Emmanouil Smyrnakis (Greece)
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
School of Medicine
Dr Emmanouil Smyrnakis is a General Practitioner and an Associate Professor in Primary Health Care and Medical Education at the Laboratory of Primary Health Care, General Practice and Health Services Research School of Medicine of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTHMEdSch). He received his MSc degree in Research Methodology from AUTHMEdSch in 2005. He has worked as a GP in Vavdos Chalkidiki surgery until January 2013, when he was appointed at the AUTHMEdSch. He received his PhD from AUTHMEdSch in 2008. He is a founding member of the Clinical Skills and Simulation Center which coordinates from 2004 until today. He coordinates also the Primary Health Care courses and he is involved in many courses among which are Social Medicine and Research Methodology. Since 2009 he is a visiting lecturer at King's College London, UK. Dr Smyrnakis is the coordinator of the Primary Health Care and General Practice Educational and Research Network of AUTHMedSch. His main research interests include Primary Health Care, General Practice and Medical Education. He has the scientific supervision of the book "Basic Clinical Skills" and the supervision of the translation of "a textbook of General Practice» and “Cases Files: Family Medicine”. He published 34 papers in scientific journals and 88 papers in scientific congresses abstracts books. He is the reviewer in 3 scientific journals.

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GP EMPOWERMENT FOR EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS: A EUROPEAN MULTICENTRE DELPHI STUDY BY THE ÖRENÄS RESEARCH GROUP

Session Name
0470 - GP HEALTH AND PROFESSIONAL HEALTH (ID 49)
Date
09.07.2021, Friday
Session Time
06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Room
Hall 1
Presenter
Lecture Time
06:33 PM - 06:44 PM
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How Empowerment Contributes to GP’s Health and Well-Being. What we Learned by a European Multicentre Delphi Study.

Previous studies have demonstrated a positive relationship between empowerment and job satisfaction. Moreover, the job satisfaction level is a vital factor concerning workers' health and is most strongly related to mental and psychological health conditions, such as burnout, self-esteem, depression, and anxiety.

This study examines the factors contributing to GPs' health and well-being by empowering them in their clinical practice. We focus on a European multicentre Delphi study conducted to identify the factors that affect GPs in making a timely diagnosis of cancer in their patients.

The Delphi process, which included three rounds, allowed us to construct an anonymous panel of geographically distant European GPs from 21 European countries-members of the Örenäs Research Group. Panellists assessed the clinical relevance in a Primary Health Care setting of each of the 52 factors we had given them using a 9-point Likert scale. Finally, 53 panellists (78%) of the 68 who took part in the first round completed all three Delphi rounds. The result was a list of 12 factors that satisfied the selection criteria at the end of the third round. The majority of the selected factors were related to communication with secondary health care, working conditions (workload, bureaucracy), and established healthcare procedures, such as rapid access pathways and screening programmes.

We expect that the outcomes of this study will identify priorities and specific actions to help increase GPs’ empowerment in their clinical practice and contribute to GPs' health and well-being primarily as a consequence of improved performance and greater job satisfaction.

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