The present survey investigated the association between resilience, burnout and psychological distress among Chinese female nurses. A total of 366 female nurses were enrolled in our study. A series of self-reported questionnaires that dispose of the following constructs: psychological distress, burnout, and resilience were estimated. The hierarchical linear regression models were used to evalua...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the association between psychological distress and obesity among law enforcement officers (LEOs) in the United States. METHODS Self-reported data on psychological distress based on six key questions were obtained from LEOs who participated in the National Health Interview Survey (2004-2010). We used Prochaska's cut-point of a Kessler 6 score ≥ 5 for moderate/high men...

Dyspepsia affects a quarter of the population annually. Most of them have a functional gastrointestinal disorder (FGID), eg. functional dyspepsia (FD) or irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). There is a great deal of evidence on the association between psychological factors, eg. anxiety and depression, and FGIDs. It is uncertain if 1) psychological factors cause dyspepsia, 2) dyspepsia causes psychol...

conclusions the study findings highlight the importance of the mental aspect of fatigue in this working group. these results have possible implications for workers’ health and well-being and for the design of shift work systems, for industrial workers. background shift work is a well-recognized occupational health hazard in both industrialized and industrially developing countries. prolonged wo...

objective: this study aimed to investigate the mediating role of maladaptive schemas between childhood emotional maltreatment and psychological distress among college students. methods: this was a descriptive-correlative and after the fact study. a total of 315 students were selected with multistage cluster sampling from students of tehran universities. the participants completed the lifetime o...

BACKGROUND Although the association between smoking status and poorer mental health has been well documented, the association between quit status and psychological distress is less clear. The aim of the present study is to investigate the association of smoking status and quit status with psychological distress. METHODS Data for this study is from a single year of the Survey of Families, Inco...

BACKGROUND There has been considerable interest in Japanese society in the problem of work-related stress leading to depressive symptoms, and an increasing number of primary houseworkers maintain paid employment. The purpose of this study was to examine the differential impact of multiple roles associated with psychological distress among Japanese workers. METHODS We studied 722 men and women...

The relationships between family environment and psychological distress and between psychological distress and sleep disturbance in adolescents are well established. However, less is known about the influence of family environment on sleep disturbance. The authors' goal is to examine the effects of parental involvement on psychological distress and sleep disturbance in 34 adolescents with a his...