A5021470495- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Disaster Response and Management
- Ethics in medical practice
- Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal Disorders
- Education and Learning Interventions
- Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
University of California, Santa Barbara
2021
California State University, Northridge
2020
Limited research exists on the mental health (MH) of grocery store workers (GSWs), who have been frontlines throughout COVID-19 pandemic. A disaster MH conceptual model incorporating demographics, exposure and threat (COVID-19 fear workplace perception), perceived stress, social support (lack from family friends) was utilized to predict outcomes (anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress symptoms; PTSS) GSWs. GSWs (n = 842) were recruited through a regional union in California. The...
The COVID-19 pandemic provides the opportunity to re-think health policies and systems approaches by adoption of a biopsychosocial perspective, thus acting on environmental factors so as increase facilitators diminish barriers. Specifically, vulnerable people should not face discrimination because their vulnerability in allocation care or life-sustaining treatments. Adoption model helps identify key elements where act effects pandemics. showed us that barriers organization affect mostly...
The widespread use of virtual reality head-mounted-displays (HMDs) calls for a re-examination the impact prolonged exposure to fixed visual displays at close ocular proximity. purpose this study is validate Virtual Reality Symptoms Questionnaire (VRSQ), created understand symptoms HMDs use, and Computer Use Survey (CUS), assess general physical discomfort symptoms. Participants (N = 100) recorded their using CUS, performed an interactive task HMD thirty minutes, then answered CUS again along...