This study aims to measure the work-life balance (WLB) and performance of married female nurses examine mediating role organisational commitment. The current research considers a cross-sectional survey among in Iraqi public hospitals. questionnaires collected data, valid were 219 analysed by Smart-PLS after ensuring validity reliability model. results indicated that WLB significantly impacts th...

Objective: This survey aims to identify the levels of knowledge and attitudes among nurses regarding cancer pain management. Methods: This cross-sectional survey was undertaken at King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, between September 4 and September 27, 2015. The survey instrument was a pre-set questionnaire comprising 39 closed-ended format questions. Participants were asked questions ...

Breast cancer is the most common female malignancy linked with high levels of morbidity and mortality in developing countries due to delayed diagnosis. This research assessed the knowledge of signs and risk factors of breast cancer and practice of self breast examination (SBE) among female nurses in a rural tertiary Hospital. Eighty-five nurses ages 20 to 60 years were sampled by simple randomi...

To clarify genotoxic effects of occupational exposure to antineoplastic drugs in Japan, we examined DNA damage, assessed by the comet assay, in 121 female nurses and 46 female clerks working at three hospitals in the northeast of Japan. The comet assay is considered to be a sensitive and rapid method for DNA strand break detection in individual cells, and tail length and tail moment are used as...

The aims of the present study were to clarify the work environment contamination by antineoplastic drugs in a hospital ward and to assess the genotoxic risks to nurses who routinely handle antineoplastic drugs in Japan. The exposed group consisted of 19 female nurses who routinely handled antineoplastic drugs. The control group consisted of 18 female nurses who did not handle antineoplastic dru...

OBJECTIVE To examine suicide by identified occupational groups in New Zealand over a period of 30 years, focusing on groups predicted to have high suicide rates because of access to and familiarity with particular methods of suicide. METHOD Suicide data (including open verdicts) for the period 1973-2004 were examined, excluding 1996 and 1997 for which occupational data were not available. Occ...