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The private security guards in Mexico perceive high levels of stress. However, the use of validated instruments to assess job stress in this group is scarce. Psychometric properties of the DECORE questionnaire were analyzed in a sample of Mexican private security guards, as well as to examine their level of stress. A crosssectional study was carried out with a non-probabilistic quota sampling in which 933 workers participated, 596 men and 337 women, with a mean age of 35 years (SD=11.25). The results showed an adequate fit using a 22-item model, but not the 44-item model. To check the convergent validity of the DECORE, other questionnaires were applied (ERIQ, MBI and GHQ). Regarding the level of stress, the workers that participated in the study perceive a moderate to medium-high level of stress. It is recommended to apply the DECORE questionnaire in its 22-item version. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: objectifying physiotherapeutic procedures in the neurological field is essential to focus on longterm treatment. For this purpose, thermography could be a useful tool for this task, since it is capable of showing physiological changes at the muscular level after physiotherapeutic treatment. Objective: to observe and discuss the thermographic changes after the application of different physiotherapy techniques in pathologies related to brain damage. Material and method: a systematic review was carried out according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (PRISMA) standards in the main electronic databases, the last search being carried out on february 13th, 2022. All articles of the type CT, ACT, CCT carried out in humans on thermography and physiotherapeutic treatment in patients with brain damage. Results: 4 articles were selected to respond to the proposed objective. Despite the lack of homogeneity in the studies analyzed, in all of them thermography was used as a tool to assess the physiological changes after Physiotherapy treatment in patients with brain damage at the level of the upper, lower and trunk extremities. Conclusions: the results analyzed suggest that thermography could be a valid tool for monitoring and evaluating neurorehabilitation treatment, but scarce evidence in quantitative terms and moderate in qualitative terms suggest that more research is needed to clarify the real role of this technique in this clinical setting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scientific literature has shown relation between the perception of a high Effort-Reward Imbalance (ERI) and poor health or disease in healthcare workers. The aim of the study was to carry out a systematic review of how psychosocial risks in the work environment, conceptualized from the effort-reward imbalance model, influence different dimensions of health or illness in health care professionals. Articles that were published between 2010 and 2019 were reviewed by consulting Web of Knowledge, PsycINFO and Scopus databases. 27 scientific articles were included. High ERI and over-commitment are associated with poor health or disease in different dimensions.The main limitations of this review are a possible publication bias and the impossibility of establishing causal relationships between environmental psychosocial risks and health or illness. It is necessary to address the psychosocial risks of the health care work environment and to implement improvement programs to achieve a good balance between efforts and rewards. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Resumen Antecedentes Las aproximaciones teóricas sobre el bienestar laboral lo identifican con variables como la satisfacción, la motivación y el estrés. A su vez, en estas variables influyen los factores de riesgo psicosocial del entorno laboral, los cuales se relacionan con la salud de los trabajadores. Objetivo El objetivo de este estudio fue validar un modelo de bienestar laboral a partir de la evaluación de la percepción de los factores de riesgo psicosocial. Se aplicó el cuestionario DECORE a 865 trabajadores de distintas empresas del sector terciario en la Comunidad de Madrid. Posteriormente, se efectuaron diversos análisis factoriales confirmatorios (procedimiento máxima verosimilitud) sobre las distintas variables realizadas. Resultados Tanto al evaluar los factores de riesgo psicosocial como el bienestar laboral, los índices de ajuste resultan apropiados. Todas las variables latentes se reúnen en un mismo modelo para analizar las relaciones subyacentes entre ellas. Los índices de ajuste son, asimismo, adecuados. Conclusiones La percepción que tiene el trabajador de los factores de riesgo psicosocial resultó ser un predictor de su bienestar laboral, entendido como altos niveles de satisfacción y motivación, y bajos niveles de estrés percibido. Abstract Antecedents Theoretical approaches on occupational well-being have identified several intervening variables such as satisfaction, motivation and occupational stress. Psychosocial risk factors at work have an influence on these variables as well as on workers' health. Objective The aim of this study was to validate a model of occupational well-being by assessing perceived psychosocial risk factors in a sample of 865 workers from different service sector businesses by means of the DECORE questionnaire. Subsequently, several confirmatory factor analyses (maximum likelihood estimators) on the different analyzed variables were performed. Results On having evaluated psychosocial risk factors and occupational well-being, the indexes of adjustment turned out to be appropriate. All the latent variables were included in the same model in order to gather information on the underlying relationships between them. The fit indices were also suitable. Conclusions Workers' perception of psychosocial risk factors was a predictor of occupational well-being, defined as high levels of satisfaction and motivation together with low levels of perceived stress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: The scientific literature shows that there is a relation between the perception of adverse psychosocial risk factors and depression, despite the few longitudinal studies on this topic. Objective: The aim of the study was to carry out a systematic review of longitudinal studies in which the perception of adverse psychosocial working conditions was associated with depression in the organizational context. Method: Articles published between 2011 and 2015 were reviewed using PsycINFO, Web of Knowledge and PubMed databases. Results: Out of 588 studies, only four scientific articles were obtained. Results indicate that high perception of job demands, scarce control over demands, effort-reward imbalance, perceived work-family conflict, lack of supervision, job insecurity, working overtime, working on weekends when holding positions of low occupational grade and lower professional tenure are associated with depressive symptoms. Conclusions: These factors need to be taken into account in order to improve occupational health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to further analyse the psychometric characteristics of the DECORE Questionnaire (Luceño & Martín, 2008) which assesses workers' perceptions of some psychological risks that research has largely related with poor occupational health and well-being. The sample was split into two sub-groups. The first one consisted of 299 workers and data were analysed using an exploratory factor analysis; the second group consisted of 315 workers and data were analysed via a confirmatory factor analysis. Four factors were extracted from both exploratory and confirmatory analyses: Cognitive Demands, Control, Rewards and Organizational Support. Reliability index was higher than .78 for all four factors and in both groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper describes our search for the possible relationship between workers' health and quality of life and several psychosocial risks: Cognitive demands, Control, Rewards and Organizational support. These psychosocial risks were assessed by means of the DECORE Multidimensional Questionnaire, which provides five scores, one for each factor, plus a global score. Workers' health was assessed with the following variables: job satisfaction, stress perception, fatigue perception, medical leave, occupational accidents, and disease. 614 workers from various business sectors were examined. Results show that workers who feel more fatigued, stressed, and less satisfied perceive their work environment more adversely. Similar results were obtained for workers who went on medical leave, had an occupational accident, or suffered from disease. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Assessing psycho-social risks within the work context is a main task in Occupational Risk Prevention. In spite of the effort in research, most of the instruments to assess these risks do not offer, to our way of thinking, enough psychometric warranties. Thus, our objective was to develop an instrument for the assessment of psychosocial risks able to go beyond the present difficulties. In this paper we are presenting the results regarding the DECORE Multidimensional Questionnaire's validation. The sample consisted of 614 employees who filled in the 3rd version of the DECORE 3R (Luceño, 2005). The final result was the definitive version of the DECORE Multidimensional Questionnaire, created to assess workers' perception with regard to psycho-social risks. The questionnaire is composed of 44 items grouped in four factors, named: cognitive demands, control, rewards and organizational support. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Certain jobs, such as the Local Police, have to be available to the citizen at all times; as a result, shiftwork is necessary to ensure this permanent service. The aim of this paper is to know the psychosocial stress risk level (Decore Questionnaire of evaluation of psychosocial risks) and the perceived work stress (Social Work Stress Appreciation Scale) in shift work, in a group of 462 local police officers of the Madrid Community (Spain). The results show that all the workers are at the alert level or over in all psychosocial risks (except in demands and rewards) being the rotational morning-night shift the most adverse from the psychosocial point of view. Regarding perceived work stress, fixed night shift workers show less stress than the rotational morningnight shift workers. Finally, the study limitations are indicated and some recommendations are suggested for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sleeping habits and the subjective perception of the former determine people's health and general well-being. These sleep parameters of sleep are modulated by the job demands. Previous studies have analyzed the relationship between some psychosocial factors (social support, organizational support, control over job demands as well as anxiety and stress levels) and the characteristics of sleep. This study aims to analyze the relations existing relationships between sleeping habits and perceived psychosocial risks perceived by the subjects in a sample of 117 workers. Results show sleeping habits (sleeping quality and somnolence) and certain psychosocial risks, assessed in terms of organizational support, control and demands-rewards imbalance index, rewards, demand-control imbalance index and the overall risk indexs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of this study was to examine the relationships between job performance and subjective mental workload in a sample of 368 security guards. Mental workload was assessed using the "Cognitive Demands" dimension of the DECORE Multidimensional Questionnaire. Job performance was assessed by workers' direct supervisors. Results show that guards' global performance level was mainly determined by "work attitude" and "response to emergencies". No significant associations were found between job performance and subjective mental workload. Results only indicate that participants tended to perceive slightly more cognitive demands as job performance levels increased. These results are compared with previous investigations focused on the study of dissociations between mental workload measures. New research paths are recommended, including more complex tasks and situations (emergencies, addition of secondary tasks, etc.). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mental workload is one of the most important psychosocial risk factors. It is defined in terms of the difference between the worker's resources and job demands. Overload and underload conditions cause problems in workers' performance and health. In this paper, the appraisal of workload is compared among two groups of workers (those who had versus those who had not suffered at least one medical problem during the previous year). The NASA-TLX instrument was administered to a sample of 509 workers in order to assess mental workload. Results show that, in general, workers who have been on sick leave perceive higher levels of mental workload, especially in terms of effort, mental demand and frustration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]