Long-term care nursing staff are subject to considerable occupational stress and report high levels of burnout, yet little is known about how stress and social support are associated with burnout in this population. The present study utilized the job demands-resources model of burnout to examine relations between job demands (occupational and personal stress), job resources (sources and functio...

This article describes a pioneering longitudinal investigation from Australia known as the Hunter Community Study (HCS). The HCS investigates retired and near-retired persons randomly selected in a regional area on the heavily populated east coast. As it collects detailed survey, clinical, and biological measures, the HCS is more comprehensive than most other research of this nature. The HCS al...

Occupational contact dermatitis (OCD) is the most common occupational skin disease in many countries. We reviewed the current evidence on how OCD impacts on quality of life (QoL). The three commonly used QoL questionnaires in OCD were the Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36), the Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI), and the Skindex. Despite the availability of a variety of validated QoL instrumen...

BACKGROUND Photovoice is a participatory action research method combining photography and group work to give people an opportunity to record and reflect on their daily lives. PURPOSE To review the use of Photovoice in health research and consider the implications for occupational therapy research. METHODS Literature review, guided by a scoping framework, reveals the purposes, rationales and...

The hospice philosophy plays an important role in the delivery of health services that focus on the biopsychological needs of people with a terminal illness and their environment. Occupational therapy in hospice can provide an environment which will enable people to discover and respond to their own inner needs. The occupational therapy setting creates an environment which provides people with ...

Occupational Health (OH) aims at protecting and promoting the health of the economically active sector of the population the workforce. It is this economically active sector that pays the taxes and produces the goods contributing to a nation's GDP. How cognizant are policy makers, administrators, employers and employees of occupational health and how do we convince them that good health of the ...

As concern surrounding concussion and the associated long-term effects grow, a continued need for comprehensive, holistic care emerges. Occupational therapists are well-equipped to address wide variety of symptoms deficits that clients may experience post-concussion. Functional cognition is one area in which occupational can demonstrate their unique value on interdisciplinary treatment team. In...

BACKGROUND Childhood socioeconomic status (SES) is known to affect cardio-metabolic disease risk. However, the relationship between childhood SES and metabolic syndrome (MetS) remains uncertain. Therefore, we investigated the relationship between childhood SES, as measured by maternal education and occupational status and adult-onset MetS in the Korean population. METHODS We examined the asso...