Background. Low back pain (LBP) is one of the most common health problems worldwide. Purpose. To investigate the link between baseline demographic and occupational, medical, and lifestyle data with following psychological and occupational outcomes in a large sample of employees with LBP over a 3-year period. Study Design. Three-year prospective cohort study. Methods. Italian-speaking employees ...

Psychological research has established that unemployment causes widespread psychological distress and ill health in communities but, arguably, little of this research is truly community psychological. In this paper we sketch out a critical community psychological perspective and use it to contribute to understanding of the role of psychosocial aspects of income in the experience and mental heal...

Anxiety depression is the commonest phenomena in preponderant population. Many individuals might have experience it and still not know, very often a state of constant denial negligence with fact knowingly. The causes can vary from psychological, physiological traumatic past experiences. This article incorporate studies anxietydepression their relationship causes. are most common psychological d...

Causal attributions control, beliefs, and helpful and unhelpful support attempts were examined among people experiencing chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and their close others. Results revealed that 84% of respondents with CFS believed that their illness was due, at least in part, to physical or external causes, whereas 47% mentioned internal/psychological causes. Reports of internal causal attr...

Research on the causes of psychological distress in women in midlife has focused on current adversity and hormonal changes associated with menopause and paid less attention to possible risk factors across the life course. We examined the factors in childhood, adolescence and earlier adult life that show persisting effects on psychological symptoms reported annually over a 6 year period (47-52 y...

Poverty and its etiology have been major subjects of concern for the social work profession throughout its history. This study focused on four causal attributions for poverty: social-structural, motivational, psychological, and fatalistic. More specifically, it examined the differences between social workers' and service users' perceptions of the causes of poverty. Participants were 401 service...

In recent years, sleep disturbances have been documented to affect up to thirty percent of the Western hemisphere’s population. Depression, anxiety and stress are the most common causes of sleep disturbances related to sleep-onset and sleep-maintenance difficulties. Sleep disturbances are common in the elderly, apart from psychological causes; they may be caused by side effects of medication or...