background: nowadays job stress is one of the most important health problems that health and safety professionals are facing with. much of previous studies have focused on interventions such as stress management and, they have ignored the role of psychosocial factors in occurrence of job stress. this study investigated the mediator role of supervisor support on the association between work stre...

The author analyses how debate over the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has tended to privilege certain conceptions of psychiatric diagnosis over others, as well as to polarise positions regarding psychiatric diagnosis. The article aims to muddy the black and white tenor of many discussions regarding psychiatric diagnosis by moving away from the preocc...

objective: quality of life (qol) assessment has been employed increasingly to evaluate outcome among patients with chronic medical conditions. such assessment could be adversely affected by psychiatric disorders, co existing with such a medical condition. method: a cross sectional study of 251 out-patients with diabetes mellitus was done at a nigerian university teaching hospital using the comp...

Psychiatric abuse, such as we usually associate with practices in the former Soviet Union, is related not to the misuse of psychiatric diagnoses, but to the political power intrinsic to the social role of the psychiatrist in totalitarian and democratic societies alike. Some reflections are offered on the modern, therapeutic state's proclivity to treat adults as patients rather than citizens, di...

background: hospitalization compared to outpatient care leads to better diagnosis. stability of diagnosis varies among different psychiatric disorders and is associated with some demographic and mental health variables. objective: the current study evaluated the stability of diagnosis in baqiyatallah hospital psychiatric ward.  methods: in this retrospective study, 908 inpatient records from th...