Dariusz Walkowiak
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 2277820 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Dariusz Walkowiak |
| PRENOMES | Dariusz |
| SOBRENOME | Walkowiak |
| ASSINATURA | WALKOWIAK D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Poznan University of Medical Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8874-2401 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Knowledge and attitudes toward emergency contraception among pharmacy students and community pharmacists in Poland
Background: Emergency contraception (EC) remains a contentious issue shaped by ethical, legal, and cultural factors. Pharmacists are often involved in counselling and dispensing EC, placing them at the intersection of ethical, legal, and professional responsibilities. This study examined the knowledge, attitudes, and predictors of EC-related opinions among community pharmacists and pharmacy students in Poland. Methods: A cross-sectional web-based…
Ranking and clustering G20 healthcare systems
Objectives: To evaluate and compare healthcare system performance across G20 countries and Poland using multidimensional indicators of health outcomes, infrastructure, workforce capacity, and disease burden. The study examines structural patterns associated with high performance and implications for U. S. health system reform. Methods: We analysed 34 standardised indicators from WHO, OECD, and national databases. Z-score normalisation enabled cro…
Economic burden of recurrent low back pain among working-age adults in Poland
Introduction Health economic analysis is one of the solutions to optimize healthcare system management. Low back pain (LBP) appears to be increasing in both incidence and financial burden. According to the new pain definition, pain that recurs for more than 3 months should be classified as chronic. However, evidence on the prevalence and economic impact of recurrent LBP (rLBP) in the working-age population remains limited. The aim of this study w…
Mismatch between global patient blood management policy and nursing education
Background: Patient Blood Management (PBM) is an evidence-based approach to optimising transfusion practices and improving patient outcomes, yet its integration into nursing education remains limited and insufficiently explored across healthcare systems. This study examined nursing master's students' awareness, knowledge, attitudes, and educational needs related to PBM and non-blood management in a cross-national context. Methods: A cross-section…
The anatomy of AI implementation skepticism in Polish healthcare
Healthcare organizations struggle to scale AI, often attributing failures to a skills gap in the workforce. However, this mixed-methods study of Polish healthcare professionals reveals that professional roles, whether physician or executive, do not predict AI resistance well. Instead, resistance clusters into four psychographic profiles: Skeptics, Cost-Focused, Pragmatists, and Optimists. As its primary novel contribution, this research reveals t…
Validation of the Zarit Burden Interview for Polish caregivers of individuals with rare diseases
Overall, the results confirm that the three-factor model of the ZBI effectively captures caregiver burden and can serve as a reliable tool for assessing the impact of caregiving in diverse populations. The final section provides normative data for the three ZBI subscales among Polish caregivers of individuals with RDs Stratified by sex and age, these norms aid clinicians and researchers in contextualizing individual scores, identifying high-risk …
Assessing the impact of Dravet syndrome on caregivers’ quality of life and perceived burden in Poland
Since caring for a DS person affects every dimension of caregivers' lives, decreases their quality of life, and increases the feeling of burden while caring for DS patients, healthcare professionals should also monitor caregivers' physical, mental and emotional well-being. An integrated care system that includes the entire DS family should be created
Evolving threats in an unforgiving climate
This study examines how climate conditions influence life expectancy in Europe based on the impact of year-to-year temperature variability adjusted for economic changes. By focusing on a narrow range of ambient temperatures, we made the model sensitive to both extreme weather and moderately adverse conditions, such as low-temperature modulation of the winter infection season. Regional trend estimates from 1990 to 2019 were pooled to evaluate the …
Anthropocene mortality cycle convergence
The Anthropocene, shaped by human forces, upends the concept of a stable, natural mortality baseline. We analyzed European monthly mortality data using the STL model to isolate annual cycles, then applied sparse PCA to identify key dimensions. For countries with data since 1960, Levene's test confirmed a convergence of mortality cycles toward a European core pattern, stabilizing in the 21st century. Three axes emerged: a temporal shift (spring mo…
When Biobanks Meet Religion
While biobanking is expanding globally, the empirical evidence concerning the impact of religion on future healthcare professionals’ awareness and willingness to donate biospecimens for biobank research is lacking. To understand how medical students’ religious beliefs can fuel their questions regarding how biospecimens would be stored, cared for, and used, we conducted a survey among 1500 medical students at Poznań University of Medical Sciences.…
“In God We Trust”
Most children with a rare disease are cared for by their family members but parenting such a child is extremely demanding due to the complexity and severity of symptoms, with serious physical, emotional, social, and financial consequences for caregivers. Although religion may serve as a positive coping strategy, little is known about its role in helping caregivers manage the stress related to the burden of caregiving in Poland. Therefore, we surv…
To vaccinate or to isolate? Establishing which intervention leads to measurable mortality reduction during the Covid-19 Delta wave in Poland
Background: During the Delta variant COVID-19 wave in Poland there were serious regional differences in vaccination rates and discrepancies in the enforcement of pandemic preventive measures, which allowed us to assess the relative effectiveness of the policies implemented. Methods: Creating a model that would predict mortality based on vaccination rates among the most vulnerable groups and the timing of the wave peak enabled us to calculate to w…
Caring for Children with Dravet Syndrome
While Polish studies focus on the symptoms, causes and treatment of people suffering from Dravet syndrome (DS), much less is known about the situation of the family caregivers of DS children. This study was designed to explore the experiences, daily challenges and needs related to caring for DS children. An anonymous self-administered online questionnaire was developed. The survey was completed by 75 family caregivers affiliated with the Associat…
The Awareness of Rare Diseases Among Medical Students and Practicing Physicians in the Republic of Kazakhstan. An Exploratory Study
Although national plans or strategies for rare diseases (RDs) have been implemented in many jurisdictions research show that one of the main barriers RD patients face during medical encounter is medical professionals' low level of knowledge and experience on the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of RD patients. Consequently, there is a need to increase the standards of medical education in the field of RDs and to revise the undergraduate an…
Volunteering in the front line of the Ukrainian refugee crisis
This study aims to analyse the experiences and motivations of volunteers who supported Ukrainian refugees who fled to Poland. Our study was conducted among 196 volunteers in Poznan, Poland who answered questions regarding their experiences with voluntary service during the current refugee crisis and the reasons they became involved in volunteer efforts. We found that although the Polish state had no prior experience in welcoming refugees on a mas…
Phenylketonuria Patients’ and Their Caregivers’ Perception of the Pandemic Lockdown
The first pandemic lockdown dramatically impacted many aspects of everyday life, including healthcare systems. The purpose of this study was to identify problems of patients with phenylketonuria (PKU) and their parents/caregivers during that time. We aimed to analyse potential differences in the self-reported compliance and characteristics of contacts with a doctor/dietitian before and during the pandemic lockdown and the perception of access to …
Underestimation in Reporting Excess Covid-19 Death Data in Poland during the First Three Pandemic Waves
The issue whether official Polish COVID-19 death statistics correctly reflect the actual number of deaths is a contentious issue in public discourse and an important policy-wise question in Poland although it has not been the subject of thorough research so far. There had been clearly elevated excess mortality-5100 (death rate of 2.3 per 10,000) during the first wave, 77,500 (21.0 per 10,000) during the second one, and 48,900 (13.5 per 10,000) in…
Medical Students' Voluntary Service During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Poland
From the very first moment coronavirus struck, medical students volunteered to support healthcare professionals' fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. To learn more about future healthcare professionals' volunteering during such an outbreak, we conducted a survey among 417 students of Poznan University of Medical Sciences. Our findings suggest that although numerous studies demonstrate that traditional, value-based volunteering is decreasing, and …
Does Religion Influence the Motivations of Future Healthcare Professionals to Volunteer During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Poland? An Exploratory Study
This study was designed to determine the relation between religion and the motivations of future healthcare professionals to volunteer during the COVID-19 outbreak in Poland . Data were collected from 417 healthcare students via an online questionnaire. The results indicated that although students’ religiosity was not a significant predictor of volunteering during the pandemic, it played a key role in determining their motivations to join the fig…
The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Perception of Health and Treatment-Related Issues among Patients with Phenylketonuria in Poland—The Results of a National Online Survey
There is agreement that the pandemic has affected the healthcare system and behaviour of patients. This study aims to identify problems encountered by patients with phenylketonuria (PKU) and their parents/caregivers during the six-week pandemic lockdown in Poland (15 March to 30 April 2020). To determine the factors that influenced health and treatment-related issues, as well as the respondents' perception of the impact of the pandemic, study par…
Mental Well-Being (Depression, Loneliness, Insomnia, Daily Life Fatigue) during Covid-19 Related Home-Confinement—A Study from Poland
The COVID-19 pandemic is a great threat to both physical and mental health as it may lead to psychological stress connected with an economic crisis, threat of unemployment, or fear of losing family members. Emerging data shows that the general public may be vulnerable to the pandemic-related stress and experience frequently prevalent anxiety. A study involving 471 subjects (85.6% female) was conducted online during the COVID-19 pandemic. We used …
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Mental Well-Being (Depression, Loneliness, Insomnia, Daily Life Fatigue) during Covid-19 Related Home-Confinement—A Study from Poland
The COVID-19 pandemic is a great threat to both physical and mental health as it may lead to psychological stress connected with an economic crisis, threat of unemployment, or fear of losing family members. Emerging data shows that the general public may be vulnerable to the pandemic-related stress and experience frequently prevalent anxiety. A study involving 471 subjects (85.6% female) was conducted online during the COVID-19 pandemic. We used …
Medical Students' Voluntary Service During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Poland
From the very first moment coronavirus struck, medical students volunteered to support healthcare professionals' fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. To learn more about future healthcare professionals' volunteering during such an outbreak, we conducted a survey among 417 students of Poznan University of Medical Sciences. Our findings suggest that although numerous studies demonstrate that traditional, value-based volunteering is decreasing, and …
Does Religion Influence the Motivations of Future Healthcare Professionals to Volunteer During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Poland? An Exploratory Study
This study was designed to determine the relation between religion and the motivations of future healthcare professionals to volunteer during the COVID-19 outbreak in Poland . Data were collected from 417 healthcare students via an online questionnaire. The results indicated that although students’ religiosity was not a significant predictor of volunteering during the pandemic, it played a key role in determining their motivations to join the fig…
The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Perception of Health and Treatment-Related Issues among Patients with Phenylketonuria in Poland—The Results of a National Online Survey
There is agreement that the pandemic has affected the healthcare system and behaviour of patients. This study aims to identify problems encountered by patients with phenylketonuria (PKU) and their parents/caregivers during the six-week pandemic lockdown in Poland (15 March to 30 April 2020). To determine the factors that influenced health and treatment-related issues, as well as the respondents' perception of the impact of the pandemic, study par…
The Awareness of Rare Diseases Among Medical Students and Practicing Physicians in the Republic of Kazakhstan. An Exploratory Study
Although national plans or strategies for rare diseases (RDs) have been implemented in many jurisdictions research show that one of the main barriers RD patients face during medical encounter is medical professionals' low level of knowledge and experience on the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of RD patients. Consequently, there is a need to increase the standards of medical education in the field of RDs and to revise the undergraduate an…
Volunteering in the front line of the Ukrainian refugee crisis
This study aims to analyse the experiences and motivations of volunteers who supported Ukrainian refugees who fled to Poland. Our study was conducted among 196 volunteers in Poznan, Poland who answered questions regarding their experiences with voluntary service during the current refugee crisis and the reasons they became involved in volunteer efforts. We found that although the Polish state had no prior experience in welcoming refugees on a mas…
Phenylketonuria Patients’ and Their Caregivers’ Perception of the Pandemic Lockdown
The first pandemic lockdown dramatically impacted many aspects of everyday life, including healthcare systems. The purpose of this study was to identify problems of patients with phenylketonuria (PKU) and their parents/caregivers during that time. We aimed to analyse potential differences in the self-reported compliance and characteristics of contacts with a doctor/dietitian before and during the pandemic lockdown and the perception of access to …
Underestimation in Reporting Excess Covid-19 Death Data in Poland during the First Three Pandemic Waves
The issue whether official Polish COVID-19 death statistics correctly reflect the actual number of deaths is a contentious issue in public discourse and an important policy-wise question in Poland although it has not been the subject of thorough research so far. There had been clearly elevated excess mortality-5100 (death rate of 2.3 per 10,000) during the first wave, 77,500 (21.0 per 10,000) during the second one, and 48,900 (13.5 per 10,000) in…
To vaccinate or to isolate? Establishing which intervention leads to measurable mortality reduction during the Covid-19 Delta wave in Poland
Background: During the Delta variant COVID-19 wave in Poland there were serious regional differences in vaccination rates and discrepancies in the enforcement of pandemic preventive measures, which allowed us to assess the relative effectiveness of the policies implemented. Methods: Creating a model that would predict mortality based on vaccination rates among the most vulnerable groups and the timing of the wave peak enabled us to calculate to w…
Caring for Children with Dravet Syndrome
While Polish studies focus on the symptoms, causes and treatment of people suffering from Dravet syndrome (DS), much less is known about the situation of the family caregivers of DS children. This study was designed to explore the experiences, daily challenges and needs related to caring for DS children. An anonymous self-administered online questionnaire was developed. The survey was completed by 75 family caregivers affiliated with the Associat…
When Biobanks Meet Religion
While biobanking is expanding globally, the empirical evidence concerning the impact of religion on future healthcare professionals’ awareness and willingness to donate biospecimens for biobank research is lacking. To understand how medical students’ religious beliefs can fuel their questions regarding how biospecimens would be stored, cared for, and used, we conducted a survey among 1500 medical students at Poznań University of Medical Sciences.…
“In God We Trust”
Most children with a rare disease are cared for by their family members but parenting such a child is extremely demanding due to the complexity and severity of symptoms, with serious physical, emotional, social, and financial consequences for caregivers. Although religion may serve as a positive coping strategy, little is known about its role in helping caregivers manage the stress related to the burden of caregiving in Poland. Therefore, we surv…
Validation of the Zarit Burden Interview for Polish caregivers of individuals with rare diseases
Overall, the results confirm that the three-factor model of the ZBI effectively captures caregiver burden and can serve as a reliable tool for assessing the impact of caregiving in diverse populations. The final section provides normative data for the three ZBI subscales among Polish caregivers of individuals with RDs Stratified by sex and age, these norms aid clinicians and researchers in contextualizing individual scores, identifying high-risk …
Assessing the impact of Dravet syndrome on caregivers’ quality of life and perceived burden in Poland
Since caring for a DS person affects every dimension of caregivers' lives, decreases their quality of life, and increases the feeling of burden while caring for DS patients, healthcare professionals should also monitor caregivers' physical, mental and emotional well-being. An integrated care system that includes the entire DS family should be created
Evolving threats in an unforgiving climate
This study examines how climate conditions influence life expectancy in Europe based on the impact of year-to-year temperature variability adjusted for economic changes. By focusing on a narrow range of ambient temperatures, we made the model sensitive to both extreme weather and moderately adverse conditions, such as low-temperature modulation of the winter infection season. Regional trend estimates from 1990 to 2019 were pooled to evaluate the …
Anthropocene mortality cycle convergence
The Anthropocene, shaped by human forces, upends the concept of a stable, natural mortality baseline. We analyzed European monthly mortality data using the STL model to isolate annual cycles, then applied sparse PCA to identify key dimensions. For countries with data since 1960, Levene's test confirmed a convergence of mortality cycles toward a European core pattern, stabilizing in the 21st century. Three axes emerged: a temporal shift (spring mo…
Knowledge and attitudes toward emergency contraception among pharmacy students and community pharmacists in Poland
Background: Emergency contraception (EC) remains a contentious issue shaped by ethical, legal, and cultural factors. Pharmacists are often involved in counselling and dispensing EC, placing them at the intersection of ethical, legal, and professional responsibilities. This study examined the knowledge, attitudes, and predictors of EC-related opinions among community pharmacists and pharmacy students in Poland. Methods: A cross-sectional web-based…
Ranking and clustering G20 healthcare systems
Objectives: To evaluate and compare healthcare system performance across G20 countries and Poland using multidimensional indicators of health outcomes, infrastructure, workforce capacity, and disease burden. The study examines structural patterns associated with high performance and implications for U. S. health system reform. Methods: We analysed 34 standardised indicators from WHO, OECD, and national databases. Z-score normalisation enabled cro…
Economic burden of recurrent low back pain among working-age adults in Poland
Introduction Health economic analysis is one of the solutions to optimize healthcare system management. Low back pain (LBP) appears to be increasing in both incidence and financial burden. According to the new pain definition, pain that recurs for more than 3 months should be classified as chronic. However, evidence on the prevalence and economic impact of recurrent LBP (rLBP) in the working-age population remains limited. The aim of this study w…
Mismatch between global patient blood management policy and nursing education
Background: Patient Blood Management (PBM) is an evidence-based approach to optimising transfusion practices and improving patient outcomes, yet its integration into nursing education remains limited and insufficiently explored across healthcare systems. This study examined nursing master's students' awareness, knowledge, attitudes, and educational needs related to PBM and non-blood management in a cross-national context. Methods: A cross-section…
The anatomy of AI implementation skepticism in Polish healthcare
Healthcare organizations struggle to scale AI, often attributing failures to a skills gap in the workforce. However, this mixed-methods study of Polish healthcare professionals reveals that professional roles, whether physician or executive, do not predict AI resistance well. Instead, resistance clusters into four psychographic profiles: Skeptics, Cost-Focused, Pragmatists, and Optimists. As its primary novel contribution, this research reveals t…
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