OBJECTIVES This study aimed to investigate anxiety sensitivity (AS) in female Chinese nurses to better understand its characteristics and relationship with nursing stress based on the following hypotheses: (1) experienced nurses have higher AS than newly admitted nurses; and (2) specific nursing stresses are associated with AS after controlling general stress. SETTING The cross-sectional surv...

This study was made by a qualitative approach based on symbolic interactionism and grounded theory. The subject was defined as what mutilation means for nurses who take care of women submitted to gynaecological surgery. The aim was to identify the interaction relationship of nurses as female with the phenomenon of mutilation in gynaecological surgeries and how it affects their relationship with...

OBJECTIVES It is known that a great extent of radiation is emitted from the medical instruments used in hospitals and that radiation exposure can cause thyroid cancer. However, the correlation between occupational radiation exposure in hospitals and thyroid disease is not extensively recognized. METHODS The subjects of the study were female nurses, who worked at a single hospital and female, ...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To determine female physicians' and nurses' practices and attitudes toward breast self-examination (BSE). DESIGN Descriptive, cross-sectional. SETTING Two large, bed-capacity university hospitals and 11 smaller, bed-capacity public hospitals. SAMPLE 201 female nurses and 149 female physicians who work day shift on medical and surgical wards. METHODS Data were collecte...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to investigate the effects of shift work on abdominal obesity among young and middle-aged female nurses during a 5-year retrospective study. METHODS This retrospective study included female nurses (20-39 years old) who worked at a university hospital in Korea and had available health screening results from 2010-2015. Among 2,611 employees, 934 healthy 20-39-year-ol...

background: identifying the predisposing factors of neck and shoulder complaints and finding solutions to avoid them could improve the occupational health condition of the nurses. in this study, we aimed at determining the role of psychological and physical occupational factors in developing neck and shoulder complaints among the participants.   methods: this analytic cross-sectional study was ...

BACKGROUND Diabetes is one of the most common chronic illnesses worldwide. This study was to assess whether the incidence risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus between female nurses and female non-nurses. METHODS Study data were obtained from the Longitudinal Health Insurance Research Database, and nurses were sampled from the Registry for medical personnel. Nurses and non-nurses with similar trai...