Numerous studies have demonstrated that there exists a strong and consistent association of several psychosocial factors and CHD. More consistent and reproducible outcome studies confirm that psychosocial risk factors such as depression, chronic anxiety, personality type D, anger, hostility and low socioeconomic status, represent potent CHD risk factors. The psychosocial risk factors also adver...

OBJECTIVE To examine associations of various psychosocial factors with fruit and vegetable intake in African-American adults. METHODS A cross-sectional survey of a population-based sample of 658 African-Americans, aged 18-70 years, in North Carolina. Information was collected on diet-related psychosocial (predisposing, reinforcing and enabling) factors based on the PRECEDE (Predisposing, Rein...

BACKGROUND Frailty increases the risk of adverse outcomes in older people. The impact of psychosocial factors on frailty and adverse clinical outcomes associated with frailty has not yet been examined in the hospital setting. The aims of this study were to: i) investigate the association between psychosocial factors and frailty, and ii) to establish whether psychosocial factors impact on the as...

the purpose of this study was to show types and extent of offensive behaviors at soccer stadiums and to test the relationship between personal factors, spectators, verbal behavior of stadium executives and staff, sport media biases, modeling from famous team spectators, refereeing the matches, and win-oriented spectators with offensive behavior of the spectators. a total of 727 researcher-made ...

background: consideration of risk factors of cancer and their clinical consequences is important. the purpose of this study was to investigate the predictive role of psychosocial and demographical risk factors for odds ratio of suffering by of cancer. methods: in a case- control study, 335 included 163 patients with cancers (solid tumors) of those patients that attended to cancer institute hosp...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Prolonged fatigue is common among employees, but the relationship between prolonged fatigue and job-related psychosocial factors is seldom studied. This study aimed (1) to assess the individual relations of physical condition, psychological condition, and job-related psychosocial factors to prolonged fatigue among employees, and (2) to clarify the associations between ...