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  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,633 Views
28 Pages

This study examines leading psychosocial safety climate (PSC) within the organization and psychological safety in teams in remote work conditions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. These topical working life phenomena have an essential role in health,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,408 Views
18 Pages

First-Year University Students’ Perspectives on Their Psychological Safety in PBL Teams

  • Nicolaj Riise Clausen,
  • Yasmin Belal Abouarabi,
  • Juebei Chen,
  • Søren Hansen,
  • Giajenthiran Velmurugan,
  • Trine Fink,
  • Niels Erik Lyngdorf,
  • Aida Guerra and
  • Xiangyun Du

14 February 2025

This study explores first-year university students’ perceptions of psychological safety, team creativity, and academic well-being in problem-based learning (PBL) teams at Aalborg University, where PBL is systematically implemented. These constr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
362 Views
17 Pages

University professors’ emotional competencies are increasingly discussed as relevant dimensions of teaching professionalism that may shape students’ academic engagement, motivation, and psychological well-being. This qualitative study exp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
624 Views
18 Pages

This study empirically examines the effects of humble leadership on service recovery performance, mediated by psychological safety, within the context of food-service operations. This research advances sustainable service management theory by identif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,686 Views
14 Pages

12 November 2021

Previous research has suggested that employees’ proactive personality can enhance their creative performance. However, studies that address the underlying mechanism of the effect of proactive personality on creative performance have been scarce. Addi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,822 Views
25 Pages

Unfolding the Relationship Between Psychological Safety, Knowledge Sharing, and Innovation Commitment in Private Higher Education Institutions in Egypt

  • Wael Elshanhaby,
  • Najlaa Ahmed,
  • Amr Noureldin,
  • Moustafa Leila,
  • Ibrahim Abdelmutalib,
  • Mohamed Aboueldahab and
  • Ahmed Attiea

27 January 2026

This study examines how psychological safety (PS) relates to employees’ innovation commitment (IC) in private higher education institutions (HEIs) in Egypt by specifying a learning-based mechanism and two enabling boundary conditions. Drawing o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,146 Views
21 Pages

Assessment of Occupational Health and Safety Performance in Air Traffic Control: An Empirical Investigation of Stress and Well-Being

  • Aristi Karagkouni,
  • Stylianos Zantanidis,
  • Antonia Moutzouri,
  • Maria Sartzetaki,
  • Theodore Constantinidis and
  • Dimitrios Dimitriou

9 September 2025

Air traffic control is widely recognized as one of the most psychologically demanding occupations, where safety and operational performance are tightly interwoven. This study explores the relationship between occupational health and safety (OHS) syst...

  • Article
  • Open Access
990 Views
14 Pages

7 March 2026

Intercultural Competence (IC) has gained prominence as a strategic priority in higher education; however, the socio-emotional mechanisms through which it develops in structured short-term academic mobility remain underexplored. This qualitative study...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,710 Views
24 Pages

Exploring the Interplay of Food Security, Safety, and Psychological Wellness in the COVID-19 Era: Managing Strategies for Resilience and Adaptation

  • Fanrui Zhou,
  • Zhengxin Ma,
  • Ahmed K. Rashwan,
  • Muhammad Bilawal Khaskheli,
  • Wessam A. Abdelrady,
  • Nesma S. Abdelaty,
  • Syed Muhammad Hassan Askri,
  • Ping Zhao,
  • Wei Chen and
  • Imran Haider Shamsi

22 May 2024

The global population surge presents a dual challenge and opportunity in the realms of food consumption, safety, and mental well-being. This necessitates a projected 70% increase in food production to meet growing demands. Amid this backdrop, the ong...

  • Article
  • Open Access
820 Views
16 Pages

Background: South African university students face escalating levels of psychological distress driven by academic overload, financial precarity, and social challenges. Health professions students are particularly vulnerable due to the demanding natur...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,253 Views
24 Pages

Effectiveness and Feasibility of Workplace-Based Mental Health Interventions for University Academic Staff: A Systematic Review

  • Veena Abraham,
  • Johanna C. Meyer,
  • Kebogile Elizabeth Mokwena,
  • Edward Duncan,
  • Xuan Luu and
  • Kathryn Hinsliff-Smith

Academic staff face workplace stressors such as high workloads, job insecurity, and limited institutional support, which contribute to psychological distress and burnout. While workplace-based interventions are important for maintaining well-being, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
612 Views
29 Pages

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide an integrative review of Positive Psychology in contemporary organizational contexts, examining how psychological resources such as Psychological Capital, Emotional Intelligence, Mindfulness, Psycholog...

  • Review
  • Open Access
42 Citations
12,724 Views
20 Pages

Mental Health Causation in the Construction Industry: A Systematic Review Employing a Psychological Safety Climate Model

  • Hamed Golzad,
  • Atefeh Teimoory,
  • Seyed Javid Mousavi,
  • Aya Bayramova and
  • David J. Edwards

26 September 2023

The construction industry has a lamentable reputation for having a high prevalence of suicides and mental health (MH) problems. Several government and academic reports have identified that construction workers are at a far higher risk of MH disorders...

  • Article
  • Open Access
497 Views
19 Pages

Background: Armed conflict and geopolitical instability increasingly affect mental health beyond directly exposed populations through continuous media exposure and digital information dissemination. Nursing students may be particularly vulnerable bec...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,313 Views
21 Pages

Enhancing Teamwork and Patient Safety Through TeamSTEPPS®: A Scoping Review of Benefits in Academic and Clinical Settings

  • Leonor Velez,
  • Patrícia Costa,
  • Nuno Santos,
  • Mafalda Inácio,
  • Ana Rita Figueiredo,
  • Susana Ribeiro,
  • Paulo Cruchinho,
  • Elisabete Nunes and
  • Pedro Lucas

24 February 2026

Background: Teamwork promotes the quality and safety of care. The TeamSTEPPS® program enhances communication and teamwork among healthcare professionals and students, as well as the associated benefits. Currently, there are no studies that compre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,452 Views
14 Pages

Nursing Students’ Perceptions and Experiences of Aggression During Clinical Placements

  • Chaxiraxi Bacallado-Rodríguez,
  • Francisco Javier Castro-Molina,
  • Jesús Manuel García-Acosta,
  • Silvia Elisa Razetto-Ramos,
  • Vicente Llinares-Arvelo and
  • José Ángel Rodríguez-Gómez

Background: Violence against healthcare professionals is a growing public health concern. In Spain, the National Observatory of Aggressions recorded 16,866 cases in 2024, marking a 103.06% increase since 2017. This phenomenon has intensified in recen...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
3,375 Views
15 Pages

29 September 2025

Background: Midwifery leadership is central to delivering safe, high-quality maternity care. Yet despite sustained investment in leadership development and governance frameworks, UK national reviews consistently identify leadership as a weakness. Und...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,634 Views
16 Pages

25 April 2025

The rise of mental health concerns in today’s Higher Education (HE) students is a growing concern. Integrating mental health principles into curricular design can enhance the student experience and improve outcomes such as continuation, complet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,903 Views
26 Pages

23 May 2025

Squash, which originated in the early 19th century, was officially incorporated into the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games by the International Olympic Committee in 2023. This inclusion marks a significant milestone, highlighting its growing internation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,440 Views
15 Pages

5 November 2025

This qualitative study examines the impact of societal violence on the school climate in Arab society in Israel, focusing on teachers’ perspectives. Violence is conceptualized as an extreme, intentional form of aggression aimed at causing physi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,780 Views
23 Pages

14 August 2025

The complex interdependencies among numerous safety risk factors influencing oil tanker loading/unloading operations constitute a focal point in academic research. To enhance safety management in oil port operations, this study conducts a risk analys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,831 Views
14 Pages

Measuring Pathological and Nonpathological Orthorexic Behavior: Validation of the Teruel Orthorexia Scale (TOS) among Polish Adults

  • Wojciech Styk,
  • Mateusz Gortat,
  • Emilia Samardakiewicz-Kirol,
  • Szymon Zmorzynski and
  • Marzena Samardakiewicz

25 February 2024

Measuring orthorexia nervosa is challenging due to the use of various existing tools and problems with sample representativeness. Another challenge for the Polish population is the adaptation of existing research tools and the evaluation of their rel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,036 Views
25 Pages

Building Safe and Sustainable Universities: An Integrated Governance Framework for Physical, Cyber, and Psychosocial Security

  • Miroslav Betuš,
  • Ivanna Betušová,
  • Gabriel Wittenberger,
  • Martin Konček and
  • Marek Hnilica

6 March 2026

European universities are facing increasingly complex security risks, including physical threats, violence, cyberattacks, emergency situations, and the deterioration of the psychological well-being of students and staff. Rapid societal change, techno...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,984 Views
15 Pages

A Realist Review of Violence Prevention Education in Healthcare

  • Sharon Provost,
  • Maura MacPhee,
  • Michael A. Daniels,
  • Michelle Naimi and
  • Chris McLeod

Violence from patients and visitors towards healthcare workers is an international concern affecting the safety and health of workers, quality of care, and healthcare system sustainability. Although the predominant intervention has been violence prev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,234 Views
14 Pages

Feasibility of Introducing a Prehabilitation Program into the Care of Gynecological Oncology Patients—A Single Institution Experience

  • Joëlle Dhanis,
  • Dieuwke Strijker,
  • Luuk D. Drager,
  • Maaike van Ham,
  • Cornelis J. H. M. van Laarhoven,
  • Johanna M. A. Pijnenborg,
  • Anke Smits and
  • Baukje van den Heuvel

29 February 2024

Prehabilitation is an upcoming strategy to optimize patient’s functional capacity, nutritional status, and psychosocial well-being in order to reduce surgical complications and enhance recovery. This study aims to assess the feasibility of impl...

  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
11,144 Views
18 Pages

Physician and Medical Student Burnout, a Narrative Literature Review: Challenges, Strategies, and a Call to Action

  • Santiago Cotobal Rodeles,
  • Francisco Javier Martín Sánchez and
  • Manuel Martínez-Sellés

26 March 2025

Background: Burnout is a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion produced by excessive and prolonged professional stress. Its prevalence is unclear, and figures from 2 to 81% have been reported, although studies focused on this issue are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,177 Views
18 Pages

Mental Health Services for Medical Students in Poland: 2025 Update of a National Evaluation

  • Mateusz Guziak,
  • Julia Terech,
  • Pola Sarnowska,
  • Magdalena Błażek and
  • Maciej Walkiewicz

5 December 2025

Background: The mental health of medical students is a global concern, with high rates of depression, anxiety, burnout, and suicidal ideation. Despite growing awareness, mental health services in higher education remain inconsistent and underfunded i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
75 Citations
22,629 Views
21 Pages

4 July 2022

In this study, we conducted a thematic analysis of the views and perspectives of university students about online learning, specifically regarding their interpretations and experiences of the transition from traditional face-to-face courses to online...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,235 Views
17 Pages

“In my day…”- Parents’ Views on Children’s Physical Activity and Screen Viewing in Relation to Their Own Childhood

  • Emma Solomon-Moore,
  • Lydia G. Emm-Collison,
  • Simon J. Sebire,
  • Zoi Toumpakari,
  • Janice L. Thompson,
  • Deborah A. Lawlor and
  • Russell Jago

Physical activity and screen viewing are associated with cardio-metabolic risk factors, psychological wellbeing, and academic performance among children. Across the last generation, children’s physical activity and screen viewing behaviours hav...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,494 Views
35 Pages

17 November 2024

The exploration and advancement of feminism are vital for addressing critical issues such as social progress, equitable education, and healthcare access. This paper comprehensively examines the feminist movement’s impact on architecture over th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,970 Views
20 Pages

15 October 2024

Human–robot collaboration (HRC) has become increasingly prevalent due to innovative advancements in the automation industry, especially in manufacturing setups. Although HRC increases productivity and efficacy, it exposes human workers to psych...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,626 Views
11 Pages

Healthcare Students and Medical Residents as Second Victims: A Cross-Sectional Study

  • Carmela Rinaldi,
  • Matteo Ratti,
  • Sophia Russotto,
  • Deborah Seys,
  • Kris Vanhaecht and
  • Massimiliano Panella

Background: The term second victim (SV) describes healthcare professionals who remain traumatized after being involved in a patient safety incident (PSI). They can experience various emotional, psychological, and physical symptoms. The phenomenon is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,418 Views
19 Pages

Addressing Acute Stress among Professionals Caring for COVID-19 Patients: Lessons Learned during the First Outbreak in Spain (March–April 2020)

  • José Joaquín Mira,
  • Ángel Cobos-Vargas,
  • Maria Pilar Astier-Peña,
  • Pastora Pérez-Pérez,
  • Irene Carrillo,
  • Mercedes Guilabert,
  • Virtudes Pérez-Jover,
  • Cesar Fernández-Peris,
  • María Asunción Vicente-Ripoll and
  • Jesús Aranaz
  • + 4 authors

Objectives: To describe lessons learned during the first COVID-19 outbreak in developing urgent interventions to strengthen healthcare workers’ capacity to cope with acute stress caused by health care pressure, concern about becoming infected, despai...

  • Protocol
  • Open Access
1,026 Views
10 Pages

10 December 2025

Background/Objectives: Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) positively impacts health safety and quality while also empowering nursing as a discipline. A useful strategy for promoting EBP is to build learning paths adapted to the individuality of nurses. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,125 Views
11 Pages

3D-Printed Patient-Specific Casts for the Distal Radius in Children: Outcome and Pre-Market Survey

  • Simone Lazzeri,
  • Emiliano Talanti,
  • Simone Basciano,
  • Raffaele Barbato,
  • Federico Fontanelli,
  • Francesca Uccheddu,
  • Michaela Servi,
  • Yary Volpe,
  • Laura Vagnoli and
  • Monica Carfagni
  • + 3 authors

13 April 2022

Background: Orthopaedic and Trauma surgery is expected to undergo profound transformation as a result of the adoption of 3D technology. Among the various applications, patient specific manufacturing of splints and casts would appear to be, particular...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4,912 Views
16 Pages

Co-Design of Social Impact Domains with the Huntington’s Disease Community

  • Natasha Layton,
  • Natasha Brusco,
  • Tammy Gardner and
  • Libby Callaway

Background: For people living with or affected by Huntington’s Disease (HD) to experience a good quality of life, tailored support is required to meet physical, cognitive-behavioral, psychological, and social support needs. Substantial service and kn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
9,780 Views
27 Pages

6 June 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected all sectors including educational institutions transitioning from face-to-face to hybrid and virtual classes. Partial or full closure of tourism businesses has impacted college students’ jobs within...

  • Article
  • Open Access
592 Views
23 Pages

This study explores how Machiavellian leadership behaviors may become embedded in ethical mentorship relationships and how these dynamics influence trust formation, dependency, emotional ambivalence, and trust erosion within higher education institut...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
297 Views
14 Pages

Patient-matched implants (PMIs) enable precise anatomical reconstruction but often introduce unforeseen intraoperative challenges that can provoke stress, reduce frustration tolerance, and influence surgical decision-making. Despite the growing clini...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,579 Views
9 Pages

The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected the personal and academic lives of undergraduates in Saudi Arabia. Although studies have suggested that COVID-19 increased the prevalence of psychological health problems among undergraduates, the associatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,913 Views
13 Pages

22 April 2025

Influenza poses a significant public health threat, causing millions of severe cases and hundreds of thousands of deaths annually. Vaccination remains the most effective measure to reduce transmission, complications, and the strain on healthcare syst...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,771 Views
19 Pages

Understanding Vaccination Uptake Amongst Gay, Bisexual and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men in UK Sexual Health Services: A Qualitative Interview Study

  • Tom May,
  • Joanna M. Kesten,
  • Hannah E. Family,
  • Harriet Fisher,
  • Adele Wolujewicz,
  • Marta Checchi,
  • Hamish Mohammed,
  • David Leeman,
  • Sema Mandal and
  • Clare Thomas
  • + 2 authors

24 January 2026

Background/Objectives: In England, gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) are eligible for vaccination at NHS sexual health services, including human papillomavirus (HPV), hepatitis A virus (HAV), and hepatitis B virus (HBV) vacci...