BACKGROUND Although most depressive disorders are treated in primary care and several studies have examined the effects of psychological treatment in primary care, hardly any meta-analytic research has been conducted in which the results of these studies are integrated. AIM To integrate the results of randomised controlled trials of psychological treatment of depression in adults in primary c...

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between psychological contract breach (PCB) and violation (PCV), extent which moderated by tenure. data for was collected from a sample 304 faculty members working in three public-sector universities Quetta City. Data were respondents using proportionate random sampling close-ended questionnaires. analysis revealed that PCB had significan...

Workplace bullying is a phenomenon that can have serious detrimental effects on health, work-related attitudes, and the behavior of target. Particularly, workplace exposure has been linked to lower level general well-being, job satisfaction, vigor, performance higher burnout, deviance, turnover intentions. However, psychological mechanisms behind these relations are still not well-understood. D...

BACKGROUND Older meta-analyses of the effects of psychological treatments for depression in older adults have found that these treatments have large effects. However, these earlier meta-analyses also included non-randomized studies, and did not include newer high-quality randomized controlled trials. METHODS We conducted a meta-analysis of randomized studies on psychological treatments for de...

BACKGROUND A large number of studies have shown that psychological treatments have significant effects on depression. Although several studies have examined the relative effects of psychological and combined treatments, this has not been studied satisfactorily in recent statistical meta-analyses. METHOD We conducted a meta-analysis of randomized studies in which a psychological treatment was ...

assessing effects of asthma on patients’ functional status and life     m arash [1] , msc m shogi [2] , msc m tajvidi [3] , msc    received: 23 april, 2010 accepted: 3 may, 2010    abstract:   background & aims : asthma is an inflammatory disease in respiratory system with ill effects on psychological, social and economic status. this study was conducted to assess of effects of asthma disease o...

Previous research documents increased health problems, somatic complaints, and negative health behaviors among victims of physical and sexual violence. This study extended existing literature by examining the unique effects of partner psychological abuse on physical health and the moderating effects of approach and avoidance coping strategies. Psychological abuse was positively related to illeg...

The effects of working hours on health were examined taking psychological job strain into account. White-collar workers employed at the main office of a Japanese manufacturing company provided data for analysis done in 1997. The eligible subjects were 286 workers aged 20-39. Causal relationships between working hours, health, and psychological job strain were examined by covariance structure an...