Stopping Stress at Its Origins: Addressing Working Conditions To the Editor: A significant volume of research relates occupational stress to cardiovascular disease.1 Although a variety of methods exists for measuring occupational stress, a consistent feature of these measurements is a focus on environmental and work organization origins as opposed to individual characteristics and responses. Th...

INTRODUCTION Job stress can impose significant costs to the workplaces and organizations due to some issues such as absenteeism, less productivity, and medical costs. Job overload and lack of decision latitude can lead to job stress. The current study aimed to investigate the job demands and control as predictor of job stress and its relationship, with some of the demographic characteristics of...

In the last decade, rapid changes in medical practice, including rising demand for healthcare services, academic specialization, and increased responsibility for patients, has had a great influence on physicians’ job stress and burnout, where the latter signifies a long term stress reaction characterized by a loss of enthusiasm for work, depersonalization, and a lack of a sense of personal acco...

BACKGROUND Many women are working outside of the home, occupying a multitude of jobs with varying degrees of responsibilities and levels of psychological stress. We investigated whether different job types in women are associated with child sex at birth, with the hypothesis that women in job types, which are categorized as "high psychological stress" jobs, would be more likely to give birth to ...

CONTEXT Nursing is a stressful job that could create physical and psychological disorders. Many studies presented information on stress, effects of coping strategies, and job satisfaction of nurses within health setting. We aimed to identify and describe nursing stresses, coping strategies and job satisfaction of Iranian nurses who are working or worked in different wards. EVIDENCE ACQUISITIO...