Wounds and Injuries - Psychology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Trauma history is associated with psychological distress and somatic symptoms in homebound older adults.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVES: To examine the physical health, anxiety, and depressive symptoms of homebound older adults in relation to a history of trauma exposure. DESIGN: Secondary analysis of cross-sectional data. SETTING: Participants were recruited by in-home ... 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...

Non-Western interpreters' experiences of trauma: the protective role of culture following exposure to oppression.

30 Jul 2009 OBJECTIVES: Many people flee their countries of origin after suffering severe trauma and there is a need to explore how socio-cultural factors are implicated in the experience of both trauma and posttraumatic growth. Interpreters who have been ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Wounds and Injuries - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Trauma history is associated with psychological distress and somatic symptoms in homebound older adults. 30 Aug 2009
• Psychosocial factors contributing to occupational injuries among direct care workers. 30 Jul 2009
• Quality of life is starting to take precedence. 30 Jul 2009
• Shining light in dark places. Child abuse hurts a physician as well as her young patient. 30 Jul 2009
• Non-Western interpreters' experiences of trauma: the protective role of culture following exposure to oppression. 30 Jul 2009
• Trauma, emergency room visits, and cognition. 30 Jul 2009
• Dua sakit (double sick): trauma and the settlement experiences of West Papuan refugees living in North Queensland. 30 Jul 2009
• A psychoanalytic exploration of collective trauma among Indigenous Australians and a suggestion for intervention. 30 Jul 2009
• The experience of collective trauma in Australian Indigenous communities. 30 Jul 2009
• Policy statement--Pedestrian safety. 25 Jul 2009
• European orthopaedic and trauma patients' perceptions of nursing care: a comparative study. 18 Jul 2009
• Childhood trauma as a predictor of eating psychopathology and its mediating variables in patients with eating disorders. 29 Jun 2009
• An inspirational true story by Anonymous. 29 Jun 2009
• [Child abuse in the daily routine of nurses] 29 Jun 2009
• Homicides with mutilation of the victim's body. 29 Jun 2009
• Women in prison: the central issues of gender characteristics and trauma history. 31 May 2009
• War trauma, child labor, and family violence: life adversities and PTSD in a sample of school children in Kabul. 30 May 2009
• Locus of control and psychopathology in relation to levels of trauma and loss: self-reports of Peloponnesian wildfire survivors. 30 May 2009
• A comparison of PTSD symptom patterns in three types of civilian trauma. 30 May 2009
• Parasympathetic reactivity to recalled traumatic and pleasant events in trauma-exposed individuals. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Wounds and Injuries'

Definition: Damage inflicted on the body as the direct or indirect result of an external force, with or without disruption of structural continuity.

Descriptor UI: D014947

Alternative terms: Wounds and Injuries; Wounds, Injury; Trauma; Traumas; Wounds and Injury; Injury and Wounds; Injuries and Wounds; Injuries, Wounds; Wounds; Wound; Injuries; Injury;

Related Mesh Headings: First Aid; Transportation of Patients;

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: C21.866;

Online Note: pre-explosion = WOUNDS A#D INJURIES (PX)

Technical Notes: GEN or unspecified; prefer /inj with organs (Manual 19.7+, 19.8.38) or specific organ /inj precoords; policy: Manual 23.23+; types of wounds are also available, as WOUNDS, PENETRATING, etc.; MULTIPLE TRAUMA is available; wound suction: coord wd & inj concept with DRAINAGE; DF: WOUNDS