Publications by authors named "Caroline Kamau-Mitchell"
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- Being diagnosed with cancer can lead to increased distress and a higher risk of developing mental health issues, including hallucinations.
- An analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing found that cancer patients had significantly higher odds of experiencing hallucinations, with factors such as loneliness, discrimination, job satisfaction, and anxiety being contributing factors.
- The study suggests that improving mental well-being (like life satisfaction) and addressing anxiety is crucial for cancer patients, highlighting the need for mental health interventions post-diagnosis and during treatment.
The World Health Organization recognises that sexual harassment is an occupational hazard in medicine, but the prevalence of sexual harassment by patients is unknown. This global meta-analysis found that a pooled prevalence of 45.13% of 18 803 physicians from several specialities (e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBased on the vulnerability-stress model and coping theory, this study of 1920 people in Scotland investigated how sex, age, occupational factors, anxiety, depression and maladaptive coping behaviours are associated with cardiovascular health. Structural equation modelling and serial Sobel mediation tests were conducted. Anxiety was associated with past arrhythmia, whereas depression was associated with past heart attacks, stroke and angina.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: The aims were to compare the frequency with which male and female cardiologists experience sexism and to explore the types of sexism experienced in cardiology.
Methods: A validated questionnaire measuring experiences of sexism and sexual harassment was distributed online to 890 UK consultant cardiologists between March and May 2018. χ tests and pairwise comparisons with a Bonferroni correction for multiple analyses compared the experiences of male and female cardiologists.