Background: Working in a hospital involves a lot of long-term stress, which affects people who work in helping professions and are immersed in others’ problems. The present study aimed to determine the relationships of psychological capital, mental health, and health anxiety with psychological vulnerability through the mediating role of emotional processing and perceived social support in nurse...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether perceived job stress affects mental health in occupational settings. METHODS A 2 year cohort study was conducted. Initially, a survey including the general health questionnaire (GHQ) and a questionnaire about perceived job stress was carried out. Of 462 workers who initially showed a GHQ score of < or = 7,310 were successfully followed up for 2 years. The 2 yea...

STUDY OBJECTIVE Although perceived health status is an indicator widely used in epidemiological studies, its relation to various diseases is not well known. The objective of this study is to examine these relations in detail. DESIGN Marginal models used for a longitudinal study of the association between three health scales and 47 diseases among 12 164 men and 44 diseases among 4415 women. ...

Objective: Recent studies have begun to look at the impact of the economic crisis on mental health. This paper tries to summarize the most important findings with regard to effects of the economic crisis on mental health in Spain on the basis of a comprehensive literature review. Results: Most of the studies agree on the negative consequences on mental health of the Spanish economic crisis. A d...

Objectives. To explore the financial situation and social contacts of employed, unemployed and studying respondents; the relationship between their employment status and perceived health and possible mediating effect of financial strain and social contacts. Methods. Data were obtained from 844 secondary school leavers (mean age 19.6) from Slovakia. The effect of unemployment on several health i...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to determine the extent of changes in mental health status of children in a respite service as little has been reported on this aspect of respite care. METHOD All families enrolled in a new centre-based respite program in a moderately large urban center in Canada were invited to participate. The child's primary caregiver completed the Strengths and Di...

This study was carried out to find out the level of perceived stress, resilience and mental health of adolescents living at international border in Jammu and Kashmir, India. Further an attempt was made to explore the relationship between these variables. A random sample of 100 adolescents in the age group 13-18 years was drawn from villages falling within five kilometers from the actual border....