Occupational Diseases - Psychology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Routine work environment stress and PTSD symptoms in police officers.

29 Sep 2009 This study examined the relationship between routine work environment stress and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in a sample of police officers (N = 180) who were first assessed during academy training and reassessed 1-year later. In a ... Read more...

Workplace bullying and sleep disturbances: findings from a large scale cross-sectional survey in the French working population.

30 Aug 2009 STUDY OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to explore the associations between workplace bullying, the characteristics of workplace bullying, and sleep disturbances in a large sample of employees of the French working population. DESIGN: ... Read more...

Psychosocial factors contributing to occupational injuries among direct care workers.

30 Jul 2009 Direct care workers have the highest injury rate in the United States, primarily due to work-related musculoskeletal disorders. This study examined the effect of psychosocial factors (i.e., stress, job satisfaction, organizational climate, safety ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Occupational Diseases - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Routine work environment stress and PTSD symptoms in police officers. 29 Sep 2009
• Workplace bullying and sleep disturbances: findings from a large scale cross-sectional survey in the French working population. 30 Aug 2009
• Losing sleep over work? Does it matter? 30 Aug 2009
• Psychosocial factors contributing to occupational injuries among direct care workers. 30 Jul 2009
• [Illness caused by work--employees provide alarming figures] 30 Jul 2009
• Musculoskeletal disorders and psychosocial risk factors among veterinarians in Queensland, Australia. 29 Jun 2009
• Nursing: does it still eat its young, or have we progressed beyond this? 29 Jun 2009
• When to forgive. 29 Jun 2009
• Do the opportunities for learning and personal development lead to happiness? It depends on work-family conciliation. 29 Jun 2009
• Exploring relationships among anger, perceived organizational support, and workplace outcomes. 29 Jun 2009
• Distributive justice, procedural justice, and psychological distress: the moderating effect of coworker support and work autonomy. 29 Jun 2009
• An examination of the relationship between workload and fatigue within and across consecutive days of work: is the relationship static or dynamic? 29 Jun 2009
• Disability and posttraumatic stress disorder in disaster relief workers responding to September 11, 2001 World Trade Center disaster. 29 Jun 2009
• Analyzing musculoskeletal neck pain, measured as present pain and periods of pain, with three different regression models: a cohort study. 17 Jun 2009
• Physiological responses to low-force work and psychosocial stress in women with chronic trapezius myalgia. 5 Jun 2009
• Repercussions of violence on the mental health of workers of the Family Health Program. 3 Jun 2009
• [Workplace-related anxiety, workplace phobia and disorders of participation] 30 May 2009
• Re: "changes in perceived job strain and the risk of major depression: results from a population-based longitudinal study". 30 May 2009
• Quantitative exposure-response relations between physical workload and prevalence of lateral epicondylitis in a working population. 30 May 2009
• A prospective sequential analysis of the fear-avoidance model of pain. 21 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Occupational Diseases'

Definition: Diseases due to factors involved in one's employment. (From Dorland, 28th ed)

Descriptor UI: D009784

Alternative terms: Occupational Diseases; Diseases, Occupational; Disease, Occupational; Occupational Disease;

Related Mesh Headings: Accidents, Occupational;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C21.447;

Technical Notes: the patient or disease: differentiate from INDUSTRY (the realm of labor, capital & trade) & OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE (the med specialty): Manual 31.14, 31.16; coord IM with specific dis (IM); DF: OCCUP DIS