Theologia Tsitsi
Lecturer in surgical nursing
theologia.tsitsi@cut.ac.cy
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Theologia Tsitsi is a member of Special Teaching Staff in the Nursing Department since 2009. She has a Diploma in General Nursing in Nursing and Midwifery School, Nicosia, Cyprus (1993) and completed her undergraduate studies with a BSc (Hons) Professional Studies in Nursing from Anglia University in UK (1995). She is a holder of a postgraduate degree (Master’s in Science) in “Nursing’ from University of Liverpool in UK (1997) and a 2nd MSc in Healthcare Management from Open University of Cyprus (2010). She holds a PhD from the School of Nursing at the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT).
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Research
Research associate in the Nursing Department of CUT during 2010-2012, participating in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) which aimed to investigate the effectiveness of relaxation techniques: “Progressive Muscle Relaxation” (PMR) and “Guided Imagery” (GI), concerning stress level reduction in patients with prostate cancer who undergo chemotherapy and are at home.
Rresearch associate in the Nursing Department of CUT during 2016-2018, participating in a European project of ERASMUS + ‘Apps4Cares’, which aimed to develop an application for caregivers of people with chronic illnesses.
Within the context of her doctoral dissertation (2010-2014), she conducted a RCT aiming to investigate the effectiveness of relaxation techniques: “Progressive Muscle Relaxation” (PMR) and “Guided Imagery” (GI), concerning stress level reduction in parents of children with malignancies who undergo treatment at the hospital.
In her first postgraduate degree “MSc Nursing” (1996-1997), she did a qualitative research, in order to study nurses’ knowledge concerning the term “evidence-based nursing practice”. In her second postgraduate degree “MA Healthcare Management” (2006-2010), it was based on a Pan-Cyprian quantitative research which studied the opinions and assessment of patients for the provided care at the four urban hospitals in Cyprus (Nicosia, Limassol, Larnaka, Paphos). The specific research was assigned and funded by the Ministry of Health for the Master’s Program of Study “Health Management” at the Open University of Cyprus.
Through her research activity, she covered the basic research methodologies (quantitative, qualitative research and controlled trial) which are used in Health Sciences. She participated in more than five (5) international conferences, where she presented parts of her research, which are registered in the conferences’ proceedings.
As an educator for the School of Nursing in Cyprus and as Special Teaching Staff at CUT, she have taught, supervised and assessed research studies of third-year and fourth-year students. As a member of the publishing committee of the scientific journal “Cyprus Nursing Chronicles”, she systematically assessed research projects for publication in the journal.
She is a member in the European Oncology Nursing Society (EONS). It is a pan-European membership organization for cancer nurses, the largest group of healthcare workers in the oncology workforce.
Publications
- Charalambous, A, Tsitsi, T (2010) The impact of globalization in the healthcare arena and the development of a supernational prescriptive framework. Archives of Hellenic Medicine, 27(1):106-112. Impact Factor: N/A
- Charalambous, A, Tsitsi, T (2010) The identification of the factors that contribute to the systematic use of condom for the prevention of unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases based on the Health Belief Model. Archives of Hellenic Medicine 27(3):449-459. Impact Factor: N/A
- Tsitsi T., Raftopoulos V. Papastavrou E., Charalambous A., (2014) Complementary and alternative medical interventions for the management of anxiety in parents of children who are hospitalized and suffer from a malignancy: a systematic review of RCTs. European Journal of Integrative Medicine Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages 112-124.
- Tsitsi T., Charalambous A., Papastavrou E., Raftopoulos V. (2015) Effectiveness of a Relaxation Intervention Technique (Progressive Muscle Relaxation and Guided Imagery techniques) to Reduce Anxiety of Parents of Hospitalized Children With Malignancies: A randomized controlled trial.
- Andreas Charalambous, Charis P Kaite, Melanie Charalambous, Theologia Tsitsi, and Christiana Kouta (2017) The effects on anxiety and quality of life of breast cancer patients following completion of the first cycle of chemotherapy, SAGE Open Medicine, Volume 5, Pages 1-10.
- Charalambous A.,, Adamakidou T., Cloconi C., Charalambous M., Tsitsi T., Vondráčková L., Bužgová R. (2017) The Quality of Oncology Nursing Care: A Cross Sectional Survey in Three Countries in Europe. Eur J Oncol Nurs, 27:45-52.
- Helena Ullgren, Theologia Tsitsi, Evridiki Papastavrou, Andreas Charalambous (2018) How family caregivers of cancer patients manage symptoms at home: A systematic review International Journal of Nursing Studies, Volume 85, Pages 68-79.
Education
Ph.D Nursing Oncology (2015), Cyprus University of Technology (CUT)
Faculty of Health Science, Department of Nursing
Thesis title: ‘A randomized control trial of the use of Guided Imagery and Progressive Muscle Relaxation as a stress management technique for parents with a child suffering from cancer’
MA Healthcare Management (2010), Open University of Cyprus
Faculty of Economics and Management
Dissertation Title: “Researching and assessing patient satisfaction for healthcare services provided in the four urban hospitals in Cyprus”
MSc Nursing (1997), University of Liverpool (United Kingdom)
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Nursing
Dissertation Title: «Evidence-Based Practice: Another Stumbling Block for Nurses»
BSc (Hons) Professional Studies in Nursing (1995), Anglia University (United Kingdom/Cambridge)
Faculty of Health & Social Work
Diploma of General Nursing (1993)
School of Nursing, Nicosia, Cyprus
