[“I can’t do it alone.” Household workload and division of labour among Hungarian female physicians]
GYŐRFFY Zsuzsa
FEBRUARY 22, 2013
Lege Artis Medicinae - 2013;23(02)
GYŐRFFY Zsuzsa
FEBRUARY 22, 2013
Lege Artis Medicinae - 2013;23(02)
[BACKGROUND - Mental and somatic morbidity and role conflict among female physicians has become an issue of growing interest in the Hungarian and international literature. Among the potential backgrounds factor, the household labour is a less studied field. METHODS - A qualitative, pilot study (N=36) was conducted among female physicians in Hungary. The structured interview was focused on amount and division of household labour, the attitudes of household labour division and the harmonization of professional workload and household work. RESULTS - About of 66% of interviewed female physicians do the household work alone. About 33% is supported by partner in the household labour, and in one case the male partner does the household work alone. The responders are not satisfied with the division of household labour, and they want the amount of professional workload and household work both to be reduced. CONCLUSIONS - Our study is a pilot for further quantitative research. Our findings suggest that the Hungarian female physicians have traditional household labour division. The lack of the division is important to understand the problem of role conflict and the morbidity.]
Lege Artis Medicinae
Lege Artis Medicinae
Lege Artis Medicinae
Lege Artis Medicinae
Lege Artis Medicinae
Lege Artis Medicinae
[BACKGROUND - The female Physicians’ well-being and happiness has become the latest researching field of the “Physicians studies”. In Hungary the researches haven't focused on this subject. Our aim was to examine the subjective well-being of the Hungarian female Physicians. METHODS - Representative, cross-sectional, quantitative survey on a representative sample of female Physicians (N=408). Modified version of WHO Well- Being Index was performed to measure of subjective Well-Being. RESULTS - We have found that the key to the Hungarian female Physicians’ wellbeing is the “time”. Significantly higher rate of well-being is associated with reduced work-hours (8 hour or less, p=0.000), and duty hours (p=0.042), having one hour free time daily (p=0.021) and they satisfied with the time of doctor-patient interaction (p=0.021). The higher rate of Well-Being scores haven't associated with age, marital status, number of children and the speciality. CONCLUSION - Similarly to the national trends, the Hungarian female Physicians' well-being is depending on the work and the satisfaction with work. The satisfied healer is the key of the health system therefore the future studies and the prevention and intervention have to focus on the Physicians’ well-being.]
Clinical Neuroscience
Cognitive dysfunction (CD) is a common non-motor symptom of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Alexithymia is a still poorly understood neuropsychiatric feature of PD. Cognitive impairment (especially visuospatial dysfunction and executive dysfunction) and alexithymia share common pathology of neuroanatomical structures. We hypothesized that there must be a correlation between CD and alexithymia levels considering this relationship of neuroanatomy. Objective – The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between alexithymia and neurocognitive function in patients with PD. Thirty-five patients with PD were included in this study. The Toronto Alexithymia Scale–20 (TAS-20), Geriatric Depression Inventory (GDI) and a detailed neuropsychological evaluation were performed. Higher TAS-20 scores were negatively correlated with Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) similarities test score (r =-0.71, p value 0.02), clock drawing test (CDT) scores (r=-0.72, p=0.02) and verbal fluency (VF) (r=-0.77, p<0.01). Difficulty identifying feelings subscale score was negatively correlated with CDT scores (r=-0.74, p=0.02), VF scores (r=-0.66, p=0.04), visual memory immediate recall (r=-0.74, p=0.01). VF scores were also correlated with difficulty describing feelings (DDF) scores (r=-0.66, p=0.04). There was a reverse relationship between WAIS similarities and DDF scores (r=-0.70, p=0.02), and externally oriented-thinking (r=-0.77,p<0.01). Executive function Z score was correlated with the mean TAS-20 score (r=-62, p=0.03) and DDF subscale score (r=-0.70, p=0.01) Alexithymia was found to be associated with poorer performance on visuospatial and executive function test results. We also found that alexithymia was significantly correlated with depressive symptoms. Presence of alexithymia should therefore warn the clinicians for co-existing CD.
Hypertension and nephrology
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Clinical Neuroscience
[Background – Dizziness is one of the most frequent complaints when a patient is searching for medical care and resolution. This can be a problematic presentation in the emergency department, both from a diagnostic and a management standpoint. Purpose – The aim of our study is to clarify what happens to patients after leaving the emergency department. Methods – 879 patients were examined at the Semmelweis University Emergency Department with vertigo and dizziness. We sent a questionnaire to these patients and we had 308 completed papers back (110 male, 198 female patients, mean age 61.8 ± 12.31 SD), which we further analyzed. Results – Based on the emergency department diagnosis we had the following results: central vestibular lesion (n = 71), dizziness or giddiness (n = 64) and BPPV (n = 51) were among the most frequent diagnosis. Clarification of the final post-examination diagnosis took several days (28.8%), and weeks (24.2%). It was also noticed that 24.02% of this population never received a proper diagnosis. Among the population only 80 patients (25.8%) got proper diagnosis of their complaints, which was supported by qualitative statistical analysis (Cohen Kappa test) result (κ = 0.560). Discussion – The correlation between our emergency department diagnosis and final diagnosis given to patients is low, a phenomenon that is also observable in other countries. Therefore, patient follow-up is an important issue, including the importance of neurotology and possibly neurological examination. Conclusion – Emergency diagnosis of vertigo is a great challenge, but despite of difficulties the targeted and quick case history and exact examination can evaluate the central or peripheral cause of the balance disorder. Therefore, to prevent declination of the quality of life the importance of further investigation is high.]
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