Gillie Gabay
Biographic Data
| ID | 167803 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gillie Gabay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gillie |
| FAMILY NAME | Gabay |
| SIGNATURE | GABAY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Achva Academic College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1767-8710 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Perceived Cultural Competence in Postpartum Units
INTRODUCTION: Globalization and rising immigration highlight the importance of culturally competent nursing care, yet global reports reveal persistent cultural insensitivity. This study explored how new mothers in postpartum units perceive nurses' cultural competence, examining its relationship to mothers' religious and cultural backgrounds and breastfeeding outcomes. METHOD: After obtaining ethical approval, 229 Israeli mothers (Hebrew or Arabic…
Revisiting the hospital-issued gown in hospitalizations from a locus of control and patient-centered care perspectives
Introduction: Patient-centered care (PCC) is the preferred health policy approach that emphasizes responding to individual patient preferences, wishes, and needs. PCC requires active patient engagement. While there has been extensive research on physicians' robes, there is limited research on hospital-issued patient gowns during hospitalizations. How does the gown affect the cognitive-emotional experience of hospitalized patients? How is the gown…
Professional burnout among expert physicians, patient‐focused care, and trust in top management
INTRODUCTION: Professional burnout in physicians is perceived as an inevitable occupational hazard inhibiting patient-focused care, the preferred approach of care, which enhances satisfaction of physicians with their work and improves clinical outcomes. Burnout jeopardizes the physical, mental, and emotional health of physicians, inhibiting high-quality care. Most individual-driven interventions and job-level interventions to reduce burnout prove…
The protective role of sense of coherence in resident physicians facing secondary trauma due to patient death in intensive care—A qualitative inquiry
The salutogenic paradigm is increasingly used in research and practice but remains to be investigated in secondary trauma of health professionals. This qualitative study explored the main anchor of salutogenics, the sense-of-coherence, as a coping mechanism among resident physicians facing secondary trauma due to continuous exposure to patient suffering and deaths. Participants were sixteen resident physicians from intensive care units at emergen…
Nurse-patient interactions in intensive care, transitions along the continuum of hope, and post-discharge management of chronic illness—A mixed methods narrative inquiry
OPINION article Front. Public Health, 06 March 2023Sec. Public Health Education and Promotion Volume 11 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1136207
Is it the “public” health system? The Voice model for inclusiveness in universal (national) health systems - lessons from Covid-19
Since its inception, Israel has provided universal public health care for all its citizens via four not-forprofit health maintenance organizations (HMOs). Definitions of public health abound, including the organized response by society to protect and promote health, to prevent injury, illness, and disability, and to "provide the necessary conditions for a population to be healthy ]1]. Universal or national health systems view the right to health …
From a View of the Hospital as a System to a View of the Suffering Patient
Purpose: Hospitals aspire to provide patient-centered care but are far from achieving it. This qualitative mixed methods study explored the capacity of hospital directors to shift from a hospital systemic-view to a suffering patient-view applying the Salutogenic theory. Methods: Following IRB, we conducted in-depth narrative interviews with six directors of the six Israeli academic tertiary public hospitals, focusing on their managerial role. In …
An Inverted Container in Containing and Not Containing Hospitalized Patients—A Multidisciplinary Narrative Inquiry
Objective: Patient-centered care calls to contain patients in their time of crisis. This study extends the knowledge of provider patient interactions in the hectic environment of acute care applying Bion's container-contained framework from psychoanalysis. Methods: Following ethical approval, we performed a narrative inquiry of the experiences of ten patients upon discharge from lengthy hospitalizations in acute care. Interviews were conducted up…
Cultivating Psychological Resilience of Israeli Medical Directors of Covid-19 Divisions
Purpose: There are a few qualitative studies on the psychological resilience of COVID-19 medical directors upon outbreaks of pandemics. Psychological resilience is essential to providing quality care through the pandemic. Materials and Methods: We conducted narrative interviews with 14 out of 21 medical directors of COVID-19 divisions in Israeli public hospitals upon the outbreak of the pandemic and through its first wave. We adopted the Salutoge…
Metaphors of War in Effective and Ineffective Coping of Medical Directors of Covid-19 Wards in Public Hospitals
The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged medical professionals worldwide with an unprecedented need to provide care under conditions of complexity, uncertainty, and danger. These conditions, coupled with the unrelenting stress of overwhelming workloads, exhaustion, and decision-making fatigue, have forced clinicians to generate coping mechanisms. This qualitative study explored the use of metaphors as a coping mechanism by clinical directors of COVID…
Science and behavioral intentions among Israeli Jewish ultra-Orthodox males
The COVID-19 vaccine is a scientific breakthrough to end the pandemic. We explore perceptions underlying behavioral intentions toward the COVID-19 vaccine among ultra-Orthodox Jewish males in Israel upon rollout of the vaccine. Forty-two men aged 36–56 years participated in in-depth interviews. The theoretical anchor is Miller’s theory of scientific literacy. The research questions are “What perceptions shape rejection of the COVID-19 vaccine?” “…
Death From Covid-19, Muslim Death Rituals and Disenfranchised Grief – A Patient-Centered Care Perspective
In Islam, religious directives regarding death are derived from the Quran and Islamic tradition, but there is a variety of death rituals and practices, lived by Muslims across contexts and geographies. This narrative study explored the dynamics of death and bereavement resulting from COVID-19 death among religious Muslims in Israel. Narrative interviews were conducted with 32 religious Muslims ages 73-85. Findings suggest several absent death rit…
Invalidating the Leadership of Muslim Spiritual Leaders in Death From Covid-And Shaping the Grief Journey – A Narrative Inquiry
This narrative study voices the perspectives of a hidden population, spiritual leaders of the Muslim minority in Israel whose leadership in attending to deaths throughout COVID-19 was invalidated. Findings elucidate their dilemmas as being responsible for protecting the community from infection on one hand, and for guiding religious death rituals and preventing disenfranchised grief of families and the community on the other hand. Denying religio…
An Adlerian-Based Narrative Inquiry of Temporal Awareness, Resilience, and Patient-Centeredness Among Emergency Physicians-The Gyroscope Model
Introduction Although extensive research examined time perceptions among patients in the emergency department (ED), studies on temporal awareness among emergency physicians is scant. Salutogenics is the theoretical anchor. Methods The sample comprised ten emergency resident physicians from an Israeli public tertiary hospital. Narrative interviews were conducted. To determine the theme of the study, Adlerian narrative analysis was performed. To id…
Underground Covid-19 Home Hospitals for Haredim
This thematic study analyzed the experiences of Jewish Haredi (Lithuanian) patients in underground home hospitals during the second wave of COVID-19 in Israel. This minority comprises 12.6% of the Israeli population. Participants were 30 members of this hidden population, ages 59-78. Haredi complied with community directives rather than with the national directive of hospitalizing COVID-19 patient only at public hospitals. Compliance with communi…
Containing Covid-19 by Matching Messages on Social Distancing to Emergent Mindsets—The Case of North America
Public compliance with social distancing is key to containing COVID-19, yet there is a lack of knowledge on which communication 'messages' drive compliance. Respondents (224 Canadians and Americans) rated combinations of messages about compliance, systematically varied by an experimental design. Independent variables were perceived risk; the agent communicating the policy; specific social distancing practices; and methods to enforce compliance. R…
A Nonheroic Cancer Narrative
This longitudinal nonheroic narrative study allows familiarity with personal and societal transitions in the self-identity of individuals with life-threatening cancer. The theoretical anchor is Bion's container-contained theory. Five interviews with a terminally ill hospitalized male in his 30s were conducted along intervals of between 6 and 8 weeks, up to 2 months before his death. Data were analyzed using the selection mechanisms method. Findin…
Patient Self-worth and Communication Barriers to Trust of Israeli Patients in Acute-Care Physicians at Public General Hospitals
Patient trust is positively related to health outcomes, but there remain barriers to patient trust in physicians. This narrative study analyzed patient experiences and highlights barriers to patient trust underlying communication with physicians in acute care. Snowball sampling was used. Informants were 12 participants, in poor physical health, upon discharge from a 3-week hospitalization in an acute-care setting at an Israeli public general hosp…
Patient Self-worth and Communication Barriers to Trust of Israeli Patients in Acute-Care Physicians at Public General Hospitals
Patient trust is positively related to health outcomes, but there remain barriers to patient trust in physicians. This narrative study analyzed patient experiences and highlights barriers to patient trust underlying communication with physicians in acute care. Snowball sampling was used. Informants were 12 participants, in poor physical health, upon discharge from a 3-week hospitalization in an acute-care setting at an Israeli public general hosp…
A Nonheroic Cancer Narrative
This longitudinal nonheroic narrative study allows familiarity with personal and societal transitions in the self-identity of individuals with life-threatening cancer. The theoretical anchor is Bion's container-contained theory. Five interviews with a terminally ill hospitalized male in his 30s were conducted along intervals of between 6 and 8 weeks, up to 2 months before his death. Data were analyzed using the selection mechanisms method. Findin…
Patient Self-worth and Communication Barriers to Trust of Israeli Patients in Acute-Care Physicians at Public General Hospitals
Patient trust is positively related to health outcomes, but there remain barriers to patient trust in physicians. This narrative study analyzed patient experiences and highlights barriers to patient trust underlying communication with physicians in acute care. Snowball sampling was used. Informants were 12 participants, in poor physical health, upon discharge from a 3-week hospitalization in an acute-care setting at an Israeli public general hosp…
Containing Covid-19 by Matching Messages on Social Distancing to Emergent Mindsets—The Case of North America
Public compliance with social distancing is key to containing COVID-19, yet there is a lack of knowledge on which communication 'messages' drive compliance. Respondents (224 Canadians and Americans) rated combinations of messages about compliance, systematically varied by an experimental design. Independent variables were perceived risk; the agent communicating the policy; specific social distancing practices; and methods to enforce compliance. R…
Underground Covid-19 Home Hospitals for Haredim
This thematic study analyzed the experiences of Jewish Haredi (Lithuanian) patients in underground home hospitals during the second wave of COVID-19 in Israel. This minority comprises 12.6% of the Israeli population. Participants were 30 members of this hidden population, ages 59-78. Haredi complied with community directives rather than with the national directive of hospitalizing COVID-19 patient only at public hospitals. Compliance with communi…
From a View of the Hospital as a System to a View of the Suffering Patient
Purpose: Hospitals aspire to provide patient-centered care but are far from achieving it. This qualitative mixed methods study explored the capacity of hospital directors to shift from a hospital systemic-view to a suffering patient-view applying the Salutogenic theory. Methods: Following IRB, we conducted in-depth narrative interviews with six directors of the six Israeli academic tertiary public hospitals, focusing on their managerial role. In …
An Inverted Container in Containing and Not Containing Hospitalized Patients—A Multidisciplinary Narrative Inquiry
Objective: Patient-centered care calls to contain patients in their time of crisis. This study extends the knowledge of provider patient interactions in the hectic environment of acute care applying Bion's container-contained framework from psychoanalysis. Methods: Following ethical approval, we performed a narrative inquiry of the experiences of ten patients upon discharge from lengthy hospitalizations in acute care. Interviews were conducted up…
Cultivating Psychological Resilience of Israeli Medical Directors of Covid-19 Divisions
Purpose: There are a few qualitative studies on the psychological resilience of COVID-19 medical directors upon outbreaks of pandemics. Psychological resilience is essential to providing quality care through the pandemic. Materials and Methods: We conducted narrative interviews with 14 out of 21 medical directors of COVID-19 divisions in Israeli public hospitals upon the outbreak of the pandemic and through its first wave. We adopted the Salutoge…
Metaphors of War in Effective and Ineffective Coping of Medical Directors of Covid-19 Wards in Public Hospitals
The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged medical professionals worldwide with an unprecedented need to provide care under conditions of complexity, uncertainty, and danger. These conditions, coupled with the unrelenting stress of overwhelming workloads, exhaustion, and decision-making fatigue, have forced clinicians to generate coping mechanisms. This qualitative study explored the use of metaphors as a coping mechanism by clinical directors of COVID…
Science and behavioral intentions among Israeli Jewish ultra-Orthodox males
The COVID-19 vaccine is a scientific breakthrough to end the pandemic. We explore perceptions underlying behavioral intentions toward the COVID-19 vaccine among ultra-Orthodox Jewish males in Israel upon rollout of the vaccine. Forty-two men aged 36–56 years participated in in-depth interviews. The theoretical anchor is Miller’s theory of scientific literacy. The research questions are “What perceptions shape rejection of the COVID-19 vaccine?” “…
Death From Covid-19, Muslim Death Rituals and Disenfranchised Grief – A Patient-Centered Care Perspective
In Islam, religious directives regarding death are derived from the Quran and Islamic tradition, but there is a variety of death rituals and practices, lived by Muslims across contexts and geographies. This narrative study explored the dynamics of death and bereavement resulting from COVID-19 death among religious Muslims in Israel. Narrative interviews were conducted with 32 religious Muslims ages 73-85. Findings suggest several absent death rit…
Invalidating the Leadership of Muslim Spiritual Leaders in Death From Covid-And Shaping the Grief Journey – A Narrative Inquiry
This narrative study voices the perspectives of a hidden population, spiritual leaders of the Muslim minority in Israel whose leadership in attending to deaths throughout COVID-19 was invalidated. Findings elucidate their dilemmas as being responsible for protecting the community from infection on one hand, and for guiding religious death rituals and preventing disenfranchised grief of families and the community on the other hand. Denying religio…
An Adlerian-Based Narrative Inquiry of Temporal Awareness, Resilience, and Patient-Centeredness Among Emergency Physicians-The Gyroscope Model
Introduction Although extensive research examined time perceptions among patients in the emergency department (ED), studies on temporal awareness among emergency physicians is scant. Salutogenics is the theoretical anchor. Methods The sample comprised ten emergency resident physicians from an Israeli public tertiary hospital. Narrative interviews were conducted. To determine the theme of the study, Adlerian narrative analysis was performed. To id…
Nurse-patient interactions in intensive care, transitions along the continuum of hope, and post-discharge management of chronic illness—A mixed methods narrative inquiry
OPINION article Front. Public Health, 06 March 2023Sec. Public Health Education and Promotion Volume 11 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1136207
Is it the “public” health system? The Voice model for inclusiveness in universal (national) health systems - lessons from Covid-19
Since its inception, Israel has provided universal public health care for all its citizens via four not-forprofit health maintenance organizations (HMOs). Definitions of public health abound, including the organized response by society to protect and promote health, to prevent injury, illness, and disability, and to "provide the necessary conditions for a population to be healthy ]1]. Universal or national health systems view the right to health …
Revisiting the hospital-issued gown in hospitalizations from a locus of control and patient-centered care perspectives
Introduction: Patient-centered care (PCC) is the preferred health policy approach that emphasizes responding to individual patient preferences, wishes, and needs. PCC requires active patient engagement. While there has been extensive research on physicians' robes, there is limited research on hospital-issued patient gowns during hospitalizations. How does the gown affect the cognitive-emotional experience of hospitalized patients? How is the gown…
Professional burnout among expert physicians, patient‐focused care, and trust in top management
INTRODUCTION: Professional burnout in physicians is perceived as an inevitable occupational hazard inhibiting patient-focused care, the preferred approach of care, which enhances satisfaction of physicians with their work and improves clinical outcomes. Burnout jeopardizes the physical, mental, and emotional health of physicians, inhibiting high-quality care. Most individual-driven interventions and job-level interventions to reduce burnout prove…
The protective role of sense of coherence in resident physicians facing secondary trauma due to patient death in intensive care—A qualitative inquiry
The salutogenic paradigm is increasingly used in research and practice but remains to be investigated in secondary trauma of health professionals. This qualitative study explored the main anchor of salutogenics, the sense-of-coherence, as a coping mechanism among resident physicians facing secondary trauma due to continuous exposure to patient suffering and deaths. Participants were sixteen resident physicians from intensive care units at emergen…
Perceived Cultural Competence in Postpartum Units
INTRODUCTION: Globalization and rising immigration highlight the importance of culturally competent nursing care, yet global reports reveal persistent cultural insensitivity. This study explored how new mothers in postpartum units perceive nurses' cultural competence, examining its relationship to mothers' religious and cultural backgrounds and breastfeeding outcomes. METHOD: After obtaining ethical approval, 229 Israeli mothers (Hebrew or Arabic…
Medicine (17 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Nursing (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Narrative (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Health care (6 works) · Psychotherapist (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Public relations (5 works)