[Stress profile and chronic stress in Mexican immigrants in Canada].

Objective: Establishing an association between high chronic stress levels and variables considered to be negative regarding the stress profile for Mexican migrants living in Edmonton, Canada.

Methods: A simple random technique was used for choosing the target population; the sample size involved 58 migrants. The Nowack Stress Profile and Maslach Burnout Inventory were used to identify immigrants' stress symptoms during 2010-2011.

Assessing psychological violence and harassment at work: reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the Inventory of Violence and Psychological Harassment (IVAPT) comparing NAQ-R and LIPT.

Objective: The objective of this study was to examine reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the Inventory of Violence and Psychological Harassment (IVAPT) (Pando, 2006), a 22-item measure of psychological harassment at work and presence and intensity of psychological violence widely used in Latin American countries.

Methods: The IVAPT was translated into Japanese, and the translation was amended through a small pretest and a back-translation and finalized. A total of 1,810 out of 4,072 civil servants completed a questionnaire including the IVAPT.

Social support, burnout syndrome and occupational exhaustion among Mexican traffic police agents.

The consequences of work-related stress on health are worrisome, and by the same token, so is Burnout Syndrome. However, it has been shown that social support can prevent, reduce or even combat individuals' responses to stress. A descriptive, transverse study was carried out with the objective of determining the prevalence of both Burnout Syndrome and receiving social support for traffic police in Mexico.

["Blood and sugar": social representations of diabetes mellitus by chronic patients in Guadalajara, Mexico].

The objective of this study was to analyze social representations of diabetes mellitus by chronic patients in a neighborhood in Guadalajara, Mexico. The methodology was qualitative and ethnographic. Thirty patients were interviewed at four moments over the course of two years, and the interviews were transcribed and analyzed with a dialectic hermeneutic focus using the Ethnograph software.

[Vaccination messages foster mobilization and high coverage in Mexico].

Objective: To understand the perceptions of the effect of vaccination messages aired during the Second National Health Week in 1996 on the predisposition to vaccinate children among mothers from a lower class neighbourhood in Mexico City.

Methods: 120 mothers of children between the ages of 0 and 7 years who were exposed to the campaign messages participated. They were divided into 8 focus groups based on the age of the children and level of schooling attained by the mothers.