worker (second victim) or even healthcare institution (third victim), depending on their nature or extent. An important part is to know how to admit the mistake and manage it with the possibility to share the reached experience for the benefit of others who might potentially avoid it in the future. Huge examination for healthcare workers has been the crisis situation in recent times, the COVID-19 pandemic, which has taken everyone by surprise. Even before the pandemic, the Slovak Republic and other European Union countries were facing a shortage of healthcare workers for their population. The pandemic has already posed this greatly undersized number of healthcare workers with further increased risks. Confronted them with an unusual burden in constantly changing conditions and thus a higher risk of errors, which could lead to adverse events, which added to the burden the extra burden of survival of the “second victims” while unsatisfactory support measures or interventions ensuring the process of their recovery.  

„The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes.“ Lucian L. Leape, M.D.