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Chronic Illness-Public Health International

Greece

Ph.D. in Health Psychology

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Paraskevi Theofilou

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 Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Department of Psychology, Athens, Greece

Research Interests:

Behavioural medicine/health psychology are focused on heath - related quality of life, mental health (depression, anxiety), health locus of control, pain self-efficacy, fatigue, social support, patients’ satisfaction as well as medication adherence in chronic illness.

Biography:

Past experience

  1. General Manager of Health Services, Ministry of Health, Athens, Greece.
  2. Visiting Researcher Health Psychologist (with emphasis on health - related quality of life issues) - Centre for Research and Technology - Thessaly (CE.RE.TE.TH), Trikala, Greece.
  3. Deputy Manager Administrative, “SOTIRIA” Hospital for Thoracic Diseases, Athens, Greece.

 

Teaching experience

  1. November 2023 Teaching in the Undergraduate Program of the Nursing Department of the Univ. Peloponnese as part of the Health Psychology course on "Stress - Stress Management".
  2. April 2022 Teaching in the Master's Program "Leadership, Innovation & Value Policies in Health" and the course "Management, Operations Redesign and Quality of Health Services" - University of West Attica, School of Public Health with the teaching unit National Quality Strategy

Publications:

  1. Theofilou P., Dimitris D. Vlastos, Plemmenos N. (2023). Burnout, Mental Resilience and Quality of Life in Greek Professionals of Public and Private Sector: Which Is the Impact of Demographic, Occupational and Psychological Variables?
  2. Eleni Anifantopoulou, Paraskevi Theofilou. (2023). Exploring social support, pain self-efficacy and health beliefs in older adults with musculoskeletal disorders. Series Clin Med Case Rep Rev. 1(5):1-8.
  3. Lydia Lefe, Dimitris D. Vlastos, Theofilou P. (2023). Job burnout in telework of Greek workers: A quantitative study identifying the correlation of extroversion and introversion with job burnout. Series Clin Med Case Rep Rev. 1(5):1-11.