Journal of Clinical & Experimental Dermatology Research
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External Faculty at the Integrative Behavioral Health Research Institute (IBHRI), Los Angeles, USA

Biography

Maria Petridou, Research Professor. Ph.D. in 1983, External Faculty at the Integrative Behavioral Health Research Institute (IBHRI), Author of the Fatty Acids. He has focused on real-time organisation of behavior, co-directed Chest wall analysis, published numerous papers and given invited talks and keynotes at universities in Europe, USA and Japan and at international conferences in Acute Renal Failure, Nephrology, Fatty Acids, Dialysis, Mitochondria, Enzymes, Hemodialysis,  hdl-plasmapheresis, acute renal faiure, Lupus Nephritis. His research interests includes Hemodialysis.

Publications

• Research Article   
  Factors that Predict Patients' Satisfaction with the Psychological Outcome and the Appearance of their Skin after Treatment
  Author(s): Charalambos Costeris*, Maria Petridou and Yianna Ioannou
  
  Objective: The present study examined whether dermatological patients’ demographic and social characteristics could predict their satisfaction with the medical outcome. Moreover, it focused on two aspects of patients’ satisfaction; firstly, psychological factors that could predict satisfaction from the medical outcome and secondly, satisfaction from the appearance of their skin, after treatment. Methods: 108 patients (18~35 years) participated in the study. Fifty four were diagnosed by their Dermatologists with severe visible facial cystic acne (Group A) and 54 with non-visible psoriasis/eczema (Group B). The study included two assessment phases: prior to and post dermatological treatment phase. At prior to treatment phase, all patients agreed with their Dermatologist to begin medical treatment and were administer.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2155-9554.21.12.552

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