Background: Nursing occupation can be stressful, with various practical factors, and nurse creativity plays a significant role in clinical nursing success. This study aims to determine nurses' association of socio-demographic characteristics and creativity with occupational stress. Materials and Methods: This descriptive study was conducted on 200 nurses working in teaching hospitals in Ilam, ...

background: occupational stress is one of the most important occupational hazards in modern life which could lead to decrease in productivity, work absence, workforce transfer and high costs for the personnel. american national association for occupational safety has placed nursing at the top of the list of the first forty high-stress jobs. there are various factors known as stressors in nursin...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to assess which social status factors predispose a person to dying with activity of daily living (ADL) disability in later life. METHODS We followed 243 deceased members of the Swiss Interdisciplinary Longitudinal Study on the Oldest Old annually up to 8 years before their deaths. Using a multilevel regression, we analyzed age at death, gender, occupationa...

This article gave a brief introduction of population, labor force, general status of occupational safety and health in Taiwan. Statistics of occupational injuries and health disorders, laws and regulations relevant to occupational health were also covered. Research activities driven by universities, research institutes, society/association were provided. Two multi-lateral collaborative research...

very strong advocate of the occupational therapist's role in prevention. I was particularly pleased with Doble and O'Shea's statements regarding occupational therapy's worldwide status. Our profession can only benefit from intercountry dialogue. If my view of occupational therapy appears provincial to therapists from other countries, it is because I have only recently had the opportunity to beg...

OBJECTIVES To study physician barriers to workers' compensation claims for asbestos-related cancers, focusing on smokers' stigma and physicians' speciality and role perception. METHODS Cross-sectional telephone study of 486 randomly-selected general practitioners (GPs) and pulmonologists in south-eastern France. Standardised questionnaires explored their behaviour, attitudes and practices in ...

background: exposure to job stress causes deleterious effects on physical and mental health of employees and productivity of organizations. objective: to study work-related stressors among employees of prisons of ilam, western iran. methods: in a cross-sectional study conducted from july to october 2013, 177 employees of ilam prisons and security-corrective measures organization were enrolled i...

very strong advocate of the occupational therapist's role in prevention. I was particularly pleased with Doble and O'Shea's statements regarding occupational therapy's worldwide status. Our profession can only benefit from intercountry dialogue. If my view of occupational therapy appears provincial to therapists from other countries, it is because I have only recently had the opportunity to beg...

This paper examines the speed of the occupational adjustment of immigrants using Labour Force Surveys 2004 and 2005 from Statistics Netherlands. The analysis provides new evidence that immigrants start with jobs at the lower levels of skill distribution. Their occupational achievement improves significantly with the duration of residence. The extent of this initial disadvantage and the rate of ...