patients and methods the study was performed with the participation of 172 cancer patients aged 18 and over. factor analysis (principal components analysis) was used to assess construct validity. criterion validities were tested by computing spearman correlation between candi and hospital anxiety depression scale (hads), and brief symptom inventory (bsi) (convergent validity) and quality of lif...

backgrounds: situation awareness is an important factor in industrial accidents. improving situation awareness may help to prevent occupational accidents. determination of factors influencing situation awareness will help to plan and take measures for betterment of working condition and development of a safer workplace. in this study, we examined the role of work overload and job stress in pred...

background: studies have shown that individuals with fertility problems experience psychosocial problems. the use of various coping strategies seems to have different impacts on women with infertility stress. the aim of this study was to examine the role of coping strategies (active-avoidance, passive-avoidance, active-confronting and meaning based) in predicting infertility stress among a grou...

becomes dictionary-like, and because theoretical discussion is limited to the end of each chapter, large parts of the book might be expected to be quite dull to a student reader; therefore, it cannot be recommended as a text. For these same reasons, as previously mentioned, and because of the outstanding documentation and bibliography, the book is better adapted to the needs of the more advance...

abstract the aim of this study is to investigate effectiveness of interaction between stress inoculation training and identity styles on psychological well-being and perceived stress. participates were selected through the simple random samplings procedure. sixty seven clients were divided by random assignment into two groups on the basis of their identity style (normative, diffuse/avoidant). t...

Background: Dental students who are at clinical or educational stage, are under environmental stress. The cumulative effect of clinical and educational stressors may also have negatively impact performance of clinical education in the long term and lead to mental and physical disorders. Our aim was to recognize and compare the stressful factors of dental environment among the students of clinic...

introduction vincent’s angina refers to acute necrotizing ulcerative lesions of the oral mucosal membranes and tonsils. case presentation; in this case, we report a 17-year old girl with emotional stress referred with symptoms of vincent’s angina. gram staining showed numerous fusospirochetal bacteria. with antibiotic therapy, amoxicillin and cephalexin, no clinical improvement was observed but...

background: this study’s objective was to evaluate the role of psychological adjustment in the decision-making process to have an abortion and explore individual variables that might influence this decision. methods: in this cross-sectional study, we sequentially enrolled 150 women who made the decision to voluntarily terminate a pregnancy in maternity dr. alfredo da costa, in lisbon, portugal,...

background: many countries make many of their governmental sectors private. this transition, however, may affect their employees in numerous ways. objective: to determine the level of occupational stress and mental health of employees of a petrochemical company in isfahan, central iran, before and 3 months after privatization. methods: out of the 700 employees of the studied company, using a st...

background & aim: occupational exposures can cause problems such as reproductive system disorders; however, the effects of some exposures, such as psychological stress, have not been investigated yet. this study aims to investigate the effects of women’s psychological stress on obstetric disorders. methods:this historical cohort study was conducted on 1400 working women in mashhad, iran. data c...