Abstract Urban stress is one of today’s most critical health challenges that urban stakeholders need to urgently address. However, while the positive role nature for mental and level reduction has been widely reported, distinct green infrastructure design characteristics play in citizen yet be understood. This paper presents a novel methodology where virtual reality, eye-tracking technologies, ...

This paper presents the results of a perception study investigating the location of prosodic prominence in the Māori language. 40 Māori-familiar participants listened to Māori sentences from speakers of three age groups with birthdates spanning over 100 years. In light of older speakers’ comments that the language has changed, the participants’ perception of syllabic prominence on a phrase-by-p...

PURPOSE The objectives were to identify work-related stress, and to analyse whether or not work-related stress served to predict sick-leave in a population of employed women who saw a doctor due to musculoskeletal or mental disorder at primary health care centres. METHODS This prospective study was based on data collected with the Work Stress Questionnaire (WSQ) at baseline 2008 and at follow...

Introduction: Based on human studies, inequality and social injustice have adverse effects on the individual and community health. In this study, the effects of food intake inequality and social status changes on pain perception and immunological factors were investigated in Balb/C mice. Methods: The present study was conducted by implementing different social stresses including food depriva...

Background: High level of perceived stress in nurses is due to a genetic predisposition and environmental stressors. The aim of NURSE (Nursing Unacquainted Related Stress Etiologies) study was to investigate the association of C677T MTHFR gene polymorphism and stress perception among nurses.    Methods: In this comprehensive study, 216 female nurses were recruited. Perceived stress w...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the relationship between nursing students' academic procrastination and stress levels during pandemic. descriptive correlational has been conducted November 15–22, 2020 with 218 students in department a health sciences faculty public university. "Personal Information Form", "Academic Procrastination Scale" "Perceived Stress have used collect data. data a...

objective: cancer creates a lot of stress and can significantly affect quality of life. the purpose of this study is to investigate the role of stage of disease, illness perceptions, unmet needs and fatigue in predicting the quality of life of patients with cancer. method: the sample consisted of 120 hospitalized patients in tehran's shohada hospital in 2014 that was selected purposefully....