SUMMARY The substantial strain that women are facing during the COVID-19 pandemic can affect their menstrual cycle and further impair quality of life. In low- middle-income countries, this is exacerbated by: cultural taboos poor education related to menstruation; ‘period poverty’; unavailability hygiene products; facilities. We suggest actions governments, healthcare professionals individuals t...

background nursing teachers have difficulties fulfilling multiple roles expectations and balancing the various dimensions of their roles that may lead to role strain. in order to lack of culturally and academically proper scale in iran to measure role strain in nursing teachers, localizing a foreign scale in this field is necessary. objectives the objective of this study was psychometric evalua...

conclusions: left ventricular systolic heart failure, may result in inter and intra-atrial asynchrony even in clinically stable patients without significant pulmonary hypertension and diastolic dysfunction. results: in heart failure patients either inter or intra-atrial asynchrony were far more common in comparison with normal subjects (p=0.008 and p=0.007 respectively). patients and methods: t...

background: there is a significant proportion of workers with mental disorders who either are struggling at work or who are trying to return to work from a disability leave. objective: using a population-based survey of working adults in ontario, canada, this paper examines the perceptions of workers towards mental disorders in the workplace. methods: data are from a sample of 2219 working adul...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have shown that psychosocial working conditions characterized by high psychological demands and low decision latitude (i.e., high strain work) are associated with increased risk of depressive symptoms. Little is known, however, concerning how this association may be modified by factors outside the working environment. This article examines the modifying role of priva...