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Is ionizing radiation a risk factor for anxiety in employees? [PDF]

Revista da Associação Médica Brasileira, 2020
SUMMARY OBJECTIVE: Workers describe many physical and mental symptoms when working in radiation areas. This study aimed to assess these symptoms in radiation workers using the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI). METHODS: A total of 42 radiation workers (22 males and 20 females, mean age 34±7 years) and 47 control subjects (22 males and 27 females, mean age
Aslı Kurtar Mansiroglu, Murat Erer, Mehmet Coşgun, Isa Sincer, Yılmaz Güneş   +4 more
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Disaster Resilience Reduces Radiation-Related Anxiety Among Affected People 10 Years After the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
This study examined whether disaster resilience affects the recovery of mental health states and mitigates psychosocial anxiety 10 years later the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident. The survey was conducted in Fukushima's evacuation-directed
Tomoyuki Kobayashi, Masaharu Maeda, Chihiro Nakayama, Yui Takebayashi, Hideki Sato, Noriko Setou, Maho Momoi, Naoko Horikoshi, Seiji Yasumura, Hitoshi Ohto   +9 more
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Modelling psychological responses to the great East Japan earthquake and nuclear incident [PDF]

, 2012
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited - Copyright @ 2012
Gaines, SO, Goodwin, R, Sun, S, Takahashi, M   +3 more
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No Significant Effects of Cellphone Electromagnetic Radiation on Mice Memory or Anxiety: Some Mixed Effects on Traumatic Brain Injured Mice

Neurotrauma Reports, 2021
Current literature details an array of contradictory results regarding the effect of radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation (RF-EMR) on health, both in humans and in animal models.
Doaa Qubty, Shaul Schreiber, Vardit Rubovitch, Amir Boag, Chaim G. Pick   +4 more
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A systematic review of nonpharmacological interventions to reduce procedural anxiety among patients undergoing radiation therapy for cancer

Cancer Medicine, 2023
Procedural anxiety is a concern for a number of patients undergoing radiation therapy. While procedural anxiety is often treated pharmacologically, there is a clinical need for effective alternative strategies for patients who are contraindicated from ...
Erin Forbes, Amanda L. Baker, Ben Britton, Kerrie Clover, Eliza Skelton, Lyndell Moore, Tonelle Handley, Sharon Oultram, Christopher Oldmeadow, Alison Gibberd, Kristen McCarter   +10 more
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‘Having the mask on didn't worry me until … they clamped my head down so I wouldn't move’: A qualitative study exploring anxiety in patients with head and neck cancer during radiation therapy

Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences, 2023
Introduction More than 20% of patients undergoing radiation therapy for head and neck cancer report anxiety specifically related to the immobilisation mask, a tight‐fighting mask patients are required to wear for the duration of each treatment session ...
Erin Forbes, Kerrie Clover, Amanda L. Baker, Ben Britton, Melissa Carlson, Kristen McCarter   +5 more
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Psychological reactions to radiation therapy: Reconsideration of the adaptive aspects of anxiety. [PDF]

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1985
A common form of cancer treatment is radiation therapy. In this investigation individual differences in the psychological reactions of 45 patients undergoing external treatment were examined in the context of the Janis (1958) and linear decline models (e.g., Spielberger, Auerbach, Wadworth, Dunn, & Taulbee, 1973) of medical stressor anxiety. Evaluation
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Biofeedback Enabled CALM (BeCALM)—the feasibility of biofeedback on procedural anxiety during radiation therapy: study protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial

BMJ Open, 2022
Introduction Patients undergoing treatment for cancer who require radiation therapy (RT) report anxiety specifically relating to the RT procedure. Procedural anxiety can be detrimental to treatment delivery, causing disruptions to treatment sessions, or ...
Kerrie Clover, Amanda L Baker, Erin Forbes, Ben Britton, Sharon Oultram, Kristen Louise McCarter, Chris Wratten, Mahesh Kumar, Jodie Nixon, Minh Thi Tieu   +9 more
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Relationships between radiation risk perception and health anxiety, and contribution of mindfulness to alleviating psychological distress after the Fukushima accident: Cross-sectional study using a path model.

PLoS ONE, 2020
One of biggest public health impacts of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station accident is psychosocial. Anxiety about radiation is still present, and radiation risk perception, particularly with regard to genetic effects, is known to affect mental ...
Yuya Kashiwazaki, Yoshitake Takebayashi, Michio Murakami   +2 more
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Subjective expectations from radiotherapy and chemotherapy in patients with oncological illnesses

European Psychiatry, 2022
Introduction Expectations and fears about chemotherapy and radiotherapy in patients with oncological illness may not only affect their subjective well-being (Shaverdian et al., 2018) but also treatment satisfaction and complaints of side effects ...
E. Rasskazova, M. Kovyazina, M. Karakurchi   +2 more
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