OBJECTIVE To describe knowledge and practices adopted by high school students to prevent occupational injuries. STUDY DESIGN The study was carried out in a public school located in São Paulo, in 2003. Fifty-three evening students aged 14 to 21 years old participated the study, they were divided into two groups with and without job experience (32 and 21 students, respectively). The students an...

OBJECTIVES We investigated the extent to which the political economy of US states, including the relative power of organized labor, predicts rates of fatal occupational injury. METHODS We described states' political economies with 6 contextual variables measuring social and political conditions: "right-to-work" laws, union membership density, labor grievance rates, state government debt, unem...

background: emergency department staffs and emergency medicine personnel in particular are exposed to various occupational stresses (psychological traumas). there is little information about the possibility and rate of post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) among the emergency medicine personnel in iran and the world. this study deals with the ptsd prevalence and the influencing factors among th...

Vicarious trauma, traumatic stress, and burnout were investigated among three separate groups of mental health professionals working primarily with three different client populations (sexual violence, cancer, and general practice). Participants (N = 221) completed the Traumatic Stress Institute Belief Scale Revision M (TSI), the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), and the Impact of Events Scale (I...

BACKGROUND Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a musculoskeletal condition that often impairs the fitness to work. Our aim is to retrospectively evaluate the association between physical exposures in meat processing industry in Northern Italy and the CTS, taking into account non-occupational factors. MATERIAL AND METHODS A cross-sectional study was performed to include 434 workers (236 males, 198...

This study investigated three occupational hazards of therapy with trauma victims: vicarious trauma and secondary traumatic stress (or "compassion fatigue"), which describe therapists' adverse reactions to clients' traumatic material, and burnout, a stress response experienced in many emotionally demanding "people work" jobs. Among 101 trauma counselors, client exposure workload and being paid ...

BACKGROUND Physical activity is known to have health benefits across population groups. However, less is known about changes over time in socioeconomic differences in leisure-time physical activity and the reasons for the changes. We hypothesised that class differences in leisure-time physical activity would widen over time due to declining physical activity among the lower occupational classes...