Dr Lukas Pitel

Research Fellow in Cancer Statistics

Faculty and Department

Faculty of Health Sciences
Hull York Medical School

Biography Outputs Research/PhD

Summary

Dr. Lukas Pitel obtained his PhD in Social Medicine from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He joined Hull York Medical School in 2019 from the Slovak Academy of Sciences, where he worked as researcher at the Institute of Experimental Psychology. Main focus of his previous work were social and psychological determinants of health-related behaviours as well as validation of psychometric measures. His current research interests include various determinants of cancer morbidity and cancer awareness.

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Journal Article

Breathlessness limiting exertion in very old adults: findings from the Newcastle 85+ study

Johnson, M. J., Pitel, L., Currow, D. C., Forbes, C., Soyiri, I., & Robinson, L. (2023). Breathlessness limiting exertion in very old adults: findings from the Newcastle 85+ study. Age and ageing, 52(9), Article afad155. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afad155

Ireneous Soyiri Miriam Johnson Cindy Forbes

Improving asthma care through implementation of the SENTINEL programme: findings from the pilot site

Crooks, M. G., Crowther, L., Cummings, H., Cohen, J., Huang, C., Pitel, L., Pearson, M., Morice, A., Turgoose, J., Faruqi, S., Watt, M., Morris, T., & Xu, Y. (2023). Improving asthma care through implementation of the SENTINEL programme: findings from the pilot site. ERJ Open Research, 9(3), Article 00685-2022. https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00685-2022

Alyn Morice Michael Crooks Chao Huang Mark Pearson Judith Cohen John Turgoose

The irrational health beliefs scale and health behaviors in a non-clinical population

Pitel, L., & Ballová Mikušková, E. (in press). The irrational health beliefs scale and health behaviors in a non-clinical population. European Journal of Health Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1027/2512-8442/a000075

Research interests

Main focus of Dr. Lukas Pitel’s previous work were social and psychological determinants of health-related behaviours as well as validation of psychometric measures. His current research interests include various determinants of cancer morbidity and cancer awareness