BACKGROUND Randomized trial evaluated problem-solving therapy in home care (PSTHC) for homebound older adults with cardiovascular disease receiving acute home care services. This study hypothesized that compared with usual care plus education intervention, home-based PST-HC would significantly reduce depression and anxiety scores, lead to improved quality of life, and greater satisfaction with ...

OBJECTIVE To review the psychometric properties of the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) as a self-report measure of depression in a variety of settings and populations. METHODS Relevant studies of the BDI-II were retrieved through a search of electronic databases, a hand search, and contact with authors. Retained studies (k = 118) were allocated into three groups: non-clinical, psychiatr...

background: none of the contraceptive methods are fully side-effect free. one of the side effects that commonly causes discontinuation is mood changes and depression. the present study aimed to compare the depression between contraceptive methods including low-dose estrogen (ld) combined pills, condom and intrauterine devices (iud). materials and methods: in a cross-sectional study, 216 women w...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the correlation between depression levels with coping styles and cognitive errors in women treated for breast cancer. METHODS A total of 110 breast cancer outpatients who had had surgery at least 6 months previously, had completed adjuvant cancer treatment and had not experienced metastasis or recurrent lesions were evaluated. The Automatic T...

BACKGROUND Systematic studies of the efficacy of Narrative Therapy (NT) for depression are sparse. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of individual NT for moderate depression in adults compared to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT). METHOD Sixty-three depressed clients were assigned to either NT or CBT. The Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) and Outcome Questionnaire-45.2 (OQ-45.2) were ...

OBJECTIVE This study examined associations between the composition and diversity of the intestinal microbiota and measures of depression, anxiety, eating disorder psychopathology, stress, and personality in a group of healthy adult females. METHODS Female participants (n = 91) ages 19-50 years with BMI 18.5-25 kg/m2 were recruited from central North Carolina between July 2014 and March 2015. ...

E pilepsy is the most prevalent chronic CNS disorder in the general population. Approximately 45 million people are epileptic throughout the world. The prevalence of depression among these patients is twice more than individuals suffering from other non diagnosed or partially treated disabling conditions. 1 If such a consequence of epilepsy is not treated, it could bring other consequences, suc...

Two hundred thirty-eight first-year college students were assessed using the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Thirty students meeting the BDI criteria for moderate to severe depression were randomly assigned to either a treatment or control group. The treatment group received four 90-minute group sessions of EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), a novel treatment that combines exposure, cognitive...

BACKGROUND For some phenomena the mean of population distributions predicts the proportion of people exceeding a threshold value. AIMS To investigate whether in depression, too, the population mean predicts the number of individuals at the extreme end of the distribution. METHOD We used data from the European Outcome in Depression International Network (ODIN) study from populations in Finla...