AIMS To examine the ranking of workers in 15 European countries with respect to the extent that work is perceived to influence occupational stress. METHODS International interviewer administered cross-sectional survey. Control variables included demographics, perceived job conditions, and job satisfaction. A sample of working adults (n = 11 054) from 15 European countries were studied. RESU...

The Wisconsin Council on Education (Wiscouncil) developed and pilot tested an evaluation of student performance for Level I fieldwork to be use for both occupational therapy and occupational therapy assistant students. Data were gathered from 259 students, fieldwork supervisors, and faculty who rated the form on a number of variables. The majority of students and clinical faculty believed the f...

Occupational health researchers regularly conduct evaluative intervention research for which a randomized controlled trial (RCT) may not be the most appropriate design (eg, effects of policy measures, organizational interventions on work schedules). This article demonstrates the appropriateness of alternative designs for the evaluation of occupational health interventions, which permit causal i...

The services have a sophisticated task-based job analysis system which provides invaluable training and job descriptive Information within occupational areas. Increasingly, however, requests are made for the comparison of related work functions or variables (e.g., skills) across occupational areas. A practical quantitative measure for comparing work activities in different career fields would f...

This research studied the interaction influence of demographic characteristics (marital status, job rank, gender and age) occupational stress level, on work performance faculty members in Calabar Metropolis. The descriptive survey design was utilized for this investigation. A sample 150 respondents identified using systematic random sampling procedure from a population 400 Faculty Education lec...

BACKGROUND Individual and organizational factors are the factors influencing traumatic occupational injuries. OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was the short path analysis of the severity of occupational injuries based on individual and organizational factors. MATERIALS AND METHODS The present cross-sectional analytical study was implemented on traumatic occupational injuries within a...

OBJECTIVES To assess if the implementation of guidelines for occupational rehabilitation of patients with low back pain by means of process variables--a set of objective criteria for technical performance and continuity of care--led to a better outcome in clinical and return to work variables. METHODS The study group consisted of 59 patients with at least 10 days of sick leave because of low ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the profile of outpatients seen at an occupational disease clinic of a general and repetitive strain injury (RSI) patients by using multivariate analyze. METHODS The first 565 visit registries for the year 1996 were assessed regarding their social and demographics aspects, work characteristics, and diagnosis. All the variables were analyzed by univariate analysis method. B...

background: an important factor in the prevention of industrial accidents is the ability of employees to maintain awareness of the work situation, understand the information it holds, and predict how situations will develop. in the present study, we examined the role of fatalistic beliefs and safety climate in predicting occupational situation awareness (sa) among workers.   materials and metho...

BACKGROUND Lack of data on occupational stress among Iranian industrial employees persuaded us to design and conduct this study to evaluate the prevalence and associated parameters of occupational stress among male employees of the Esfahan Steel Company (ESCO), one of the biggest industrial units in Iran. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, 400 male employees were sampled from the operatio...