BACKGROUND High stress levels and mental health problems are common among medical students and there is a lack of studies on group interventions that aim to reduce such distress during medical school. METHODS A full class of students (n = 129) participated in group sessions during their third year of medical school in Bergen, Norway. The subsequent third-year class (n = 152) acted as control ...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the effects of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) on work-related quality of life in nurses. We aimed to investigate the effect of PMS on work-related quality of life in Turkish nurses. METHODS A total of 134 volunteer nurses were included in this cross-sectional study between January 2015 and March 2015. One hundred and thirty-four nurses completed a questionnaire r...

Purpose This study aims to investigate how dynamic tensions between performance measurement system (PMS) uses enable organizations achieve both exploitation and exploration enhance firm performance. Design/methodology/approach The authors collected survey data on 153 Italian companies. Scales for each construct were validated through an exploratory factor analysis. Data cross-validated by using...