Negative affectivity and subjective health symptoms: A process perspective

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. van den Bergh
Keyword(s):  
Negative Affectivity ◽  
Subjective Health ◽  
Health Symptoms ◽  
Process Perspective

Author response for "Association of subjective health symptoms with Indoor Air Quality in European office buildings: The OFFICAIR project"

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioannis Sakellaris ◽  
Dikaia Saraga ◽  
Corinne Mandin ◽  
Yvonne de Kluizenaar ◽  
Serena Fossati ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Indoor Air Quality ◽  
Indoor Air ◽  
Subjective Health ◽  
Office Buildings ◽  
Author Response ◽  
Health Symptoms

Association of subjective health symptoms with indoor air quality in European office buildings: The OFFICAIR project

Indoor Air ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioannis Sakellaris ◽  
Dikaia Saraga ◽  
Corinne Mandin ◽  
Yvonne Kluizenaar ◽  
Serena Fossati ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Indoor Air Quality ◽  
Indoor Air ◽  
Subjective Health ◽  
Office Buildings ◽  
Health Symptoms

Gratitude and Loneliness: Enhancing Health and Well-Being in Older Adults

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (8) ◽  
pp. 772-793 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Y. Bartlett ◽  
Sarah N. Arpin
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Treatment Group ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Health ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Health Symptoms ◽  
Group Self ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Improve Health

We experimentally investigated gratitude’s impact on loneliness and health in older adults. Participants were assigned to a daily gratitude writing exercise (treatment group) or a control group. Self-reported loneliness and health (i.e., subjective well-being, subjective health, health symptoms) were measured daily over a 3-week period. In support of our hypotheses, within-person variability in gratitude predicted differences in loneliness and health. Furthermore, those in the treatment group showed stronger cumulative effects of gratitude on loneliness and health symptoms when aggregated across the 20-day study. Additionally, a series of conditional, multilevel indirect effect models found that loneliness acted as a mechanism for gratitude’s differential impact on subjective well-being and health symptoms across conditions. Taken together, this study provides initial evidence that a simple gratitude exercise can strengthen associations among daily gratitude and loneliness and, consequently, improve health, for older adults.

scholarly journals Health Symptoms Related to Pesticide Use in Farmers and Laborers of Ecological and Conventional Banana Plantations in Ecuador

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 1126
Author(s):  
Hans-Peter Hutter ◽  
Michael Poteser ◽  
Kathrin Lemmerer ◽  
Peter Wallner ◽  
Michael Kundi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pesticide Exposure ◽  
Gastrointestinal Symptoms ◽  
Subjective Health ◽  
Exposed Group ◽  
Pesticide Use ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
High Exposure ◽  
P Values ◽  
Health Symptoms ◽  
Systemic Symptoms

Conventional banana farming is pesticide-intensive and leads to high exposure of farmworkers. Ecuador is the world’s biggest exporter of bananas. In this field study in 5 communities in Ecuador, we recorded potentially pesticide-associated subjective health symptoms in farmworkers and compared pesticide users to workers in organic farming. With one exception, symptom rates were always higher in the pesticide-exposed group. Significance was reached in 8 out of 19 investigated symptoms with the highest odds ratios (and smallest p-values) for local irritation like skin and eye irritation (OR = 3.58, CI 1.10–11.71, and 4.10, CI 1.37–12.31, respectively) as well as systemic symptoms like dizziness (OR = 4.80, CI 1.55–14.87) and fatigue (OR = 4.96, CI 1.65–14.88). Moreover, gastrointestinal symptoms were reported more frequently by pesticide users: nausea (OR = 7.5, CI 1.77–31.77) and diarrhea (OR = 6.43, CI 1.06–30.00). The majority of farmworkers were not adequately protected from pesticide exposure. For example, only 3 of 31 farmworkers that had used pesticides recently reported using gloves and only 6 reported using masks during active spraying. Improved safety measures and a reduction in pesticide use are necessary to protect the health of banana farmworkers.

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