Aim We aimed to clarify how stress among psychiatric assistant nurses (PANs) differed from Registered Nurses (PRNs). Design Cross-sectional survey study was conducted with PRNs and PANs working in six psychiatric hospitals in Japan. Methods The Psychiatric Nurse Job Stressor Scale (PNJSS) and the job stressor and stress reaction subscales of the Brief Job Stress Questionnaire measured stres...

(i) The quality of the rice, as judged by the fineness of the grain. (ii) The process through which the rice grain has passed in its removal from the paddy. (in) The digestibility of the rice?from seasoning. (iv) Its vitamine content. With regard to quality, the best rice is transplanted rice, reaped during the winter months?the avian crop. Grain of the aus crop is coarse and not of good qualit...

which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Nursing are known as a profession that is constantly exposed to various stresses. Stress job in this profession could lead to disturbances that seriously put at risk the mental health of nurses. Pressure caused by stressors in the job has the undesirable effect on the indi...

BACKGROUND Police work is regarded as a high-stress occupation, but so far, no nationwide study has explored the associations between work stress and health. AIMS To explore physical and mental health among Norwegian police and associations to job stress. Comparisons were made with a nationwide sample of Norwegian physicians and the general Norwegian population. METHODS Comprehensive nation...

Background and objective: Nursing is an extremely stressful job and nurses face a variety of personal, organizational and communicational stresses which negatively affect their health and their job satisfaction. Accordingly, the present study was done to determine the level of job stress among nurses in intensive care units. Methods: In this analytical descriptive and cross sectional study, 175...

Many studies have reported that stress affects the immune system. It is known that professional drivers are exposed to various forms of job-related stress. The aim of the present study was to investigate the job stress of taxi drivers based on the mitogen responses and cytokine production of peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBMC), combined with interviews on lifestyles and income. We examined rand...