abstract background: labor pain is one of the most intense pains experienced by women. different factors including physiological, psychological, socio‑cultural, environmental, and personality‑related factors are relevant to perception of childbirth pain. the negative experience of pain causes mental, psychological problems and influences the relationship between the mother and infant. therefore...

Room-temperature (RT) epitaxial growth of ZnO thin films on flexible cyclo-olefin polymer (COP) substrates coated with the exfoliated β-Ga2O3(100) single crystal sheets as a seed layer was investigated using pulsed laser deposition technique. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) observations and X-ray diffraction (XRD) measurements demonstrated that c-axis-oriented ZnO(0001) were obtained at RT b...

University students' physical and psychological health and wellbeing are important and comprise many variables. This study assessed perceived health status in addition to a range of physical and psychological wellbeing indicators of 3,706 undergraduate students from seven universities in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. We compared differences in these variables across males and females, an...

BACKGROUND In 2011, the Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries launched the Danish Organic Action Plan 2020 intending to double the organic agricultural area in Denmark. This study aims to measure experienced physical and psychological wellbeing at work along with beliefs and attitudes among kitchen workers before and after participating in educational training programmes in organic...

BACKGROUND In rich countries, smokers, active or passive, often belong to disadvantaged groups. Less is known of tobacco patterns in the developing world. Hence, we seek out to investigate mental and physical health consequences of smoke exposure as well as tobacco-related inequality in transitional middle-income Thailand. METHODS We studied a nationwide cohort of 87,151 middle-aged and older...

OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was retrospective analysis of self-reported perception and acceptance of changes related to menopause among women 1-10 years after the occurrence of their last menstrual period. The selected aspects covered social contacts with the family level (social wellbeing), perception of own physicality and inner feelings concerning sex life (psychological wellbeing)....

This study investigated changes in psychological and physiological markers during a weekend meditation workshop (N = 34). Psychological symptoms of anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and happiness were assessed. Physiological markers included cortisol, salivary immunoglobulin A (SigA), heart rate variability (HRV), blood pressure (BP), and resting heart rate (RHR). On pos...

BACKGROUND Psychological profile of inflammatory bowel disease patients is not well studied in Iran. We investigated the psychological status of Iranian patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) and its relationship with disease activity and quality of life (QOL). MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted on adult UC patients. The Lichtiger Colitis Activity Index, Hospital Anxie...