BACKGROUND Doctors especially house officers are under a great deal of stress related to a variety of occupational stressors. Occupational stressors contribute to organizational inefficiency, high staff turnover, absenteeism due to sickness, decreased quality, and quantity of practice, increased costs of health care, and decreased job satisfaction. One of the organizational outcomes that affect...

Health Realization/Innate Health (HR/IH) questions long-held assumptions about chronic stress, and challenges current defi nitions of both stress and resiliency. HR/IH sets forth principles that explain why the experience of psychological stress is not an effect of causal factors beyond people’s control, but is an artifact of the energetic potential of the mind. HR/IH describes the “cognitive f...

Although the term environmental stress is used across multiple fields in biology, the inherent ambiguity associated with its definition has caused confusion when attempting to understand organismal responses to environmental change. Here I provide a brief summary of existing definitions of the term stress, and the related concepts of homeostasis and allostasis, and attempt to unify them to deve...

BACKGROUND Police work tends to impose a high degree of stress and a multiplicity of stressful situations which can affect the physical, mental and interpersonal relationships of police personnel. The objective of the present study was to assess the level of stress among police personnel and to find the association of various factors with the level of stress among police personnel. METHOD A c...

BACKGROUND Recently there is a growing concern about stress during undergraduate medical training. However, studies about the same are lacking from Pakistani medical schools. The objectives of our study were to assess perceived stress, sources of stress and their severity and to assess the determinants of stressed cases. METHODS A cross-sectional, questionnaire-based survey was carried out am...

The purpose of this study was to examine stressors, stress level, and the impacts on nurses’ job performance at one general public hospital in Jambi, Indonesia. A questionnaire was used as a research instrument to sixty nurses. The data were analyzed statistically by using the SPSS software program. The findings of the study indicated that the major sources of stress or stressors were role conf...

The cognate signals from sterile or pathogen-induced sources converge on the same recognition or response pathways. In the surgical patient, a systemic response to infection most often occurs in the context of ongoing inflammatory stress. Such an inflammatory response is modulated initially by the magnitude of injury and by patient-specific (endogenous) factors, such as confounding illness, age...

PURPOSE This research applies a stress and support conceptual model to investigate the effects of background characteristics, personal and job-related stressors, and workplace support on direct care workers' (DCW) job satisfaction. DESIGN AND METHODS Researchers collected survey data from 644 DCWs in 49 long-term care (LTC) organizations. The DCWs included nurse assistants in nursing homes, r...

BACKGROUND Different types of accumulated stress have been found to have negative consequences for immigrants' capacity to adapt to the new environment. It remains unclear which factors have the greatest influence. AIMS The study investigated whether immigrants' experience of great difficulty in adapting to a new country could best be explained by (1) country of origin, (2) exposure to accumu...

CONTEXT The number of Latinos in rural regions of the United States is increasing. Little is known about factors that undermine the mental health of this segment of the rural population. PURPOSE The goal of this study is to determine which stressors inherent in farmwork and the farmworker lifestyle contribute to poor mental health. METHODS An interview containing the Migrant Farmworker Stre...