Vasiliki Leventakou

Biographic Data

ID5500829
NAMEVasiliki Leventakou
GIVEN NAMESVasiliki
FAMILY NAMELeventakou
SIGNATURELEVENTAKOU V
AFFILIATIONSMinistry of Public Health
ORCID0000-0002-0748-2984
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS5
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX1

  • Feasibility and Acceptability of a Telephone-Based Smoking Cessation Intervention for Qatari Residents

    Open AccessVasiliki Leventakou, Mohammed Al Thani et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    The steady increase in smoking rates has led to a call for wide-reaching and scalable interventions for smoking cessation in Qatar. This study examined the feasibility and acceptability of an evidence-based smoking cessation program delivered by telephone for Qatari residents. A total of 248 participants were recruited through primary care centers and received five weekly scheduled proactive behavioral counseling calls from personnel trained in t…

  • A Telephone-Based Tobacco Cessation Program in the State of Qatar

    Open AccessMohammed Al Thani, Vasiliki Leventakou et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    In Qatar, tobacco is the leading preventable cause of death and disease. Telephone-based interventions for smoking are cost-effective and scalable interventions that are effective in promoting smoking behavior change. While many countries have implemented these services within their tobacco control programs, there is a distinct dearth of a telephone-based smoking cessation intervention that is adapted and tailored to meet the needs of people who …

  • A birth cohort study in the Middle East

    Open AccessEman Sadoun, Vasiliki Leventakou et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2017

    The present study provides invaluable insights into a wide range of early life factors affecting human health. With a geographical focus on the Middle East, it will be a resource for information to the wider scientific community and will allow the formulation of effective policies with a primary focus on public health interventions for maternal and child health

  • Relative validity of an FFQ for pre-school children in the mother–child ‘Rhea’ birth cohort in Crete, Greece

    Open AccessVasiliki Leventakou, Vaggelis Georgiou et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2015

    Objective To examine the relative validity of an FFQ based on parental report for pre-school children in the mother–child ‘Rhea’ birth cohort. Design The children’s mothers completed an FFQ that referred to the children’s dietary intake for the previous year by telephone interview. Mothers completed also three food records, two on weekdays and one on a weekend day. Spearman correlation coefficients were calculated for the energy-adjusted values. …

  • Breastfeeding duration and cognitive, language and motor development at 18 months of age

    Vasiliki Leventakou, Theano Roumeliotaki et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2015Cited by: 5References: 48

    BACKGROUND: Breast feeding duration has been associated with improved cognitive development in children. However, few population-based prospective studies have evaluated dose-response relationships of breastfeeding duration with language and motor development at early ages, and results are discrepant. METHODS: The study uses data from the prospective mother-child cohort ('Rhea' study) in Crete, Greece. 540 mother-child pairs were included in the …