Housework, paid work and psychiatric symptoms

Housework, paid work and psychiatric symptoms.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the hypothesis that work burden, the simultaneous engagement in paid work and unpaid family housework, is a potential risk factor for psychiatric symptoms among women. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out with 460 women randomly selected from a poor area of the city of Salvador, Brazil. Women between 18 to 70 years old, who reported having a paid occupation or...

Prematurity and paid work during pregnancy.

Most enquiries into the causes of prematurity conclude that at least 50 per cent. of cases cannot be explained on medical grounds (Joint Committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the British Paediatric Association, 1949; Baird, 1953). In these cases pregnancy is clinically normal but nevertheless labour starts before the expected date, or, if the baby is born at ter...

Gender, paid work, and symptoms of emotional distress in rheumatoid arthritis patients.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relative contribution of gender-related work conditions, gender-related socialization practices, and disease characteristics to the explanation of emotional distress in men and women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS Three hundred sixty-nine RA patients who were employed outside the home were recruited from a national randomized sample of rheumatology practices...

Local Industrial Structure and Female Participation in Paid Work :

The objective of this paper is to examine the effect of local industrial structure on female participation in paid work. Specifically, the research aims at investigating the extent to which limits on women’s ability to commute restricts their ability to take paid jobs outside the government. As Egypt’s economy moves away from a state-led model to a greater market orientation, the position of wo...

Ependymal cyst and psychiatric symptoms.