abstract background: although studies have demonstrated significant negative relationships between quality of life (qol), fatigue, and the most common psychological symptoms (depression, anxiety, stress), the main ambiguity of previous studies on qol is in the relative importance of these predictors. also, there is lack of adequate knowledge about the actual contribution of each of them in the ...

Physical task stress is known to affect the fundamental frequency and other measurements of the speech signal. A corpus of physical task stress speech is analyzed using a spectrum F-ratio and frame score distribution divergences. The measurements differ between phone classes, and are greater for vowels and nasals than for plosives and fricatives. In further analysis, frame score distribution di...

Background: Previous studies revealed that takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TTC) is triggered by physical and emotional stresses. This study was performed to determine the short- and long-term prognostic impact of emotional- and physical stress associated with TTC. Methods and results: Our institutional database constituted a collective of 84 patients diagnosed with TTC between 2003 and 2015. The pati...

This study was intended to determine the extent of student stress in completing final project physical education and recreation program, Islamic University Riau. adopted a quantitative descriptive approach. The population sample were students education, health, recreation, Riau semester consisting 63 people. Sampling done by using random sampling. procedure consisted preparing questionnaire, va...

background: working conditions have considerably changed and exposure to psychosocial risk factors, particularly occupational stress, has recently had an increasing trend. studies have shown that sickness absence was the worst outcome of occupational stress. the present study aimed to assess the relationship between dimensions of occupational stress and sickness absence in a gas company in bous...

Some people seem to be able to withstand the ravages of stress better than others can. Why? Because a number of moderator variables can reduce the impact of stress on physical and mental health. To shed light on differences in how well people tolerate stress, we'll look at five key moderator variables: social support, hardiness, optimism, sensation seeking, and autonomic reactivity. As you'll s...

OBJECTIVE to determine whether there is an independent association between physical abuse during pregnancy or stress because of emotional, sexual, or physical abuse during pregnancy and birthweight after adjusting for behavioral, psychosocial, demographic, and medical variables. METHODS We conducted a cross sectional study of 808 low-income women, age 18 years or older, who delivered single i...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to examine the levels of occupational stress and physical symptoms among family medicine residents and investigate the effect of subscales of occupational stress on physical symptoms. METHODS A self-administered questionnaire survey of 1,152 family medicine residents was carried out via e-mail from April 2010 to July 2010. The response rate was 13.1% a...