Stress, Psychological
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Friday, November 20, 2009

Life satisfaction of Swedish pediatric oncologists: The role of personality, work-related aspects, and emotional distress.

13 Dec 2009 BACKGROUND: The first nationwide, population-based study of Swedish pediatric oncologists was conducted in 2006 and it revealed that various aspects of their life satisfaction obviously influenced their stress-resilience. This second part of the ... Read more...

Doctors' stress responses and poor communication performance in simulated bad-news consultations.

30 Oct 2009 PURPOSE: No studies have previously evaluated factors associated with high stress levels and poor communication performance in breaking bad news (BBN) consultations. This study determined factors that were most strongly related to doctors' stress ... Read more...

The impact of senior medical students' personal difficulties on their communication patterns in breaking bad news.

30 Oct 2009 PURPOSE: To evaluate the possible influence of personal difficulties and barriers that are within the news bearer and his or her self-awareness (SA) of them, on the patterns of communication during encounters involving breaking bad news (BBN). ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Stress, Psychological'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Life satisfaction of Swedish pediatric oncologists: The role of personality, work-related aspects, and emotional distress. 13 Dec 2009
• Deciphering the interaction of the corticotropin-releasing factor and serotonin brain systems in anxiety-related disorders. 2 Nov 2009
• Gene-environment interactions and depression. 2 Nov 2009
• Gene-environment interactions and depression. 2 Nov 2009
• Gene-environment interactions and depression. 2 Nov 2009
• Gene-environment interactions and depression. 2 Nov 2009
• Doctors' stress responses and poor communication performance in simulated bad-news consultations. 30 Oct 2009
• The impact of senior medical students' personal difficulties on their communication patterns in breaking bad news. 30 Oct 2009
• A national survey of support and counselling after maternal death. 30 Oct 2009
• Identifying neighborhood stressors in assessment of drug treatment continuity and relapse. 30 Oct 2009
• Stress and nutrition among African American women with hypertension. 30 Oct 2009
• Cancer incidence in Israeli Jewish survivors of World War II. 24 Oct 2009
• Cancer risk from extreme stressors: lessons from European Jewish survivors of World War II. 24 Oct 2009
• Neuroendocrine and immune influences on the CNS: it's a matter of sex. 13 Oct 2009
• Screening for emotional distress in cancer patients: a systematic review of assessment instruments. 11 Oct 2009
• Stress, coping, and disease. 11 Oct 2009
• New focus on long-term mental health of patients who survive serious illness. 5 Oct 2009
• Meditation. Calming a restless mind. 29 Sep 2009
• MDMA pretreatment leads to mild chronic unpredictable stress-induced impairments in spatial learning. 29 Sep 2009
• Brief communication: self-suckling in Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) mothers before and after the death of their infant. 29 Sep 2009

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Technical information about 'Stress, Psychological'

Definition: Stress wherein emotional factors predominate.

Descriptor UI: D013315

Alternative terms: Stress, Psychological; Psychological Stresses; Stresses, Psychological; Life Stress; Life Stresses; Stress, Life; Stresses, Life; Stress, Psychologic; Psychologic Stress; Psychological Stress; Mental Suffering; Suffering, Mental; Suffering; Anguish; Emotional Stress; Stress, Emotional;

Related Mesh Headings: Crowding; Life Change Events;

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

Tree Number: F01.145.126.990; F02.830.900;

Online Note: use STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL to search STRESS, PSYCHOLOGIC 1969-72

History Note: 73; was STRESS, PSYCHOLOGIC 1969-72

Technical Notes: human & animal; coord IM with type of stress if relevant (IM or NIM); "stressful events" is indexed under LIFE CHANGE EVENTS (restrict to humans) but note LIFE STRESS goes here; stress ulcer: index under PEPTIC ULCER or specific (IM) + STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL or STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL (IM or NIM); DF: STRESS PSYCHOL