The Cheryl Spencer Institute for Nursing Research
Tel: 04-6647904 | email: nurs_res@univ.haifa.ac.il
Prof. Efrat Dagan
Research Interests
Higher Education
Recent Publications
Research Interests
- Hereditary breast-ovarian cancer
- Cancer genetics
- Human genetics
- Genetic susceptibility to late onset diseases
- Genetic counseling
Higher Education
| Date of Degree | Degree | Name of Institution and Department | Period of Study |
| 1988 | B.N., R.N. | Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Nursing Nursing | 1984 – 1988 |
1993 | M.Sc. | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa Faculty of Medical Sciences Pharmacology | 1989 – 1993 |
2000 | Ph.D. | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa Faculty of Medical Sciences Human Genetics | 1995 – 2000 |
| 2004 | Genetic Counselor License | Institute of Human Genetics, Rambam Health Care Campus, MOH | 2000 – 2004 |
Recent Publications
- Melikhan-Revzin S, Kurolap A, Dagan E, Mory A, Gershoni-Baruch R. (2015). Hereditary Lymphedema. Lymphatic Research & Biology. 13(2):107-11.
- Dagan E, Schlesinger I, Ayoub M, Mory A, Peretz-Aharon J, Gershoni-Baruch R. (2015). The contribution of Niemann-Pick SMPD1 mutations to Parkinson disease in Ashkenazi Jews. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders. 21(9):1067-71.
- Dagan E, Adir V, Schlesinger I, Borochowitz Z, Ayoub M, Mory A, Peretz-Aharon J, Gershoni-Baruch R. (2015). SMPD1 mutations and Parkinson disease. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders. 21(10):1296-7. Response to comment. doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2015.08.019.
- Dubovi I, Sharona T. Levy, Dagan E. (2015). The contribution of computerized simulation to medication calculation learning. Guf Yeda. 13:4-12. [In Hebrew].
- Dagan E, Schlesinger I, Kurolap A, Ayoub M, Nassar M, Peretz-Aharon J, Gershoni-Baruch R. (2016). LRRK2, GBA and SMPD1 Founder Mutations and Parkinson’s Disease in Ashkenazi Jews. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders. 23;42(1-2):1-6.
- Dagan E, Gershoni-Baruch R, Kurolap A, Fried G. (2016). Early onset breast cancer in Ashkenazi women carriers of founder BRCA1/2 mutations: beyond 10 years of follow up. European Journal of Cancer Care (Engl.). doi: 10.1111/ecc.12594.
- Dubovi, I., Levy, S.T. & Dagan, E. (2017). Now I Know How! The Learning Process of Medication Administration among Nursing Students with Virtual Reality Simulation. Computers and Education. 113:16-27.
- Dubovi, I., Levy, S.T. & Dagan, E. (2017) Pushing Syringes, Diluting Solutions, and Splicing Tablets to Improve Proportional Reasoning: Nursing Students’ Situated Simulation-Based Learning. International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education. 1-19. Doi:10.1007/s10763-017-9842-2.
- Drach-Zahavy A, Broyer C, Dagan E. (2017). Similarity and accuracy of mental models formed during nursing handovers: A concept mapping approach. International Journal of Nursing Studies. 74:24-33.
- Dubovi, I., Dagan, E., Sader-Mazbar, O., Nasar, L., & Levy, S.T. (2018). Nursing Students Learning with Complexity-Based Computerized Models the Pharmacology of Diabetes Mellitus: A Quasi-Experimental Study. Nurse Education Today. 61:175-181.
- Dagan E, Friedman E, Birenbaum-Carmeli D, Feldman B. (2017). Performing and Declining PGD: Accounts of Jewish Israeli Women Who Carry a BRCA1/2 Mutation or Partners of Male Mutation Carriers. Journal of Genetic Counseling. doi: 10.1007/s10897-017-0087-6.
- Dagan E, Birenbaum-Carmeli D, Modiano Gattegno S. (2017). “My choice”: breast cancer patients recollect doctors fertility preservation recommendations. Support Care Cancer. doi: 10.1007/s00520-017-3648-1.
- Dubovi, I., Dagan, E., Sader-Mazbar, O., Nasar, L., & Levy, S.T. (2018). Nursing Students Learning with Complexity-Based Computerized Models the Pharmacology of Diabetes Mellitus: A Quasi-Experimental Study. Nurse Education Today. 61:175-181.
- Cohen-Castel O, Dagan E, Keinan-Boker L, Shadmi E (2018). Reliability and validity of the Hebrew version of the Nijmegen Continuity Questionnaire for measuring patients’ perceived continuity of care in oral anti-cancer therapy. European Journal of Cancer Care (Engl.). 27(6):e12913.
- Cohen Castel O, Shadmi E, Keinan-Boker L, Granot T, Karkabi K, Dagan E. (2019). The association between patients’ perceived continuity of care and beliefs about oral anticancer treatment. Supportive Care Cancer. 27 (9): 3545-3553.
- Dagan E, Dubovi I, Levy M, Zuckerman Levin N, Levy S. T. (2019) Adherence to diabetes care: knowledge of biochemical processes has a high impact on glycemic control among adolescents with type-1 diabetes. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 75 (11), 2701-2709.
- Mor Saban, Efrat Dagan, Anat Drach-Zahavy. (2019) The relationship between mindfulness, triage accuracy, and patient satisfaction in the emergency department: A moderation-mediation model. Journal of Emergency Nursing. 45 (6), 644-660.
- Dubovi I, Levy ST, Levy M, Zuckerman Levin N., Dagan E. (2020) Glycemic control in adolescents with type 1 diabetes: Are computerized simulations effective learning tools? Pediatric Diabetes. 21 (2), 328-338.
- Mor Saban, Anat Drach-Zahavy, Efrat Dagan. (2021). The Effects of a Novel Mindfulness-based Intervention on Nurses’ State Mindfulness and Patient Satisfaction in the Emergency Department Journal of Emergency Nursing. 47(3):412-425.
- Mor Saban, Anat Drach-Zahavy, Efrat Dagan. (2021). A Novel Reflective Practice Intervention Improves Quality of Care in the Emergency Department. International Emergency Nursing. 56: 100977.
- Orit Cohen Castel, Efrat Dagan, Lital Keinan–Boker, Marcelo low Efrat Shadmi. (2021). Patients’ perceived continuity of care and adherence to oral anticancer therapy: a prospective cohort mediation study. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 36(6), 1525-1532.
- Tsvitman I, Cohen Castel Orit, Dagan E. (2021). Perceived patient-centered care is associated with reduced symptoms distress in cancer patients undergoing anti-cancer treatment. Supportive Care in Cancer, 29(4), 6279-6287.