Workload - Psychology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Implementing touch-screen technology to enhance recognition of distress.

30 Jul 2009 OBJECTIVE: The University of California, San Diego, Moores Cancer Center implemented a systematic approach for patients to communicate with their health-care team in real-time regarding psychosocial problem-related distress using touch-screen ... Read more...

Impact of work, health and health beliefs on new episodes of pain-related and general absence-taking.

30 Jul 2009 OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the impact of physical and psychosocial workloads, and self-reported health aspects and health beliefs, on the risk of new episodes of pain-related and general sickness absence. METHODS: This was a cohort study with 2 years ... Read more...

Exploring workload and attention measurements with uLog mouse data.

30 Jul 2009 User-system interactions (e.g., mouse clicks and movements) can be logged with the uLog computer program. A Web-based study with 20 participants was conducted to investigate the feasibility of using uLog data as an indicator of workload and ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Workload - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• A day in the life. 30 Jul 2009
• Implementing touch-screen technology to enhance recognition of distress. 30 Jul 2009
• [Illness caused by work--employees provide alarming figures] 30 Jul 2009
• Managing work-life balance: we should heed our own good advice. 30 Jul 2009
• Impact of work, health and health beliefs on new episodes of pain-related and general absence-taking. 30 Jul 2009
• Exploring workload and attention measurements with uLog mouse data. 30 Jul 2009
• Conflict between nursing home staff and residents' families: does it increase burnout? 12 Jul 2009
• Finding time to care. 29 Jun 2009
• How do stressors lead to burnout? The mediating role of motivation. 29 Jun 2009
• Patterns and profiles of response to incivility in the workplace. 29 Jun 2009
• Stress and counterproductive work behavior: multiple relationships between demands, control, and soldier indiscipline over time. 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
• Impact of enhanced resources on anticipatory stress and adjustment to new information technology: a field-experimental test of conservation of resources theory. 29 Jun 2009
• Burnout among psychiatrists in Milan: a multicenter survey. 29 Jun 2009
• Scope of agency control: assertive community treatment teams' supervision of consumers. 29 Jun 2009
• Full-time commitment. 29 Jun 2009
• Interruptions and geographic challenges to nurses' cognitive workload. 29 Jun 2009
• Neuroticism and locus of control as moderators of the relationships of charismatic and autocratic leadership with burnout. 29 Jun 2009
• An experience sampling study of learning, affect, and the demands control support model. 29 Jun 2009
• Developing leaders via experience: the role of developmental challenge, learning orientation, and feedback availability. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Workload'

Definition: The total amount of work to be performed by an individual, a department, or other group of workers in a period of time.

Descriptor UI: D016526

Alternative terms: Workload; Workloads; Work Load; Work Loads; Employee Workload; Employee Workloads; Workload, Employee; Workloads, Employee; Employee Work Load; Employee Work Loads; Work Load, Employee; Work Loads, Employee; Staff Workload; Staff Workloads; Workload, Staff; Workloads, Staff; Staff Work Load; Staff Work Loads; Work Load, Staff; Work Loads, Staff;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; standards; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: N04.452.677.950;

History Note: 92