Psychosocial Dysfunction

Job strain and effort-reward imbalance in the workplace may put white-collar workers at increased risk for experiencing a heart arrhythmia, researchers reported.

Researchers observed lower levels of perceived stress among women with MI with nonobstructive coronary arteries vs. those with MI and CAD, but the prevalence of depressive symptoms was similar.

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Data suggest psychosocial stressors at work, including job strain and effort-reward imbalance, independently raise CVD risk for men and could pose a risk for heart health in women, though that evidence remains inconclusive.

Preliminary data from the COMPASS-IBD study showed an interdisciplinary care model improved psychosocial outcome values among patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

Nearly all 5-year-olds in a Finnish birth cohort study exceeded the WHO-recommended maximum daily screen time of 1 hour, putting their psychosocial well-being at risk, researchers wrote in BMJ Open.

Higher levels of psychosocial resilience in Black adults indicated better CV health as indicated by Life’s Simple 7 scores compared with lower levels of psychosocial resilience, researchers found.

Clinical awareness of bipolar disorder in youth is important given its high morbidity and mortality rate, which is even higher than adult-onset bipolar disorder, according to a presenter at the Psych Congress 2020 Virtual Experience conference.