background and purpose: providing health services in health centers is a challenging and risky job. so that, realization of quality, performance, efficiency, and fairness in the provision of such services needs a proper condition to ensure that the stress experienced by the personnel is minimized. the present study is a survey of the factors effective on job stress among the nurses working in t...

ABSTRACT Objectives: to identify the available evidence regarding stress levels experienced by participants in education based on a realistic simulation. Methods: systematic review that included randomized clinic trials electronic databases: Cumulative Index Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Cochrane Library, Latin-American Caribbean Literature Sciences, LIVIVO, PubMed, Scopus, Web of Scien...

OBJECTIVE To explore patterns of experienced stress and stress reactions before the onset of illness in the life history of patients with severe somatoform disorders to identify predisposing stress-mechanisms. METHODS A systematic, thematic analysis was conducted on data collected from 24 semi-structured individual life history interviews. RESULTS Generally, patients had experienced high ps...

Objective: To assess state-trait anxiety levels and their correlation with occupational stress socio-biographical factors in nursing professionals. Materials Methods: This quantitative, cross-sectional, analytical study was conducted the inpatient units of a university hospital southern Brazil, participation 162 For data collection, forms, Stress-Symptom Scale, Workplace Stress State-Trait Anxi...

Effects of different mother-infant separation procedures on experienced stress by adults and young were studied using changes in circulating eosinophil levels as a stress indicator. It was found that (1) the amount of stress experienced by the mothers increases with the age of the pups at separation, when separation occurs as 6-week-, 8-week-, and 10-week-old pups, (2) eosinophil levels of mink...

BACKGROUND This study attempted to identify the sources of job stress according to job position and investigate how friendship networks affect job stress. METHODS Questionnaires based on The Health Professions Stress Inventory (HPSI) developed by Wolfgang experienced by healthcare providers were collected from 420 nurses, doctors and radiological technologists in two general hospitals in Kore...

Introduction: The current study aimed at investigating the role of Nitric Oxide (NO) in the maintenance of anxiety and depression induced by stress in male Wistar rats using intra-Basolateral Amygdala (BLA) injection of NO precursor, L-arginine, Nitric Oxide Synthase (NOS) inhibitor, and L-NAME.  Methods: Two 23-gauge stainless steel cannulas were placed in the BLA, stereotaxically. Seven days...