To compare short-term efficacy of benzodiazepines, antidepressants, psychological panic management, exposure in vivo, and combination treatments in panic disorder with or without agoraphobia (PA), a meta-analysis was conducted. Included were 106 studies, pertaining to 222 treatment conditions, 5,011 patients at pretest and 4,016 at posttest. Pre/post effect sizes Cohen's d were calculated withi...

Large numbers of children and adolescents have conditions that affect the CNS and disrupt normal brain development due to genetic and environmental factors (e.g., fetal alcohol syndrome), trauma, or chronic illness (Yeates, Ris, Taylor, & Pennington, 2010). Such problems have multifaceted effects on the child’s cognitive, emotional, and social development, health-related quality of life (HRQOL)...

AIM This paper is a report of a correlational study of the relationships between work-related injury-risk events and modifiable risk factors in a nursing population after controlling for socioeconomic factors. BACKGROUND Nurses are at high risk for work-related injury. Work-related injury is strongly influenced by psychosocial factors and physical job-related exposures, but the magnitude of e...

UNLABELLED Multiple physiological and psychological regulatory domains may contribute to the pathophysiology of pain in temporomandibular disorder (TMD) and other bodily pain conditions. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between multisystem dysregulation and the presence of TMD pain, as well as the presence of different numbers of comorbid pain conditions in TMD. Second...

Although the effect of disorders on psychological well-being is well-known, there are few studies focusing on oral conditions at the worksite. The present study examined the association between psychological well-being and oral conditions of Japanese workers. A cross-sectional study was performed using data from 1381 Japanese civil service officers aged 20-59 yr old. Psychological well-being wa...

This study investigates factors associated with psychological distress among military police (n = 1,120) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The article describes their social, economic, and demographic characteristics, quality of life, mental health, and work conditions. Measurement of psychological distress used the Self-Reported Questionnaire. Analysis of associations used logistic regression, consid...

After decades of neglect and controversy, anxiety disorders are increasingly recognized as legitimate medical conditions requiring specific treatment. The unproductive debate over the primacy of biological or psychological factors in the pathophysiology of anxiety is gradually being replaced by a pragmatic approach based on research on the relative contributions of both. A parallel, unbiased ap...

Nowadays, belief in the criteria and conditions of interactions with an organization to promote customer relationships is somehow tied to the organizational performance, and its final goal is of great importance. In the literature on organizational behavior, this belief is defined as the “psychological contract”. The intention of this mixed research is to identify and discover the contents of p...