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Occupational stress in nursing

International Journal of Nursing Studies, 1989
This article reports the results of a study of occupational stress undertaken with a large sample of Northern Ireland nurses, including qualified staff (both community and hospital based) up to and including sister/charge nurses. This study formed part of a wider interprofessional study of nurses, social workers and teachers.
A, McGrath, N, Reid, J, Boore
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Occupational stress and hypertension

Journal of the American Society of Hypertension, 2012
Occupational stress, or job strain, resulting from a lack of balance between job demands and job control, is considered one of the frequent factors in the etiology of hypertension in modern society. Stress, with its multifactorial causes, is complex and difficult to analyze at the physiological and psychosocial levels. The possible relation between job
Talma, Rosenthal, Ariela, Alter
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Occupational stress intervention

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 1996
The topic of occupational stress has received considerable research attention during the last decade and has emerged as an important occupational safety and health concern. Worker compensation claims for stress-related illnesses, for example, were the fastest growing type of claim in the 1980s, comprising more that 11% of all such claims.
J J, Hurrell, L R, Murphy
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The Occupational Stress of Judges

The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1991
This paper reports the results of what is believed to be the first systematic survey of the Canadian judiciary about work-related stress. County and District Court judges from four provinces who were attending an educational event on two successive years (N=104) reported in writing, anonymously, their perceptions of the most stressful aspects of being ...
J M, Rogers, S J, Freeman, P, LeSage
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Occupational Stress

2023
The workplace can be a major source of stress, and this can cause health problems that have a negative impact on the individuals, organizational, and society. This concise, evidence-based volume, written by a leading occupational health psychologist, explores how work conditions and organizational characteristics pose threats and harms to people’s ...
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Occupational Injury and Stress

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 1995
A literature search was conducted to identify studies that measured the relationship between stress and occupational injury. Studies that provided a quantitative measure of stress and occupational injury and a quantitative assessment of the relationship between these two factors were selected for this review. Twenty studies were identified, and all had
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A study of occupational stress and health

Applied Ergonomics, 1973
Because of claims by telegraphists' unions in a large Australian communications organization that their members suffered various forms of ill-health as a result of stresses imposed by their work, sickness absence, medical and environmental studies of the occupation were undertaken.
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Occupational Stress in Seafaring

2017
The seafaring occupation is characterized by specific psychosocial, work-related and environmental stressors which have many potential negative effects on the seafarers’ health, safety and well-being. From a review of the contemporary literature in the field arises the issue of implementation of occupational stress management programmes in the maritime
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