Background: About one-third of workers identify organisational factors as contributors to workplace violence (WPV), but the associations between these factors and WPV have primarily been explored retrospectively and with measures of perceived organisational constraints, hence providing limited information for prevention. Therefore, we assessed whether objectively measured ward-level indicators of turnover, downsizing, overtime, and night shifts are associated with the occurrence of WPV and whether these associations vary by ward type.
Methods: We conducted an ecological study at a university hospital in northern Italy from 2016 to 2022, using wards as statistical unit (average: 230 wards per year).
Background: We examined interactions, to our knowledge not yet explored, between long-term exposures to particulate matter (PM 10 ) with nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) and ozone (O 3 ) on severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infectivity and severity.
Methods: We followed 709,864 adult residents of Varese Province from 1 February 2020 until the first positive test, COVID-19 hospitalization, or death, up to 31 December 2020. We estimated residential annual means of PM 10 , NO 2 , and O 3 in 2019 from chemical transport and random-forest models.
Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the independent and interactive effects of changes in overtime and night shifts on burnout among nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: Nurses working in an Italian university hospital (N=317) completed the Maslach Burnout Inventory in September 2019 and again in December 2020. Based on hospital administrative data, changes in overtime and night shifts in the same years were categorized into three groups each.
Objectives: The main objective of the study is to investigate the short-term efficacy of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) on the simultaneous modification of biological indicators of risk and psychological well-being in patients with coronary heart disease attending cardiac rehabilitation (CR).
Design: This was a two-arm randomised controlled trial comparing a brief, manualised, ACT-based intervention with usual care (UC).
Setting: The study was conducted in an outpatient CR unit in Italy.