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Abstract Consumers frequently engage in unintended uses of products—referred to as ‘hacks’—such as using an oven to heat a room. While these practices are widely shared within consumers, they may introduce significant risks. This quantitative study (N = 206) examined differences in risk perception between consumers and UK product safety regulators regarding both intended and unintended product uses.
INTRODUCTION Desk-based work has been identified as a key sedentary behaviour responsible for prolonged sitting (Mansoubi et al., 2016), which is associated with a range of physical and mental health concerns (Coenen et al., 2019; Park et al., 2020). These health risks represent a significant economic burden to organisations (Griffiths et al., 2011), underscoring the need for effective strategies to improve employee well-being.
The findings from the current study indicated that staff working in an ICU can experience significant stress and this was negatively associated with health and wellbeing: 32% of the sample were categorised as being at risk of psychiatric morbidity and 18% as being at risk of depression. These findings are comparable with empirical evidence that between 20 and 30% of ICU professionals are at risk of psychiatric morbidity [1, 2] and 10–25% express depressive symptoms [2, 32].
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