Sarantaki Antigoni

Dr. Antigoni Sarantaki, completed her Bachelor of Science at Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Greece-Department of Midwifery and completed her Master of Science from University of Surrey, School of Health Sciences, at Guildford, United Kingdom. She achieved her Ph.D. From Dept. of Medicine (Sector of Social Medicine-Psychiatry and Neurology), School of Health Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, 06/2016. Doctoral Thesis: “Study of family relationships and psycho-emotional development of children born after assisted reproduction” Her research and teaching focuses on women’s mental health, pregnancy & labour, infertility, assisted reproduction, family dynamics, semiology.

The focus of her current research interests includes perinatal care and counseling for women with physical and/or mental impairments.

Over the course of her academic career, Dr Sarantaki has published a number of original articles and reviews, in addition to overseeing and editing several undergraduate & post-graduate studies and manuscripts. Her specific fields of academic interest, include disability and pregnancy, maternal infant health issues, infertility, family dynamics.

She is a member of several professional societies, including Hellenic Midwives Association, European Midwives Association & International Midwives Association.

Current Research Lines: Transition to motherhood for women with disability, male and female infertility related physical, social and mental disorders, family dynamics, parenting.

Highlighted publications:
• K. Lykeridou, K. Gourounti, A. Sarantaki, Z. Roupa, G. Iatrakis, S. Zervoudis, G. Vaslamatzis. What kind of care and support do infertile women undergoing fertility treatment in Greece expect? A questionnaire survey (2010). Clinical & Experimental Obstetrics & Gynecology; 37(3):201-8
• Katerina Lykeridou , Kleanthi Gourounti , Antigoni Sarantaki , Dimitrios Loutradis, Grigorios Vaslamatzis , Anna Deltsidou (2011) Occupational social class, coping responses and infertility‐related stress of women undergoing infertility treatment. Journal of Clinical Nursing. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2702.2011.03696.x
• Sarantaki A., Anagnostopoulos D., Loutradis D., Vaslamatzis G. (2015) Families created by in vitro fertilization (IVF) in Greece: Parenting stress and parental bonding at adolescence, International Archives of Medicine, Dec.; vol 8; http://dx.doi.org/10.3823/1826
• Koutelekos, I., Vassalos, C., Polikandrioti, M., Makis, A., Sarantaki, A., Kyritsi, H., Chaliasos, N. (2018). Expectations for life among Greek teenage thalassaemics. Perioperative Nursing, 7(1), 50–62. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1401472
• Antigoni Sarantaki, Kleanthi Gourounti, Aikaterini Lykeridou. (2018) Greek infertile women’s experience undergoing in vitro fertilization. ΝOSILEFTIKI;47(1):122–133 (in Greek) http://hjn.gr/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/get_pdf-1110.pdf
• Deltsidou A., Pappa E., Sarantaki A., Bouroutzoglou M., Kallia T., Nanou C. (2018) Postpartum Stress in Relation with Depression and Anxiety in a sample of Greek Postpartum Women. International Journal of Caring Sciences. Jan.-Apr; 11(1):12-22 https://www.internationaljournalofcaringsciences.org/docs/3_destsidou_original_11_1.pdf
• Metallinou D., Karampas G., Karapiperi E., Sarella A, Sarantaki A., Lykeridou K. (2019) The Effect of Prenatal Yoga on Quality of life. A Questionnaire Based Cohort Prospective Study based on WHOQOL Questionnaire. EAS J Nurs. Midwifery. March-April; 1(2):51-56
• Gourounti K., Kirkou J., Sarantaki A., Nanou C. Everyday life factors that have a detrimental effect on fertility. Review of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmakokinetics, 2019; 37(2): 91-94 (in Greek)
• O Kolokotroni, E Hadjigeorgiou, C Gourounti, V Christodoulides, A Sarantaki, C Nicolaou, K Lykeridou, M Karanikola, C Kouta, N Middleton (2019). E Delphi survey to shape the content of a digital resource to enhance parental health literacy. European Journal of Public Health;29(Supplement_4):428-9
• Gourounti K., Illiadou M., Sarantaki A. Assessment of the personal relationships between pregnant women and health care professionals. Preliminary findings on impact of this relationship on women’s fear of childbirth. Review of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmakokinetics, International. 2020; 34: 39-42.
• Gourounti K., Sarantaki A., Daglas M. Depression during pregnancy. Review of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmakokinetics, International. 2020 (in press)
• Diamanti A., Sarantaki A., Lykeridou A. (2020) The effect of alcohol consumption on the smoking status of women during pregnancy. A Systematic Review. NOSILEFTIKI (in press)
• Diamanti A., Sarantaki A., Lykeridou A (2020). The role of midwives in smoking cessation during pregnancy and the obstacles they face. Systematic review. NOSILEFTIKI (in press)
• Antigoni Sarantaki, Eleni Tsoukala, Kleanthi Gourounti, Dimitra Varnakioti, and Aikaterini Lykeridou-Avramioti (2020) Emotional changes of postpartum women in Greece – a preliminary study during the COVID-19 pandemic (under review)
• Sarantaki A., Daskofski A., Pechlivani M., Nanou C., Diamanti A., Varnakioti D., Metallinou D., Lykeridou A., Gourounti K. (2020) Attitudes of undergraduate health science students towards patients with disability (under review)
• Sarantaki A., Zambeli M., Lykeridou A. (2020) Health Care Providers’ Knowledge and attitudes in perinatal care for women with disabilities (under review)