Study Uncovers Physical Activity Barriers and Facilitators Among Police in Kerala
A qualitative study in Kerala, India, identified shift work, stress, and family obligations as key barriers to police physical activity, ...
Tag: occupational health
Cross-Sectional Model Identifies Musculoskeletal Injury Risk in Clinical Nurses
A multicenter cross-sectional study of 300 hospital nurses in Chongqing evaluated a nomogram-based risk model that identifies prevalent occupational musculoskeletal ...
Refinery Workers Show Thyroid and Trace Element Shifts
A cross-sectional study of 40 Iraqi oil refinery workers found significant alterations in thyroid hormones and trace element levels compared ...
War Leaves Hidden Wounds in the Doctors and Nurses Who Keep Working Under Fire
A Journal of General Internal Medicine viewpoint links wartime service among healthcare workers to elevated psychological distress and inflammatory biomarkers, ...
Study Links Nurse Burnout, Secondary Trauma, and Personality to Work Engagement
A two-stage study of 332 hospital nurses found that burnout was negatively associated with work engagement, while secondary trauma showed ...
High Burnout Rates Among ABA Professionals in Brazil: A Cross-Sectional Survey
A cross-sectional survey in Brazil found high rates of burnout among ABA professionals, with emotional exhaustion and low personal accomplishment ...
Pilot study tracks dairy worker stress with smartwatches
A pilot study in New Zealand found that smartwatches can effectively track the high physical activity and variable physiological stress ...
Health Outcomes Differ by Occupation Among Chinese Migrant Workers in Guinea
A cross-sectional survey of Chinese migrant workers in Guinea found that non-manual workers faced higher rates of chronic conditions and ...
Cancer Patients in Bangladesh Face Significant Workplace Productivity Impairment
A hospital-based cross-sectional study in Bangladesh found that cancer patients experienced substantial work productivity impairment, with presenteeism contributing more to ...
Chronic formaldehyde inhalation damages key interneurons in rat brain study
A 28-day formaldehyde inhalation study in male Wistar rats found widespread loss of parvalbumin interneurons, glial activation and behavioural deficits ...
IBS status shifts over one year track small changes in Japanese workers’ stress and support
A two-wave survey of 442 Japanese workers found that irritable bowel syndrome status trajectories over one year corresponded to small, ...
Silicosis Is Quietly Crippling Tanzania’s Artisanal Gold Miners
A new perspective paper warns that silicosis affects roughly 1.62% to 2% of Tanzania's artisanal and small-scale miners and calls ...
Nurses’ Compassion Fatigue Linked to Weaker Patient Safety Attitudes
A cross-sectional study of 368 Turkish nurses found that higher compassion fatigue was associated with more negative patient safety attitudes, ...
Canadian public health physicians describe burnout and paths to recovery
Interviews with 19 Canadian public health physicians and residents identified individual and system-level drivers of pandemic-era burnout and four strategies ...
Tanzanian nurses and medical attendants show uneven disinfectant-handling practices in cross-sectional study
A cross-sectional study of 290 Tanzanian nurses and medical attendants found that occupational health and safety training and adequate workplace ...
Sleep quality, not sleep length, carries the strongest link between work stress and depression
A cross-sectional study of 9,736 Chinese workers found sleep quality and sleep disturbance accounted for most of the statistical association ...
Antioxidant Supplement Blunts Radiation-Linked DNA Repair Signals in Interventional Physicians
A pilot clinical study found that a single morning dose of a multi-ingredient oral antioxidant formulation significantly attenuated acute DNA ...
Researchers propose ‘measurement validity induction’ as a concept describing a risk in scale use
A new conceptual paper in BMC Medical Research Methodology introduces 'measurement validity induction' to describe the risky practice of using ...
Research report: Network analysis of the relationship between change fatigue and work withdrawal behavior among Chinese nurses
A cross-sectional network analysis of 1,427 Chinese hospital nurses identified the specific change-fatigue and work-withdrawal symptoms most strongly connected, highlighting ...
Machine Learning Tracks Farm Injuries as Data Drifts Over Time
A benchmark of four classifiers on 60,010 Maine pre-hospital care reports shows temporal drift degrades agricultural injury detection and only ...
