Workplace bullying and psychotropic drug use: the mediating role of physical and mental health status.

Objectives: The association between workplace bullying and psychotropic drug use is not well established. This study was aimed at exploring the association between workplace bullying, and its characteristics, and psychotropic drug use and studying the mediating role of physical and mental health.

Methods: The study population consisted of a random sample of 3132 men and 4562 women of the working population in the south-east of France.

Workplace bullying and sleep disturbances: findings from a large scale cross-sectional survey in the French working population.

Study Objectives: The purpose of this study was to explore the associations between workplace bullying, the characteristics of workplace bullying, and sleep disturbances in a large sample of employees of the French working population.

Design: Workplace bullying, evaluated using the validated instrument developed by Leymann, and sleep disturbances, as well as covariates, were measured using a self-administered questionnaire. Covariates included age, marital status, presence of children, education, occupation, working hours, night work, physical and chemical exposures at work, self-reported health, and depressive symptoms.

[Specificity and indications of bone scan in non-neoplastic bone and joint disease in children. A study of seventy cases].

We studied 70 bone scans in pediatric patients to define the indications of this procedure in non-neoplastic disease. Sensitivity of bone scans in infections proved outstanding except in children under one year of age. Eighty-nine per cent of children with pain and fever and a positive bone scan had either an infection or osteochondritis.