Psychosocial risks arising from work, like workload, have a negative impact on the quality of work life, especially in terms deterioration working conditions and consequences for employees’ health. The style leadership exercised is key coping with perceived psychosocial risks. purpose this study was to analyse influence transformational workload psychosomatic disorders, moderating role relation...

The increase of psychosomatic disorders due to cultural changes requires enhanced therapeutic models. This study investigated a salutogenetic treatment concept for inpatient psychosomatic treatment, based on data from more than 11000 patients of a psychosomatic clinic in Germany. The clinic aims at supporting patients' health improvement by fostering values such as humanity, community, and mind...

Alexithymia is a personality trait characterized by difficulties in identifying and describing feelings and is associated with psychiatric and psychosomatic disorders. The mechanisms underlying the link between emotional dysregulation and psychosomatic disorders are unclear. Recent progress in neuroimaging has provided important information regarding emotional experience in alexithymia. We have...

UNLABELLED Stress in nurses is an endemic problem. It contributes to health problems in nurses and decreases their efficiency. Documenting the causes and extent of stress in any healthcare unit is essential for successful interventions AIM Establishing the existence and extent of work stress in nurses in a hospital setting, identifying the major sources of stress, and finding the incidence of...

Pruritus is one of the subjective sensations that significantly reduces quality life patients. In patients with malignancies, itch can be caused by different universal or specific pathophysiological factors. This article discusses disorders cause pruritus in cancer patients: tumor growth on its own; changes associated a number paraneoplastic itch, anticancer therapy, concomitant dermatoses, sys...

This guideline watch reviews new evidence and highlights salient developments since the 2006 publication of APA’s Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients With Eating Disorders, 3rd Edition. The authors of this watch constituted the work group that developed the 2006 guideline. We find the guideline to remain substantially correct and current in its recommendations. The sole exception i...

In stressful situations, young children will tend to react with impaired physiological functions such as feeding and sleeping disturbances. [3] Older children may exhibit relationship disturbances with friends and family, poor school performance, behavioural regression to an earlier developmental stage and development of specific psychological disorders such as phobia or psychosomatic illness. ...

In the past menstrual pain in women was often thought to be psychosomatic. We now understand that menstrual pain is real. It has been recognised that gynaecological diseases/disorders such as endometriosis, dysmenorrhoea, menorrhagia, and pelvic inflammatory diseases are not minor problems for women affected. They often affect women’s quality of life and even reduce their productivity in genera...

In stressful situations, young children will tend to react with impaired physiological functions such as feeding and sleeping disturbances. [3] Older children may exhibit relationship disturbances with friends and family, poor school performance, behavioural regression to an earlier developmental stage and development of specific psychological disorders such as phobia or psychosomatic illness. ...

In stressful situations, young children will tend to react with impaired physiological functions such as feeding and sleeping disturbances. [3] Older children may exhibit relationship disturbances with friends and family, poor school performance, behavioural regression to an earlier developmental stage and development of specific psychological disorders such as phobia or psychosomatic illness. ...