BACKGROUND Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is characterized by persistent emotional, mental, and physical fatigue accompanied by a range of neurological, autonomic, neuroendocrine, immune, and sleep problems. Research has shown that psychosocial factors such as anxiety and depression as well as the symptoms of the illness, have a significant impact on the quality of ...

conclusions: these findings demonstrated that cognitive failure and alexithymia had important roles in strengthening and appearance of high-risk behaviors in students with learning disabilities. therefore, considering those problems, precautionary actions might be necessary. results: the results showed that high-risk behaviors had significant positive correlations with difficulty identifying fe...

medical errors have an important role in the patient’s safety. every year many people die or are maimed forever by these errors. the present study examines personality, cognitive, organizational and physical variables as predictors in ahvaz hospitals as training centers for nurses. this is a discretive and cross sectional study. the sample consisted of 200 nurses who were selected randomly by a...

Introduction. The majority of industrial accidents occur because of human errors. Human error has different causes, however, in all cases cognitive abilities and limitations of human play an important role. Occupational cognitive failures are cognitively-based human errors that occur at work. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between occupational cognitive failures and safet...

Failures in self-regulation are predictive of adverse cognitive, academic and vocational outcomes, yet the interplay between cognition and self-regulation failure remains elusive. Two experiments tested the hypothesis that lapses in self-regulation, as predicted by the strength model, can be induced in individuals using cognitive paradigms and whether such failures are related to cognitive perf...

cognitive-based human errors have major contribution to performance and safety in working environment. this study designed to develop a measurement tool in order to evaluate this type of errors in the occupational settings. an occupational cognitive failure questionnaire (ocfq) was developed. content validity of the ocfq was performed using a quantitative approach. reliability of questionnaire ...