BACKGROUND Research suggests cardiovascular and metabolic diseases are influenced by psychological distress in adulthood; however, this research is often limited to adult populations and/or a snapshot measure of distress. Given emerging recognition that cardiometabolic diseases have childhood origins, an important question is whether psychological distress earlier in life influences disease dev...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the association between psychological demand and job control and demand with psychological distress among nurses. METHODS A cross-sectional study included 502 female nurses working in a public hospital at the city of Salvador, state of Bahia, Brazil. The Demand-Control Model proposed by Karasek to evaluate the association between job control-demand and psychological dist...

Cancer can cause patients to experience serious psychological distress 1. During diagnosis and treatment of the disease, patients not only experience a series of physical problems, such as pain, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, and sleep disorders, but also a series of mental health issues, including fear, sadness, anxiety, and depression 2. These physical and mental problems cause psychological dist...

BACKGROUND Psychological distress among medical students is commonly observed during medical education and is generally related to poor academic self-perception. We evaluated the role of peer social support at medical schools in the association between psychological distress and academic self-perception. METHODS An online survey was conducted in a medical degree program for 138 international ...

OBJECTIVE To assess for significant differences in psychological functioning between caregivers of HIV-infected children and caregivers of healthy children, and to examine the utility of applying a stress and coping model to caregivers of children with HIV disease. METHODS Participants included caregivers of HIV-infected children (n = 36) and caregivers of a demographically matched control gr...

Aline Drapeau1,2,3, Alain Marchand4,5 and Dominic Beaulieu-Prévost6 1Département de psychiatrie – Université de Montréal 2Centre de recherche Fernand-Seguin – Hôpital Louis. H. Lafontaine 3Département de médecine sociale et préventive – Université de Montréal 4École de relations industrielles – Université de Montréal 5Institut de recherche en santé publique – Université de Montréal 6Département...