The development of traumatic stress studies during the past decades has much profited from professionals from the United States and from Europe. However, these professional societies, the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS) still struggle to find an equal common pathway. This is a personal retrospective view of Berthol...

background: occupational stress takes place in relationship between person and environment. it’s created by three major factors including characteristics personal, working conditions, relationships between them. stress is caused by psychological imbalances and has different outcomes on health. this study examined the relationship between job stress and job satisfaction in health care staff. met...

ost-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder, which can occur following the experience or witnessing of life-threatening events such as terrorist incidents, military combat, natural disasters, serious accidents, or violent personal assaults. Symptoms of PTSD may include reliving the experience through # $ = % # " # and feeling detached or estranged (Breslau, Davis, Induced by ...

This pilot study of baccalaureate nursing students explored the effects of an 8-week mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) course on stress and empathy. The course was intended to provide students with tools to cope with personal and professional stress and to foster empathy through intrapersonal knowing. A convenience sample of 16 students participated in the course, used guided meditation...

OBJECTIVE To examine the separate and joint effects of male and female fertility problem (FP) stress and the source of stress (e.g., personal, social, marital) on treatment outcome. DESIGN Prospective, epidemiological cohort design. SETTING Fertility clinics in Denmark. PATIENT(S) Eight hundred eighteen couples who were about to begin a new course of treatment. INTERVENTION(S) An FP str...

Some important consequences of nursing stress are job burnout and withdrawal symptoms manifested as an intention to quit the job. Job burnout is a stress syndrome characterised by emotional exhaustion (depletion of emotional resources), depersonalisation (negative and cynical attitudes towards one’s clients), and a diminished sense of personal accomplishment (the tendency to evaluate oneself ne...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine factors that influenced the nurse's perceived quality of work life and risk for compassion fatigue (CF). The specific aims of the study were to describe the (a) relationship among nurse characteristics and perceived quality of work life, (b) relationship between personal life stress and perceived quality of work life, and (c) the nurse's beliefs about his or her ri...

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and occupational stress have been recognized as major public health concerns. We aimed to explore whether occupational stress was associated with NAFLD in a police population.A total of 6559 male police officers were recruited for this prospective study in April 2007. Among them, 2367 eligible subjects participated in follow-up from 2008 to 2011. NAFLD w...