Employee substance use and on-the-job behaviors

Article Abstract:

Substance use and job behaviors were assessed in a sample of municipal employees from a large city in the southwestern United States. Job behaviors included psychological and physical withdrawal, positive work behaviors, and antagonistic work behaviors. Employees who reported substance use at or away from work were found to more frequently engage in withdrawal activities and antagonistic work behaviors than did nonusers, although users and nonusers did not differ on positive work behaviors. We tested hierarchical regression models to determine whether substance use contributed unique variance to the prediction of job behaviors after we controlled for variance associated with personal and job background domains. Substance use added unique variance to the prediction of psychological and physical withdrawal behaviors but not to positive or antagonistic work behaviors. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Analysis, Problem employees, Employee drug abuse

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Should you worry about substance abuse?

Article Abstract:

Substance abuse starts affecting life, including work, home and personal after the age of 50 for a third of heavy drinkers are unable to perform tasks at home and work while medical problems like hypoglycemia cirrhosis and high blood pressure are major consequences of alcohol or drug abuse. Despite awareness of dangers, many people prefer take prescription drugs but those who take even minor tranquilizers can easily become addicted and hence abstaining from alcohol is desirable and other alternative treatments such hydrotherapy, biofeedback, yoga and acupuncture can help reduce the stress.

Care and treatment, Causes of, Medical condition overview

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A call for consistency in definition of breastfeeding behaviors

Article Abstract:

The ad hoc Interagency Group for Action on Breastfeeding's (IGAB) meeting with individuals and organizations involved in breastfeeding programs aimed to develop definitions of breastfeeding that were based on physiological effects of that behavior. The meeting was held because interpreting published research on breastfeeding was difficult due to non-comparable meanings of the term. The IGAB meeting resulted in the creation of a schema and framework that would serve as an outline for defining breastfeeding behavior.

Breast feeding

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