A5021470495- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Education and Learning Interventions
- Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal Disorders
- Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
- Ethics in medical practice
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
- Disaster Response and Management
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...