Background: Nursing students face tremendous stressors during their student life that lead to physical and mental health problems and poor academic performance. But, evidence relating to stress, anxiety and depression in this population in Sri Lanka is limited. Objective: The aim of this study was to examine depression, anxiety and stress and associated factors among undergraduate nursing stude...

Although it is generally assumed that mental stress induces muscular tension, the experimental data have, so far, been inconclusive. Likely explanations for these inconsistent findings are (a) too small subject samples in some experiments, (b) the use of only one type of stress stimulation, and (c) the lack of objective (physiological) measurements documenting the stress-inducing properties of ...

The physical presence of other people can be stressful during performance tasks. The current study predicts that the physical presence of a single stranger will relate to physiological, selfreport and bodily indicators of perceived psychological stress as compared to a control condition with no experimenter physically present. Undergraduate students completed a series of questionnaires related ...

war is an effective factor in incidence and promotion of psychological and behavioral problems such as post-traumatic stress disorder. this study aimed to determine the quality of life and its correlation with age and percent of injury in war veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. this was a cross-sectional study, which included 70 war veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. this s...