objectives: culture may place a differential emphasis on particular emotions. the aim of this study is to find the most frequent symptoms in patients with major depressive disorder in tehran. method: 509 patients were recruited from 5 treatment settings. the sample was used from the project of assessing psychometric properties of cidi in the iranian population. the patients were evaluated by co...

abstract background cancer diagnosis may cause deep emotional and affective problems in patients and their families.nowadays, however, despite its rising prevalence,cancer is no longer synonymous with death. given the significance of emotional well-being in cancer patients, we decided to assess the frequency of psychological problems in seven to seventeen yearolds with acute lymphoblastic leuke...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) patients with anxiety and/or depressive symptoms may not receive the care they need. Provision of care requires insight into the factors affecting these psychiatric symptoms. The study was designed to examine the extent to which: (1) IBD patients with anxiety and/or depressive symptoms receive mental treatment and (2) clinical and socio-demog...

Results: The results of regression analyses demonstrated that the relationship between worry and depressive symptoms is significant only if individuals engage in high levels of brooding type rumination. The main effect of worry was a significant predictor of trait anxiety, but it did not make a significant contribution to somatic anxiety. Brooding was found to be associated not only with depres...

ôbjective: working women are predisposed to some psychiatric symptoms or disorders due to their life styles or working conditions such as long working hours, being away from their children during the day, and having various roles as an employee, a spouse, mother and a housekeeper, which creates daily stress, feelings of guilt, anxiety, dysphoric mood or interpersonal problems, all of which may ...

BACKGROUND Many veterans deployed after 9/11/2001 are impacted by subthreshold levels of posttraumatic stress, anxiety, or other psychological health problems that may interfere with successful reintegration. Conventional treatments, including medication and trauma-focused individual psychotherapies, may not be optimally adapted, accepted, or effective to treat these subsyndromal symptoms. ME...

INTRODUCTION Anxiety and depression are found in 20-30% of all persons with heart disease, and depression is known to impact mortality. This paper aimed to describe the effect of systematic screening of this population in terms of use of general practice, psychological therapy and antidepressant treatment. METHODS A population-based cohort study was conducted in 2011-2013 comprising 1,658 peo...

OBJECTIVE To explore the measurement of subsyndromal mood symptoms in relation to studies of maintenance therapy for bipolar disorder. METHODS Literature review of the Medline database using the following selection criteria: (1) 'bipolar disorder' plus 'inter-episode or interepisode or subsyndromal or subclinical or residual or subthreshold' and (2) 'bipolar disorder' plus 'maintenance or pro...

BACKGROUND Nosological boundaries for depressive disorders as well as the prevalence and impact of 'subsyndromal' depression remain unclear. AIMS To examine the impact of subsyndromal depressive disorders on health status and to assess if depressive disorders lie on a continuum of severity. METHOD The sample was composed of randomly selected respondents from the general population in 68 cou...

BACKGROUND Prior studies have reported inconsistent findings regarding the link between antenatal depressive and anxiety symptomatology, with neonatal outcomes. OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was to assess the possible association of prenatal depressive and anxiety symptoms, in the third trimester of pregnancy, with perinatal outcomes (birth weight of the newborn, Apgar score and the...