Adamakidou Theodoula

Name: THEODOULA ADAMAKIDOU

Current Position: Associate Professor

Scientific Domain: Community and Home Health Care Nursing

Sector: B’ Community and Public Health Nursing

Administrative positions: Director of “Research Laboratory of Home Health Care”, Deputy Director of the Coordinating committee of the Master course in ”Community and Public Health Nursing”, organized by the Nursing Department of the University of West Attica (PADA)

Laboratory: “Research Laboratory of Home Health Care”

Tel: 0030 210-5387448 (office K6.027)

Email: thadam@uniwa.gr , adamakidou@yahoo.gr

Research Gate id: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Theodoula-Adamakidou

Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=zWoubcwAAAAJ&hl=el

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6025-8260

Education She graduated the Nursing Department of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, she completed a Master of Science in Clinical Nursing and a Master of Science in Management of Health Services Administration (MHSA). She also received her PhD thesis in Home Health Care Nursing.

Research interests Main research interests are the organization of home care services and the way the care provided at home, patient quality of life and satisfaction from the care received, cancer patient care and interdisciplinary health care team aspects at primary health care, technology applications to support home and community health care. She has participated as a researcher in the Erasmus+ program “InterHealth” «Intercultural Competences for health Care Professionals» and in national projects (ESPA projects) «ΑΚΕΣΩ-Ι, Development of an Integrated Post-Hospital Patient Health Care System, coming from Vulnerable Social Groups. Networking of Nursing Services for PHC and Nursing Volunteers of the Hellenic Red Cross with General Hospitals in Athens, Ioannina and Thessaloniki» and «Developement a model for the quality of cancer patients’ health education, self-care and rehabilitation» as well as she was a researcher at European project «health PROelderly: Evidence based guidelines on health promotion for older people: social determinants, inequality and sustainability» and the project COST PROmoting GeRiAtric Medicine IN countries where it is still eMerGing.

Academic appointments: 2013-2018 Lecturer of the Nursing Department of TEI of Athens, 2018-07/2022 Assistant Professor and 07/2022-til now Associate professor of the Nursing Department of PADA.

Professional experience: She has long-term clinical nursing experience (14 years) in the Anticancer Hospital “Agios Savvas”.  

Courses Taught

Undergraduate Courses: Home Health Care Nursing, Community Nursing, Public Health Nursing, Occupational Health Nursing, Gerontological Nursing, Introduction in Nursing Science, Fundamentals in Nursing.

Postgraduate Courses: Home Health Care Nursing, Occupational Health Nursing, Oncology nursing, Interdisciplinary care, Health Services Administration, Assessment family’s health.

Other information: She has 132 presentations in Greek and international conferences and plenty of participations in conferences.

Recent publications: She has a number of publications in Greek and international journals. She is a co-author in books about Home Health Care Nursing, Transcultural Nursing, Oncology Nursing and Interdisciplinary Team in Primary Health Care and the “Handbook for the family’s health assessment in home health care nursing”.

Adamakidou, T., Menti, K., Charalambous, A., Tsiou, C., Vlachou, E., & Govina, O. (2023). Changes in unmet care needs, social support and distress from initial diagnosis to post-surgery in patients with gynecological cancer: A longitudinal study. European journal of oncology nursing, 66, 102358. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejon.2023.102358

Moustakopoulou L, Adamakidou T, Plakas S, Drakopoulou M, Apostolara P, Mantoudi A, Mastrogiannis D, Zartaloudi A, Parissopoulos S, Koreli A, Mantzorou M. Exploring Loneliness, Fear and Depression among Older Adults during the COVID-19 Era: A Cross-Sectional Study in Greek Provincial Towns. Healthcare. 2023; 11(9):1234. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11091234

Tsatsou I, Mystakidou K, Adamakidou T, Konstantinidis T, Kalemikerakis I, Galanos A, Govina O. Sexual Function in Women Survivors of Hematologic Malignancy after Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation. Curr Oncol. 2023 Mar 1;30(3):2916-2927

Adamakidou T. Triantafilopoulou N, Feleki P, Papadopoulou A, Kalokairinou A (2020) Clinical and epidemiological profile of patients and sociodemographic profile of caregivers and volunteers from the Greek home health care. International Journal of Caring Sciences 13(9): 1807-1817 

Adamakidou T. Triantafilopoulou N, Feleki P, Papadopoulou A, Kalokairinou A (2020) Team members roles in home health care: evidence from the “ΑΚΕΣΩ I” project in Greece”. Home Healthcare Now 38(6): 318-326 DOI: 10.1097/NHH.0000000000000907

Zindrou C, Adamakidou T, Kleisiaris C (2020) Associations between Disability in Activities of Daily Living and Social Capital aspects among older adults: a scoping review. Journal of Frailty, Sarcopenia & Falls 1;6(3):119-130

Adamakidou T. & Kalokerinou A. (2016) Home health nursing care services in Greece during an economic crisis. International Nursing Review 64(1):126-134

Charalambous A., Adamakidou T. (2014) Construction and validation of the quality of oncology nursing care scale (QONCS). BMC Nursing. 13:48, doi:  10.1186/s12912-014-0048-4 

Manti P, Mastrogiannis D, Mantzorou M, Adamakidou T, Mantoudi A, Stefanidou S, Timmins F (2021) Stress Levels and Coping Strategies Among Undergraduate Nursing Students in Greece During Economic Recession. Nurse Education in Practice 60, 103299

Tsatsou I, Kontsntinidis T, Kalemikerakis I, Adamakidou T, Vlachou, Gkovina O. (2020) Unmet supportive care needs of patients with haematological malignancies.  A Systematic Review. Asian Journal of Oncology Nursing 8(1): 5-17

Plakas, S., Mastrogiannis, D., Mantzorou, M., Adamakidou, T., Fouka, G., Bouziou, A., Tsiou, C. and Morisky, D. (2016) Validation of the 8-Item Morisky Medication Adherence Scale in Chronically Ill Ambulatory Patients in Rural Greece. Open Journal of Nursing, 6, 158-169. doi: 10.4236/ojn.2016.63017.

Adamakidou T, Galanis P, Kallergis G, Katostaras T, Patiraki E, Kalokerinou A (2015). Assessing health related quality of life in the Greek home health care setting: comparing cancer patients’ and nurses’ assessment. Home Health Management and Practice. 27(3): 135-141,

Adamakidou Th., Kalokerinou A. (2011) Quality of Life and cancer patient (Part I): meaning and concept. Balkan Military Medical Review, 14(4): 289-303 (review).

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