OBJECTIVE To provide a baseline description of psychosocial workplace stressors and supports along with safety, injury, health, and well-being indicators in a sample of utility and construction workers for a National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health-funded Total Worker Health™ intervention study. METHODS Survey responses and health assessments were collected from a total of 349 em...

The assessment of stress in epidemiological studies is challenging. Stress has many conceptualisations: chronic versus acute, objective versus subjective, stimulus versus response, and individual versus organisational/societal levels. The measurement of psychosocial stress may focus on physiological activation, the measurement of stressors, or the subjective stress experience. Measurement may b...

by Michelle A. Crowe, M.S. Washington State University May 2004 Chair: Sally E. Blank Breast cancer survivors are challenged by many psychosocial issues that increase the burden of survivorship and overall stress. Increased psychosocial distress alters nuclear expression of NF-κB, a regulator of gene transcription activities involved in innate immunity. Interventions that target psychosocial st...

Background: Childhood maltreatment (CM) can increase the risk of psychosocial risk factors in adulthood (e. g. intimate partner violence, financial problems, substance abuse or medical problems). The transition to parenthood presents those affected by CM with particular challenges, in addition to usual birth-related stressors. Methods: In this cross-sectional study a total of 240 women were int...

BACKGROUND Recently there is a growing concern about stress during undergraduate medical training. However, studies about the same are lacking from Pakistani medical schools. The objectives of our study were to assess perceived stress, sources of stress and their severity and to assess the determinants of stressed cases. METHODS A cross-sectional, questionnaire-based survey was carried out am...

BACKGROUND: The objective of the present study was to identify the effects and relative importance of demographic factors and psychosocial stressors on self-esteem of psychiatric patients. METHOD: The present study was carried out on a consecutive sample of 1,190 individuals attending an open-access psychiatric outpatient clinic. Patients were diagnosed according to DSM III-R diagnostic criteri...

BACKGROUND Community studies have documented prevalence rates of psychological disorders among older individuals. Further, a growing number of studies have examined depression in older medical patients. However, little is known about the prevalence of a broad range of psychological disorders and psychosocial stressors among older primary care patients. The purpose of the present study was to ch...