Coping Mechanisms to Mitigate Occupational Stress by Women in Accra Metropolis

Identify Coping Mechanisms to Deal with Stressors in Military Personnel

Background and Aim: The military personnel face many stressors. This study aimed to identify coping mechanisms in the face of stressors in military personnel. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study and the sample was 384 of staffs affiliated to Iranian Navy Force, who were selected by cluster random sampling. Data collection tools were demographic questionnaire, a military stressors questionn...

Stress and Coping Mechanisms in Female Primates

Decision-Making for Induced Abortion in the Accra Metropolis, Ghana.

Decision-making for induced abortion can be influenced by various circumstances including those surrounding onset of a pregnancy. There are various dimensions to induced abortion decision-making among women who had an elective induced abortion in a cosmopolitan urban setting in Ghana, which this paper examined. A cross-sectional mixed method study was conducted between January and December 2011...

Microbiological quality of "khebab" consumed in the accra metropolis.

SummaryThe study was carried out in 2003 to evaluate the microbial load in "khebab", meat products from pork, and beef, which are vended in most of the streets and some public drinking places, either with alcoholic or non-alcoholic drinks.Osu (Alata), Nima-Kotobabi and Central Accra (Adabraka - very close to the main lorry station), all in the Accra Metropolis, were selected for the investigati...

Occupational stress, coping and mental health in Jamaican police officers

BACKGROUND Police are exposed to a wide range of stressors and this is especially true in developing countries such as Jamaica. Exposure to psychosocial stressors and use of maladaptive coping styles can result in mental ill-health. AIMS To examine the relationship between work characteristics, coping and mental health in Jamaican police officers and to test whether work characteristics are i...