For this study, we evaluated the independent and additive predictive effects of psychological maltreatment on an array of behavioral problems, symptoms, and disorders in a large national sample of clinic-referred children and adolescents drawn from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network Core Data Set (CDS; see Layne, Briggs-King, & Courtois, 2014). We analyzed a subsample of 5,616 youth wi...

Background: Firefighters work in strenuous conditions for prolonged periods wearing up to 20 kg of personal protective equipment. This often contributes significant heat and cardiovascular strain. Still, little is known about how the physiological adaptations intense exposure during structural fires impact on decision-making cognition function firefighters. Therefore, this pilot study aimed exa...

The physical presence of other people can be stressful during performance tasks. The current study predicts that the physical presence of a single stranger will relate to physiological, selfreport and bodily indicators of perceived psychological stress as compared to a control condition with no experimenter physically present. Undergraduate students completed a series of questionnaires related ...

Today’s housing, as a private realm of human life, has changed in comparison with the past which was made regardless of quality, desirability, and lack of paying attention to the human needs and its psychological consequences; That is to say, residential units have turned into a set of closed spaces and their open and semi-open spaces have been merged into the urban spaces which disrupted their...

BACKGROUND Few population-based studies have assessed the physical and mental health consequences of both psychological and physical intimate partner violence (IPV) among women or men victims. This study estimated IPV prevalence by type (physical, sexual, and psychological) and associated physical and mental health consequences among women and men. METHODS The study analyzed data from the Nat...

objective : to investigate the prevalence of physical and psychological violence against women with female factor infertility. materials and methods: a total of 400 women with primary infertility attending the vali-e-asr reproductive health research center in tehran, iran, were interviewed using the conflict tactics scales (cts2) questionnaire to investigate their experiences of physical and ps...

background : drivers are vulnerable to musculoskeletal and psychological disorders because of substantially harmful agents in this stressful occupation. this study aims to investigate the influence of driver’s physical and psychological health on the risk of road accidents using fuzzy logic approach. methods : two input variables including musculoskeletal disorders (msds) and mental health, alo...

in this paper, we introduce ergonomic system in assembly department of irankhodro as a case study, and then we measure its role in employees’ health and improving efficiency and productivity. to this end, we studied the effective factors including environmental, physical, safety, mental, psychological, and training. this research is descriptive – applicative in nature. data were collected throu...