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This article explores, identifies and conceptualises everyday audiobook reading practices amongst young adults.

Semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten Swedish audiobook users aged 18–19. The material was analysed using qualitative content analysis and focused on their audiobook use during an average weekday, as this was the time that they listened the most. The theoretical framework consists of theories on practice, time and everyday routine.

Five timespaces emerged when audiobook practices were most prevalent: morning routines, commuting routines, school routines, after school routines and bedtime routines. Within these timespaces, several practices could be identified and conceptualised. Three mobile practices were commute listening, exercise listening and chore listening while more stationary practices were homework listening, schoolwork listening and leisure listening. An unexpected finding was how audiobooks routinely were used to aid respondents’ wellbeing. This wellbeing listening was used to alleviate stress, loneliness and help listeners relax or fall asleep. Furthermore, respondents switch between Music, Audiobooks and Podcasts, which is conceptualised as MAP-switching.

There is a scarcity of research on audiobook use, and this paper contributes with new knowledge on audiobook reading practices, how audiobooks fit into everyday routine and provides concepts to aid further research on audiobook practices.

There has been a move towards the implementation of digital/e-health interventions for some time. Digital/e-health interventions have demonstrable efficacy in increasing individual empowerment, providing timely access to psychological interventions for those experiencing mental ill-health and improving outcomes for those using them. This study aims to determine the efficacy of digital/e-health interventions for individuals detained in prison who experience mental ill-health.

A systematic search of five academic databases – CINAHL, ASSIA, PsycINFO, Embase and Medline – was completed in December 2020 and updated in February 2022. The review was guided by the Whittemore and Knafl (2005) framework for integrative reviews. A total of 6,255 studies were returned and screened by title and abstract. A full-text screening of nine (n = 9) studies was conducted.

No study met the inclusion criteria for the clinical efficacy of digital/e-health interventions in a prison setting. Subsequently, a review of the literature that made it to the full-text review stage was conducted, and gaps in the literature were identified to inform policy, practice and future research.

To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first integrative review conducted on the efficacy of digital/e-health interventions for mental ill-health in prison settings.

Stress at workplace is quite common in all sorts of environment. It can be occurring when the demand in the job does not match with the requirements; thereby, it affects their performance. The study was conducted with the aim to identify the major factors that induce stress for teaching professionals in private engineering colleges and its impact towards job performance. From the observation and discussion, it was found that Workload, Working Hour, Salary, Role Ambiguity and Lack of Social Support are the major factors for stress.

A structured questionnaire was framed with the help of stress-causing factors and their effect on job performance. In addition to this, a few questions were asked related to stress management intervention program. The survey was conducted with 370 respondents, while further analysis was carried out with the filled 260 respondent’s data using descriptive statistics, correlation, regression, ANOVA and SEM.

The study reveals that workload plays a significant role in stress whereas other factors are consequently lower than that. Also, the primary-level intervention programs are more effective than secondary-level intervention programs to reduce the stress level of stressors.

The paper was originally done by collecting data from the staff.