Creating conditions for male partner involvement in birth in the Hungarian obstetric wards during the COVID-19 pandemic / Az együttszülés feltételeinek megteremtése a hazai szülészeti osztályokon a COVID-19-járvány idején.

Összefoglaló. Bevezetés: Az Egészségügyi Világszervezet adatai alapján 2020 oszére a világ minden régióját elérte az új koronavírus (SARS-CoV-2) okozta fertozés. Magyarországon 2020 márciusában az elso esetek - több más betegjogi kérdés mellett - ráirányították a figyelmet a betegtájékoztatás kiemelt fontosságára, annak jogszabály szerinti betartására, valamint az alkalmazás során fellépo nehézségekre. Tekintve, hogy az együttszülés lehetosége az utóbbi évtizedekben egyre népszerubb a családtervezés és a közös életkezdés folyamatában, az apák felkészítése a szülésre - a járványhelyzet miatt megváltozott tájékoztatási szigorítások összehangolásával - a szülészeti osztályok jelentos feladata lett. A betegtájékoztatás teljes köru alkalmazása során számos szempontot kellett figyelembe venni ahhoz, hogy a szülés az anya és az apa számára pozitív emlék maradjon, még olyan helyzetben is, mint a COVID-19-járvány. Célkituzés: Elemezni kívántuk, hogy a magyarországi szülészeti osztályokon hogyan lehetett a világjárvány idején is betartani a hatályos jogszabályokat és eljárásrendeket, milyen intézkedések váltak szükségessé az együttszülés gyakorlatának fenntartásához, és egyidejuleg biztosítani, hogy a szülononek és férfi partnerének a tájékoztatáshoz való jogai ne sérüljenek. Módszer: Online 14 feleletválogatós kérdoívet küldtünk valamennyi magyarországi, állami fenntartású kórház és klinika szülészeti osztálya vezetojének. A beérkezett kérdoívek adatait összevetettük az intézmények honlapján az együttszüléssel kapcsolatos információkkal is. Eredmények: A 2020. március 20. és szeptember 20. közötti fél évben a várandós párok tájékoztatása során a szolgáltatók minden esetben a hatályos eljárásrendeket követték, ez azonban több esetben többlet anyagi ráfordítást és szervezést jelentett számukra. Következtetés: Adataink rámutatnak arra, hogy az együttszüléssel kapcsolatosan a szülésre érkezok igyekeznek a leheto legjobban tájékozódni, és ugyanolyan elvárásaik vannak a szülés körülményeit illetoen, mint a járványmentes idoszakban. Amennyiben a tájékoztatás kielégíto és részletes számukra, az esetleges hátrányos változtatásokat is jobban tolerálják. A járványra tekintettel valamennyi osztályon megmaradt az együttszülés lehetosége, a megfelelo járványügyi intézkedések megtartása mellett. Orv Hetil. 2021; 162(21): 824-829. INTRODUCTION: According to data collected by the World Health Organization, by the autumn of 2020, all regions of the world were affected by SARS-CoV-2 viral infection. In Hungary, the first cases were detected in March 2020, and the epidemic, among several other patient rights issues, drew attention to the paramount importance of patient information, its compliance with the law, and the difficulties encountered in its application. During the last decades, the possibility of male partner involvement in birth has become increasingly popular in the process of family planning and starting a life together. Preparing fathers for childbirth and coordinating information restrictions that have changed due to the epidemic is a priority for obstetric departments. The full application of patient information requires a number of considerations to ensure that childbirth remains a positive memory for mother and father, even in a situation such as the COVID-19 pandemic. OBJECTIVE: We wanted to analyze how the obstetric wards in Hungary were able to comply with the laws and procedures in force at the time of the pandemic, what measures became necessary for creating male partner involvement in births, and at the same time to ensure that the rights of the mother and the father are not violated. METHOD: We sent an online questionnaire to the head of the obstetrics department of all Hungarian state hospitals and clinics, using 14 multiple-choice questions. The data of the received questionnaires were also compared with the information related to male partner involvement in births published on the websites of the institutions. RESULTS: In the period from 20 March to 20 September 2020, in terms of informing pregnant couples, the service providers always followed the procedures in force, but in several cases this meant more financial expenditure and organization for them. CONCLUSION: Our data showed that those who give birth insist on the best possible information about conditions of male partner involvement in births, have the same expectations about the conditions of childbirth as during the epidemic-free period. If the information is satisfactory and detailed for them, they are more tolerant of adverse changes. In view of the epidemic, the possibility of father involvement in birth remained in all departments available, while maintaining appropriate epidemiological measures. Orv Hetil. 2021; 162(21): 824-829.

[Spams in doctors' mailbox: their threat to health education, to patient information and to scientific research]. / Kéretlen e-mailek az orvos postafiókjában: ezek veszélyei az egészségnevelésre, a betegtájékoztatásra és a tudományos munkára.

Introduction: The term "spam" is applied to unwanted commercial e-mails sent to all whose e-mail addresses have been acquired by the spammers. The number of undesirable e-mails is growing in the health-care related areas as well. The targets of health-care related spams are laymen, physicians and academic researchers alike. Method: On the basis of 12,986 unwanted letters received in one year, the authors concluded that percentage of health-related spam is the second most common spam (27%) in relation to all spam. Most of the spam (63%) aggressively promoted purchasing of various consumer goods, but health-related spam are far ahead of the rest. The collected data were grouped by year and topic and they are analyzed by simple descriptive statistics. Spam form of cyber attacks on health care issues were divided into two: spam what is jeopardized individuals' health (e.g. medical compounds without any curing effect, misleading statement on medical device, fraudulent panacea offers, and cheating cure methods, etc.) and onslaught on medical scientific activity (pseudo-scientific congress invitation, predator journal invitation etc.). Results: The topics of spams addressed to laymen are offered for perfect healing by strange treatments, cures (31%), panaceas (19%), lifestyle advice (19%), massage (16%), brand new health-care devices (4%) and drugs for sexual dysfunction (11%). The topics of spams addressed to physicians and researchers are deluged by pseudoscientific materials: invitation for articles to be sent to no-name/fake open-access journals (68%), invitation to participate at an obscure congress (27%) or newsletters on miscellanous medical topics (5%). Conclusion: The spams offer very often relief or solution to medical problems that the present-day medical practice cannot solve perfectly (oncological, musculo-sceletal, endocrin or metabolic problems). Understandably, the patients would hold on to fake hopes - and the authentic patient education and health promotion will be neglected. These unwanted messages practically cannot be unsubscribed, and - while the spam filters are far from perfection - the victim must go through the filtered spam-dustbin in order not to miss some real messages. Unfortunately no legal regulation (neither local, nor GDPR) can block or stop the spams. The spams are misleading the laymen and jeopardise the effects of professional and responsible health promotion and health education. Orv Hetil. 2019; 160(43): 1706-1710.

[Pre-travel advice and patient education of Hungarian travellers]. / Utazás elotti tanácsadás és betegedukáció a magyar utazóknál.

INTRODUCTION: According to international surveys, over half of the travellers face some kind of health issue when travelling. The overwhelming majority of travel-related illnesses can be prevented with pre-travel medical consultations, but the syllabus and content of the consultation have to match the travel habits and culture of the given society. AIM: This publication explores the specificities and travel habits of Hungarian travellers. METHOD: One hundred participants of a travel exhibition completed a survey about their international travel. As the survey was not representative, the data could only be processed through simple statistical methods. However, since the exhibition was presumably attended by those wishing to travel, the conclusions drawn from the results are worth publishing, since no similar survey in Hungary has been published before. RESULTS: Based on the suitable classification of age groups in travel medicine, 11% of the participants were adolescents / young adults (aged 15-24), 81% adults (25-59) and 8% elderly (60-74). Twenty-eight percent of the participants travel multiple times a year, 40% yearly and 32% of them less frequently; 16% of the adults, 8% of the adolescents and 4% of the elderly age group travel multiple times a year. CONCLUSIONS: The travel destinations of Hungarian travellers have remained practically unchanged since a study was conducted 13 years ago: the vast majority (95%) travelled within Europe, 2% to the United States, and 11% of them elsewhere. Since Hungarians do not travel to endemic areas, only 5% consulted their general practitioners (GPs) prior to travelling, and 29% did when they had to be vaccinated. Forty-two percent of those wishing to travel never consult their GPs, even though 29% of them are aware of some chronic illness. Instead, 51% gather their health information from the internet and only 6% from their doctors. By the contradiction between the poor health status of the majority of Hungarian travellers and the negligence of seeking pre-travel advice, our survey clearly points out the importance of the propagation of doctor's advice before trips, even if the travellers visit exclusively non-endemic countries like the European Union. Orv Hetil. 2018; 159(9): 357-362.

[Epidemiological data of Hungarian skiers' and snowboarders' medical problems]. / A magyar alpesi sízok és hódeszkázók egészségkárosodásainak összehasonlító statisztikai elemzése.

INTRODUCTION AND AIM: There are no high mountains or any advantageous circumstances for winter sports in Hungary, yet within the 10 million population there are about half a million people (the exact number is 550,000) who tend to go for skiing or snowboarding abroad. Authors compared the injury statistical data with results described in the international literature in order to develop conclusions about the differences in the injury patterns and frequency between the Hungarian ones' and those found in countries with plenty of winter sport possibilities. METHOD: Authors analysed the winter sport injury cases of an insurance company. All the injury happened abroad and the assistance provider of the insurance company has managed the patient treatment and repatriation. Three winter seasons (12 months) data was analysed from the point of view of injuries frequency at different body parts and areas. Due to the fact that only limited information was available a simple statistical method was applied. RESULTS: Of 222 cases 90.5% were ski-related injury and 8.6% were snowboard injury. As for the skiers, the upper limb injuries accounted for 21.9%, the truncal region for 24.4% and the lower limb for 55.8%. Among snowboarders the upper limb injuries accounted for 36.9%, the truncal region for 37% and the lower limb for 26.1%. The most frequent was the knee (36.8%), the wrist (12.4) and the shoulder (11.4) injury. Skier's thumb injury was only 1.5%. The most common snowboard injury was the wrist trauma (31.6%), the head/neck/face was accounted 15.8% of all the injuries. And the ankle was injured in 10.5% of all the cases. The head/neck and the knee injury often combined with injuries of some other body part. 29 patients (13%) had to be repatriated, the most frequent reason for the repatriation was the injury of the lower limb. CONCLUSIONS: The Hungarian sportsmen's injury patterns do not always follow data described in the international literature, but they correspond to data of countries with similar geographical situation. The injury rate of knee and of the shoulder displays same data, the injury rate of the wrist was more frequent than in the international data, and this is true both for skiers and the snowboarders. The Hungarians' injury of the truncal region (mainly the head) was more frequent, but on the other hand the general injury rate of other body parts proved to be a lower number. It seems that the frequent use of the protective equipment and the preventive measures applied by the Hungarians are mirrored in the lower injury figures. Orv. Hetil., 2017, 158(16), 618-624.