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MONTH: April 2008

Lab care techs' stress studied

 

CARDIFF--Lab animal care technicians feel job stresses similar to those of shelter workers, Cardiff University animal facilities director Keith Davies recently told fellow members of the United Kingdom Institute of Animal Technology.

Davies interviewed six focus groups of lab techs in 2007, including a total of 31 techs, to gather perspectives and data, wrote Andy Coghlan in the March 2008 edition of New Scientist.

Previous studies have been done of the psychology of researchers, but Davies' study may have been the first to examine issues such as sorrow and guilt among lab animal care workers.