Ora Gilbar
Biographic Data
| ID | 3827259 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ora Gilbar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ora |
| FAMILY NAME | Gilbar |
| SIGNATURE | GILBAR O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Whose Doctorate is it Anyway? Guidelines for an Agreement Between Adviser and Doctoral Student Regarding the Advisement Process and Intellectual Property Rights
The effects of coping strategies on PTSD in victims of a terror attack and their spouses
Objectives: The study examined the effect of victims' and spouses' coping strategies on PTSD in victim-spouse dyads, using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM).Method: A total of 72 dyads consisting of injured victims who were exposed to terror attacks, and their spouses who were not injured, participated in the study based on lists prepared by the "One Family" organization in Israel. PTSD symptoms were assessed using PSS-SR, and coping…
Resilience and Distress
Does the MSW Curriculum Contribute to the Professional Specialization of the BSW-Educated Social Worker
The study evaluates the MSW program in the School of Social Work at the University of Haifa in comparison with the BSW program in terms of values, knowledge and skills, whose usefulness at work was also assessed. The two samples were MSW degree-holders and current MSW students. The results showed that the BSW program was rated as emphasizing values and knowledge more than the MSW program. No difference was found in relation to skills. The MSW pro…
Bereavement of spouse caregivers of cancer patients
This study assessed bereavement aspects among 69 widowed spouses (mean age = 61.1; 36.2% men) of deceased cancer patients. They completed questionnaires related to psychological distress as measured by the Brief Symptom Inventory (L. R. Derogatis, 1975a), psychosocial adjustment as measured by the Psychosocial Adjustment to Illness Scale (L. R. Derogatis, 1975b), grief as measured by the Texas Revised Inventory of Grief (T. Faschingbauer, S. Ziso…
Coping With Breast Cancer
OBJECTIVE: The objectives of this study were 1) to assess similarities and differences between patients with breast cancer and their spouses in terms of coping strategies and adjustment (psychosocial and psychological) to cancer and 2) to investigate the pattern of relationships between the patients' and spouses' coping strategies and between each of these strategies and the patient's adjustment to the illness using three types of models: patient…
Suicide Tendency in Cancer Patients
The aim of the study was to discover whether there are differences in suicide tendency in cancer patients during the various stages of the illness, i.e., diagnosis, adjuvant chemotherapy, and recurrence. The patients were being treated at two oncological medical centers in northern Israel. No statistical differences were found between 30 newly diagnosed cancer patients, 51 cancer patients receiving adjuvant chemotherapy, and 33 cancer patients wi…
Adjustment to Parkinson's Disease by Patients and Their Spouses
This study compares the psychosocial and psychological adjustment to the illness of thirty Parkinson's patients and their spouses. The main findings indicate that the patients' adjustment in both areas was significantly worse than their spouses', confirming one part of the authors' hypothesis. In terms of psychological adjustment specifically, the patients showed more symptoms of phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation, and psychoticism, while spouses …
How Daughters of Women With Breast Cancer Cope With the Threat of the Illness
Coping strategies and attitudes toward medical treatment of 45 daughters of women who had had breast cancer were compared with strategies (sense of coherence) and attitudes on a health opinion survey of 51 women with no such family history who were referred to a breast health clinic in northern Israel. The daughters of women with breast cancer ranked lower on sense of coherence than the women with no such history. They also were more actively inv…
Women with High Risk for Breast Cancer
This pilot study compared the psychological distress of 16 women with family histories of breast cancer (mother, sister, daughter, aunt) and 37 women with no such histories, all of whom were undergoing a regular checkup in a breast health clinic in northern Israel. Analysis indicated that women at high risk for breast cancer with a suspected syndrome experienced greater psychological distress than the women with no such histories
Introducing a biopsychosocial approach in an oncology institute
Coping with Loss
This study compares the adjustment to loss on the part of forty-three widows and twenty-four widowers, all former spouses of patients who died of cancer. The patients and the families were treated at the Unit for Home Care of the Oncological Institute in the Linn Clinic in Haifa as well as in various hospitals in Haifa for the terminally ill. The main findings indicate that widows of patients who died of cancer suffer more than widowers. This can…
Oncologists' attitudes to treatment of cancer patients
This study, based on questionnaire responses of 46 Israeli oncologists, explores the factors influencing these physicians' beliefs and decisions regarding chemo- and radiation therapy. A simple discriminant analysis identified five physician-related variables with a significant impact on the subjects' attitudes to treatment: age, sex, years of oncology experience, pity for the patient, and whether they believed all cancer patients suffer from pai…
Do Women with Inoperable Breast Cancer have a Psychological Profile
This study attempts to answer the following question: do women with inoperable breast cancer have a psychological profile? The study is based on a group of thirty cancer patients that is compared to a matched group of thirty operable breast cancer patients at two oncological institutes in the north of Israel. The participants completed both the Omega Vulnerable Scale and the Brief Symptom Inventory Scale (BSI). The statistical analysis of the psy…
The quality of life of cancer patients who refuse chemotherapy
Who Refuses Chemotherapy? A Profile
This study presents a profile of the patient who refuses chemotherapy. It is based on data from a group of 70 such cancer patients who were compared with a matched group of 70 cancer patients who completed their treatments at five oncological institutes in Israel. Despite the differences found on the Psychological Adjustment to Physical Illness Scale and the Brief Symptom Inventory scale, the model shows that the patient who refuses chemotherapy …
The effects of coping strategies on PTSD in victims of a terror attack and their spouses
Objectives: The study examined the effect of victims' and spouses' coping strategies on PTSD in victim-spouse dyads, using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM).Method: A total of 72 dyads consisting of injured victims who were exposed to terror attacks, and their spouses who were not injured, participated in the study based on lists prepared by the "One Family" organization in Israel. PTSD symptoms were assessed using PSS-SR, and coping…
Does the MSW Curriculum Contribute to the Professional Specialization of the BSW-Educated Social Worker
The study evaluates the MSW program in the School of Social Work at the University of Haifa in comparison with the BSW program in terms of values, knowledge and skills, whose usefulness at work was also assessed. The two samples were MSW degree-holders and current MSW students. The results showed that the BSW program was rated as emphasizing values and knowledge more than the MSW program. No difference was found in relation to skills. The MSW pro…
Whose Doctorate is it Anyway? Guidelines for an Agreement Between Adviser and Doctoral Student Regarding the Advisement Process and Intellectual Property Rights
Resilience and Distress
Introducing a biopsychosocial approach in an oncology institute
Who Refuses Chemotherapy? A Profile
This study presents a profile of the patient who refuses chemotherapy. It is based on data from a group of 70 such cancer patients who were compared with a matched group of 70 cancer patients who completed their treatments at five oncological institutes in Israel. Despite the differences found on the Psychological Adjustment to Physical Illness Scale and the Brief Symptom Inventory scale, the model shows that the patient who refuses chemotherapy …
Do Women with Inoperable Breast Cancer have a Psychological Profile
This study attempts to answer the following question: do women with inoperable breast cancer have a psychological profile? The study is based on a group of thirty cancer patients that is compared to a matched group of thirty operable breast cancer patients at two oncological institutes in the north of Israel. The participants completed both the Omega Vulnerable Scale and the Brief Symptom Inventory Scale (BSI). The statistical analysis of the psy…
The quality of life of cancer patients who refuse chemotherapy
Coping with Loss
This study compares the adjustment to loss on the part of forty-three widows and twenty-four widowers, all former spouses of patients who died of cancer. The patients and the families were treated at the Unit for Home Care of the Oncological Institute in the Linn Clinic in Haifa as well as in various hospitals in Haifa for the terminally ill. The main findings indicate that widows of patients who died of cancer suffer more than widowers. This can…
Oncologists' attitudes to treatment of cancer patients
This study, based on questionnaire responses of 46 Israeli oncologists, explores the factors influencing these physicians' beliefs and decisions regarding chemo- and radiation therapy. A simple discriminant analysis identified five physician-related variables with a significant impact on the subjects' attitudes to treatment: age, sex, years of oncology experience, pity for the patient, and whether they believed all cancer patients suffer from pai…
Introducing a biopsychosocial approach in an oncology institute
Women with High Risk for Breast Cancer
This pilot study compared the psychological distress of 16 women with family histories of breast cancer (mother, sister, daughter, aunt) and 37 women with no such histories, all of whom were undergoing a regular checkup in a breast health clinic in northern Israel. Analysis indicated that women at high risk for breast cancer with a suspected syndrome experienced greater psychological distress than the women with no such histories
How Daughters of Women With Breast Cancer Cope With the Threat of the Illness
Coping strategies and attitudes toward medical treatment of 45 daughters of women who had had breast cancer were compared with strategies (sense of coherence) and attitudes on a health opinion survey of 51 women with no such family history who were referred to a breast health clinic in northern Israel. The daughters of women with breast cancer ranked lower on sense of coherence than the women with no such history. They also were more actively inv…
Adjustment to Parkinson's Disease by Patients and Their Spouses
This study compares the psychosocial and psychological adjustment to the illness of thirty Parkinson's patients and their spouses. The main findings indicate that the patients' adjustment in both areas was significantly worse than their spouses', confirming one part of the authors' hypothesis. In terms of psychological adjustment specifically, the patients showed more symptoms of phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation, and psychoticism, while spouses …
Coping With Breast Cancer
OBJECTIVE: The objectives of this study were 1) to assess similarities and differences between patients with breast cancer and their spouses in terms of coping strategies and adjustment (psychosocial and psychological) to cancer and 2) to investigate the pattern of relationships between the patients' and spouses' coping strategies and between each of these strategies and the patient's adjustment to the illness using three types of models: patient…
Suicide Tendency in Cancer Patients
The aim of the study was to discover whether there are differences in suicide tendency in cancer patients during the various stages of the illness, i.e., diagnosis, adjuvant chemotherapy, and recurrence. The patients were being treated at two oncological medical centers in northern Israel. No statistical differences were found between 30 newly diagnosed cancer patients, 51 cancer patients receiving adjuvant chemotherapy, and 33 cancer patients wi…
Bereavement of spouse caregivers of cancer patients
This study assessed bereavement aspects among 69 widowed spouses (mean age = 61.1; 36.2% men) of deceased cancer patients. They completed questionnaires related to psychological distress as measured by the Brief Symptom Inventory (L. R. Derogatis, 1975a), psychosocial adjustment as measured by the Psychosocial Adjustment to Illness Scale (L. R. Derogatis, 1975b), grief as measured by the Texas Revised Inventory of Grief (T. Faschingbauer, S. Ziso…
Does the MSW Curriculum Contribute to the Professional Specialization of the BSW-Educated Social Worker
The study evaluates the MSW program in the School of Social Work at the University of Haifa in comparison with the BSW program in terms of values, knowledge and skills, whose usefulness at work was also assessed. The two samples were MSW degree-holders and current MSW students. The results showed that the BSW program was rated as emphasizing values and knowledge more than the MSW program. No difference was found in relation to skills. The MSW pro…
Resilience and Distress
Whose Doctorate is it Anyway? Guidelines for an Agreement Between Adviser and Doctoral Student Regarding the Advisement Process and Intellectual Property Rights
The effects of coping strategies on PTSD in victims of a terror attack and their spouses
Objectives: The study examined the effect of victims' and spouses' coping strategies on PTSD in victim-spouse dyads, using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM).Method: A total of 72 dyads consisting of injured victims who were exposed to terror attacks, and their spouses who were not injured, participated in the study based on lists prepared by the "One Family" organization in Israel. PTSD symptoms were assessed using PSS-SR, and coping…
Medicine (15 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Clinical Psychology (11 works) · Internal Medicine (10 works) · Psychiatry (10 works) · Cancer (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Internal Medicine (7 works) · Family Support in Illness (6 works) · Breast cancer (5 works)