BACKGROUND While there is considerable theoretical and empirical evidence on how job stress affects physical and mental health, few studies have examined the association between job related stress and health care utilization. Using data from the Canadian National Population Health Survey from 2000 to 2008, this paper examines the association between stressful working conditions, as measured by ...

General strain theory (Agnew 1992) departs from traditional strain theories by emphasizing the role of the individual's affective responses to negative life experiences in fostering deviant behavior. In this analysis, we examine the central hypotheses of general strain theory using data from a three-wave panel study of high school youths in the Boston metropolitan area (N = 939). Covariance str...

the purpose of this study was to evaluate mental health of tehran university students who were admitted in academic year 1994-95. for this study, 2321 student out of the total number of 4100 were randomly selected. these students were requested to fill general health questionnaire-12 (ghq-12) as well as personal information questionnaire. the results of testing hypothesis of this research showe...

There is a higher incidence of mental health problems amongst people with intellectual disabilities. Family members and support staff who provide support to people with intellectual disabilities with mental health difficulties are more likely to experience increased stress. In the mainstream mental health literature it has been demonstrated that psycho-educational family interventions have a po...

A Family Affair: Job Loss and the Mental Health of Spouses and Adolescents This study examines the impact of involuntary job loss on the mental health of family members. Estimates from fixed-effects panel data models, using panel data for Australia, provide little evidence of any negative spillover effect on the mental health of husbands as a result of their wives’ job loss. The mental well-bei...

background: heat stress is a common and usual problem in industries. several indices, including wet bulb globe temperature (wbgt), are used to evaluate heat stress. however, wbgt index has limitations such as high cost and response time. it is not thus suitable as a screening tool. heat strain scoring index (hssi) is also an observational-judgmental technique that has been developed for primary...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate a construction robot master-slave teleoperation system with video cameras and force feedback based on behavioral and subjective measures. The system can provide an operator with a realistic force feeling according to the actuator condition using the velocity-driving force characteristics. The teleoperation system comprises two joysticks on the master sid...

OBJECTIVES To determine the profile of caregivers for patients in home hospitalization, and to investigate morbidity and strain in caregivers. DESIGN Descriptive, cross-sectional study based on personal interviews.Setting. Health area in the community (autonomous region) of Valencia (Eastern Spain). PARTICIPANTD: Systematic sampling was used to select 215 caregivers who took care of home-hosp...

Budapest 2004 INTRODUCTION Good mental health is an important resource for individuals, families, communities and nations. Mental health is an obscure part of general health, reflecting an equilibrium between the individual and environment. Mental health basically has two dimensions, positive and negative mental health. According to the WHO World Health Report 2001 determinants of mental health...