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Prof. Stefanos Mantzoukas

PhD, MSc, BSc, BNurs, RN, FEANS

Published Work

Mantzoukas S., 2008. A review of evidence based practice, nursing research and reflection – levelling the hierarchy. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 17(2), 214-223.

Mantzoukas S. 2004. Issues of representation in within qualitative inquiry. Qualitative Health Research, 14(7), 994-1007.

Mantzoukas S. & Watkinson S. 2007. Advanced nursing practice: Reviewing the literature and developing the generic features. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 16, 28-37.

Mantzoukas S. & Jasper M. 2004. Reflective practice and daily ward reality: A covert power game. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 13(8), 925-933.

Mantzoukas S., 2009. The research evidences published in high impact nursing journals between 2000-2006: a quantitative content analysis. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 46(4), 479-489.

Mantzoukas S. 2005. The inclusion of bias in reflective and reflexive research: A necessary prerequisite for securing validity. Journal of Research in Nursing, 10(3), 279-295.

Mantzoukas S., 2007. Reflection and problem/enquiry based learning: Confluences and contradictions. Reflective Practice, 8(2), 239-251.

Mantzoukas S. & Jasper M., 2008. Types of nursing knowledge used to guide care of hospitalised patients. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 62(3), 318-326.

Mantzoukas S. & Watkinson S., 2008. Re-describing reflective practice and evidence-based practice discourses. International Journal of Nursing Practice, 14(2), 129-134.

Gouva Μ., Paschou Α., Kaltsouda Α., Dragioti Ε., Paralikas Τ., Mantzoukas S. & Kotrotsiou E., 2016. Psychometric properties and factor structure of the Greek version of the Other As Shamer Scale (OAS). Interscientific Health Care, 8(4), 159-164.

Mantzoukas S., 2007. The evidence-based practice ideology. Nursing Philosophy, 8, 244-255.

Mantzoukas S., 2012. Exploring ethnographic genres and developing validity appraisal tools. Journal of Research in Nursing, 17(5), 420-435.

Gouva M., Kaltsouda A., Paschou A., Dragioti E., Kotrotsiou S., Mantzoukas S. & Kotrotsiou E., 2016. Reliability and Validity of the Greek Version of the Experience of Shame Scale (ESS). Interscientific Health Care, 8(4), 151-158.

Gouva M., Mantzoukas S., Mitona E. & Damigos D., 2009. Understanding nurses’ psychosomatic complications that relate to the practice of nursing. Nursing and Health Sciences, 11(2), 110-116.

Mantzoukas S., 2008. Facilitating research students in formulating qualitative research questions. Nurse Education Today, 28(3), 371-377.

Mantzoukas S. et al., 2021. Exploring the Impact of Shame on Health-Related Quality of Life in Older Individuals. Journal of Nursing (Scholarship, 53 (4), 439-448

Tommasini C., Dobrowolska B., Zarzycka D., Bacatum C., Bruun A. M. G., Korsath D., Roel S., Jansen M., Milling T., Deschamps A., Mantzoukas S., Mantzouka C. & Palese A., 2017. Competence evaluation processes for nursing students abroad: Findings from an international case study. Nurse Education Today, 51, 41-47.

Lafiatoglou P., Ellis-Hill C., Gouva M., Ploumis A., Mantzoukas S., 2023. Older adults' lived experiences of physical rehabilitation for acquired brain injury and their perceptions of well-being: A qualitative phenomenological study. Journal of Clinical Nurse , (early view).

Mantzoukas S., Schärli-Lim S., Kelly H., Falk K., Frey S., Van Der Aa C., 2021. The impact of The Florence Network in advancing nursing and midwifery in Europe. Nurse Education in Practice, 50, 1-5.

Lafiatoglou P., Ellis-Hill C., Gouva M., Ploumis A. & Mantzoukas S., 2022. A systematic review of the qualitative literature on older individuals’ experiences of care and well-being during physical rehabilitation for acquired brain injury. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 78, 377-394

Zygouri I., Cowdell F., Ploumis A., Gouva M. & Mantzoukas S. 2021. Gendered experiences of providing informal care for older people: A systematic and thematic synthesis. BMC Health Service Research, 21(730), 1-15.

Nyede A., Ellis-Hill C., Mantzoukas S., 2023. A sense of control and wellbeing in older people living with fraility: A scoping review. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, early online publication

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Bender M & Mantzoukas S, 2022. Some thoughts about the future of nursing and/in philosophy. Nursing Philosophy, 23(2), 1-2.

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Dragioti E., Tsartsalis D., Mentis M., Mantzoukas S., Gouva M., 2022. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of hospital staff: An umbrella review of 44 meta-analyses. International Journal of Nursing Studies, (early online publication)

Dimou K., Dragioti E., Tsitsas G., Mantzoukas S., Gouva M.,, 2023. Association of personality traits and self-care behaviors in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A systematic review and meta-analysis. DOI: 10.7759/cureus.50714.

Zagorianakou N., Mantzoukas S., Tatsis F., Tsiloni1 E., Georgakis S., Nakou A., Gouva M.,, Dragioti E., 2023. Associations between physical activity and health outcomes in clinical and non-clinical populations: A systematic meta-umbrella review. F1000Research, 12, 1152.

Christou G. A., Vlahos A. P., Christou K. A., Mantzoukas S. Drougias C. A., Christodoulou D. K., 2022. Prolonged QT interval in athletes: Distinguishing between pathology and physiology. Cardiology, doi: 10.1159/000526385

Zagorianakou N.,, Tsitsas G., Dragioti E., Konstanti Z., Mantzoukas S.,, Gouva M.,, 2023. Psychometric and factor analysis of the Greek version of the SpREUK questionnaire. Creative Education, 14, 1669-1686

Mazeta D., Gouva M., Economou A., Gerogianni I., Mantzoukas S., Gourgoulianis K., 2023. Identifying the relationship between economic prosperity and quality of life in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients. Cureus, DOI: 10.7759/cureus.40624.

Mantzoukas S. 2007. Developing a scholarly forum at a teaching University in the UK: A case study. Teaching and Learning in Nursing, 2(2), 38-42.

Dimou K., Batiridou A., Tatsis F., Georgakis S., Konstanti Z., Papathanakos G., Mantzoukas S., Dragioti E., Gouva M.,, Koulouras V., 2023. Patients dreams and unreal experiences during intensive care unit (ICU) hospitalization. DOI: 10.7759/cureus.51588

Natsikou Th., Damigos D., Mantzoukas S., Gouva M., 2016. Phenomenological study for the psychosocial effect of early and repetitive contact with death on funeral directors’ children. International Journal of Novel Research in Healthcare and Nursing, 3(2), 24-34.

Zampira I.,Rapti A.,Tsoutsi A., Gouva M., Mantzoukas S., 2019. A systematic literature review of OSCE’s potential to standardise the assessment of undergraduate nurses’ clinical competences. Interscientific Health Care, 10(4), 17-26.

Mantzoukas S. & Mantzouka C., 2010. The introduction of reflection in Greek nursing education: beyond positivism, just before postmodernism. Interscientific Health Care, 2(1), 18-27.

Konstanti Ζ., Gouva M., Mantzoukas S., Petridis A., Eftichidou E., Mavreas B. & Damigos D., 2010. An exploratory study on nurses and doctors attitudes and knowledge of pain management in a Greek hospital. Interscientific Health Care, 2(1), 37-46.

Mantzoukas S., 2009. Evidence based practice. Nursing (Greek journal) 48(1), 6-17.

Mantzoukas S. & Gouva M., 2010. Nursing Burnout in the Era of Evidence Based Practice. In McLaughlin C., et al., “Nursing Issues: Psychiatric Nursing, Geriatric Nursing and Nursing Burnout”. Nova Science Publishers, Inc, NY.

Mantzoukas S. & Zoi L., 2008. The Roper-Logan-Tierney nursing model and its implementation in practice. Nursing (Greek journal) 47(1), 21-36.

Mantzoukas S. 2002. Nursing Images of the 19th Century in the U.K.: The Analysis and the Lessons learned for the Present and the Future of Nursing. ICU & Nursing, 10(2), 1-27.

Mantzoukas S., 2007. Qualitative research in six easy steps: the epistemology, the methods and the presentation. Nursing (Greek journal) 46(2), 176-187.

Mantzoukas S. 2003. Research and conceptual frameworks: The various types and their utility for nurse researchers. Nursing (Greek journal) 42(4), 405-413.

Mantzoukas S. 2002. Marx, Habermas and nursing science: Worlds in a crossroad. Nursing (Greek journal) 41(2), 138-146.

Mantzoukas S. 1999. Phenomenology and nursing research. Nursing (Greek journal) 38 (2), 129-134

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