Medical curriculum can exposed the medical students to a significant levels of mental pressure. Therefore, the prevalence and incidence of psychiatric disorders including abnormal value of stress, depression and anxiety are higher in the schools of medicine. There are two major types of sources that can lead to stress and further mental problems in the medical students: 1. stresses related to t...

To examine if sense of coherence (SOC) can reduce the adverse effects of job stress on mental health status, self-administered questionnaires were distributed among 740 workers in a manufacturing industry. The questionnaire contained SOC, Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ), and General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12). Complete answers were recovered from 466 workers (62.8%), consisting of 387 males ...

Food and nutrition are of paramount importance to sustainable human development. Where there is poor nutrition one finds a woefully inadequate formation and utilization of human capabilities. Malnutrition, if it does not lead to death, has profound consequences that extends not only into later life, but also into future generations. Among the adverse effects of malnutrition are increased morbid...

Nowadays, factors such as economic globalization and creation of global markets, rapid changes of technologies, become-knowledgeable organizations, expansion of e-commerce, rapid and easy access of the consumer to goods and services, and change of their social requirements have caused a severe competition among businesses followed by a stress on these organizations` personnel. Thus, aside the o...

BACKGROUND While evidence highlights the detrimental health consequences of adverse working conditions, effect sizes vary by the stressor examined. In this study, we aimed to explore the differential effects various constellations of job demands have on prevalent symptom clusters. METHODS We analysed self-reported data from a nationwide Austrian survey (N = 16,466), based on a cross-sectional...