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Addressing employee mental health can increase productivity in the workplace, researchers in Australia said. The study of more than 60,000 employees, published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, found employees without symptoms of mental health problems -- having low scores on a psychological distress scale -- were the most productive workers. However, effective treatment of employees with mental health problems eventually led to productivity improving to...

One-quarter of U.S. parents of high-school students give a grade of A for school bullying and violence prevention programs, U.S. researchers say.The C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health indicates 26 percent of parents would give their child's high school an A for preventing bullying and school violence, while 38 percent of parents would give their child's elementary or junior high an A.The poll asked 1,087 U.S. parents in May to assign their child's school an A...

C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health finds 1/4 of parents of high schoolers give an A for school bullying and violence prevention programs ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Key to a child's successful education is an environment in which he or she can learn safely. According to a report released today by the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health, only 26 percent of parents would give their child's high school an "A"...

That bully you deal with during the workday may be doing more damage at night.A cross-sectional survey, taken in the southeast of France suggests a direct correlation between exposures to workplace bullying and sleeps disturbances.  The study shows 11 percent of women and 9 percent of men experience at least weekly "hostile behavior" in the workplace.Of that same random sample, adjustments were made to weed out co-variants such as age, weekly work hours, depressive symptoms and...

Current or past exposure to bullying in the workplace is associated with increased sleep disturbances, a researcher in Ireland said. Isabelle Niedhammer of the University College Dublin found 11 percent of women and 9 percent of men experienced hostile behavior in the work environment at least weekly and for at least six months during the previous 12 months. In addition, 32 percent of women and 31 percent of men reported they had observed bullying in the workplace in the previous 12 months....

A study in the Sept.1 issue of the journal SLEEP shows that current or past exposure to workplace bullying is associated with increased sleep disturbances. Associations also were found between observed bullying and sleep disruption, indicating that bullying has detrimental effects even when it is experienced indirectly.The study shows a high prevalence of workplace bullying, with 11 percent of women and nine percent of men experiencing "hostile behavior" in the work environment at...

Some students do not see themselves as bullies because they don't bully all the time, U.S. researchers said. Brent Harger, a graduate of Indiana University Bloomington and now assistant professor of sociology at Albright College in Reading, Pa., said several researchers have examined bullying but have largely ignored the ways that bullying is actually defined by students. Typically both students and researchers include physical and emotional abuse in their definitions of bullying, yet...

Nearly 10 percent of children are bullied by electronic means such as text messages, with girls more likely to be victims, U.S. researchers said. The study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, found bullying remains much more common in person, with large numbers of kids continuing to harass one another by spreading rumors, turning fellow students into outcasts and intimidating others through words and violence. Thirteen percent of students said others physically bullied them --...

Fourteen percent of the respondents to a survey in Spain say they have suffered psychological abuse or bullying at the workplace, researchers said. David Gonzalez of the High Court of Justice of Madrid and Jose Luis Grana of the Complutense University defined workplace bullying as a process of systematic and repeated aggression by a person or group towards a workmate, subordinate or superior. Gonzalez and Grana used data from nearly 3,000 valid responses received from the Negative Acts...

NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 4 /PRNewswire/ --- More than ever before, employers today are embracing worksite wellness programs as mounting evidence proves that such initiatives can increase productivity, reduce absenteeism, boost morale and lower health-related costs. Now, drawing on 20 years of working with thousands of employers nationwide, Aegis Health Group has revealed the six secrets of conducting a successful program. "Business leaders today are looking for ways to run leaner businesses -...