Return to Work After Release From Prison.

Work preservation is crucial for the reintegration of ex-prisoners and the prevention of recidivism. We describe the application of an interdisciplinary diagnostic protocol (occupational health visit, psychiatric interview, psychological counselling and testing) in the case of a dairy industry worker (female, 45-year-old), released on half-freedom after approximately a year of detention in prison for attempted murder. This crime can seriously hamper job resumption.

[The new Maugeri diagnostic protocol for work-related stress and mobbing (MASD-2)].

Occupational stress can exceed the workers' individual capacity to adapt, and cause psychopathological conditions, including adjustment disorder (AD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), for which medico-legal reporting is mandatory by law. Since the early 2000s, an interdisciplinary diagnostic protocol has been in use at our Institute to address patients towards an appropriate therapeutic path, in order to promote their psychological well-being and work reintegration. In 2017, the protocol was updated and expanded.

Job preservation by an office worker with idiopathic cervical dystonia: case report.

Background: Work preservation is a main goal in the rehabilitation of chronic disabling diseases. We describe the application of an interdisciplinary protocol, involving the occupational physician, the occupational therapist and the ergonomist, in the case of a 50 year-old office worker with idiopathic cervical dystonia, a movement disorder that can seriously impair work capability.

Case Report: The disease was diagnosed at age 25, and subsequently worsened.

Imaging and imagination in the diagnostics of asbestosis.

Two cases of asbestosis diagnosed on the basis of anamnestic, clinical, and instrumental criteria, were not confirmed by forensic autopsy ordered by the public prosecutor to ascertain the cause of death. The two cases demonstrate that a suggestive working history can be misleading, in the absence of clear radiological signs and histopathological findings, and that asbestosis must be diagnosed following the criteria consolidated in the scientific literature, as any diagnostic errors can have serious legal consequences.

A PPAR-α agonist protects the non-adrenergic, non-cholinergic inhibitory system of guinea pig trachea from the effect of inhaled ammonium persulphate: a pilot study.

Aim of the study. Inhaled ammonium persulphate (AP) reduces non adrenergic, non cholinergic (NANC) relaxation in the guinea pig trachea, as a part of its inflammatory effects. Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor (PPAR) stimulation has shown anti-inflammatory properties.

[{Health and work after invasive heart procedures, rehabilitation and occupational evaluation]].

Unlabelled: «Health and work after invasive heart procedures, rehabilitation and occupational evaluation».

Background:: Our previous experience with the “CardioWork” protocol (activated in 2005) demonstrated the usefulness of the interaction between occupational physician and cardiologist to facilitate work resumption after invasive heart procedures and subsequent rehabilitation, adapting the work tasks of the patients to the changed physical capabilities.

Objectives:: We surveyed the health conditions and employment status of the subjects previously studied, years after their completion of the protocol in order to verify its effectiveness over a long period of time.

Renal cell carcinoma and malignant peritoneal mesothelioma after occupational asbestos exposure: case report.

Unlabelled: Asbestos is the main causal factor for malignant mesothelioma (MM), a relatively rare and aggressive malignancy. Some epidemiological evidence suggests a role of this agent also in the etiology of renal cell carcinoma (RCC), the most common form of kidney cancer.

Case Report: After 7 years of asbestos exposure, a 76-year-old asbestos-cement worker came to our notice with left flank pain.

[Discriminating capacity of the MASI-R questionnaire in the perception of work-stress].

Introduction: Workplace mobbing represents a severe type of occupational stress. The aim of this study is to evaluate the discriminant validity of the Maugeri Stress Index-Revised questionnaire (MASI-R) for the perceived work stress assessment.

Methods: A total of 105 patients were enrolled at the Occupational Medicine Uinit of our Institute for mobbing-related issues; they were compared to a control group matched for age, sex and professional category.

[The Maugeri Stress Index: a questionnaire to assess work-related psychological stress].

Introduction: The European directives concerning the evaluation of work-related stress were absorbed into Italian law by means of Legislative Decree No. 81 of 9 April 2008.

Aims: To develop a new questionnaire to assess the impact of work-related psychological distress and to validate it by testing its factorial structure, its content, its construct and discriminant validity.