OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of the severity and course of depressive symptoms on change in quality of life (QOL) 6 months after cardiac surgery. METHODS Ninety patients were interviewed before heart surgery and 2 and 6 months after surgery. Depressive symptoms were assessed using the Beck Depression Inventory, and QOL was assessed using physical and psychoso...

Objective: The present study describes the process of translation into Brazilian Portuguese and the cross-cultural adaptation of the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory and the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory-Revised scales. The Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory was developed with the purpose of measuring the intensity of the various symptoms that characterize the obsessive-compulsive disorder, assessin...

Multidimensional Inventory Check List of Symptoms (SCL-90-r) is based on self-evaluation and it has been used for determination of level of: somatisation, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobias, paranoia and psychosis at persons which are exposed to long term emotional and physical stress. Our goal was to determine relations of physical...

BACKGROUND Depression is widely recognized as a risk factor in patients with coronary heart disease. However, patients with heart failure (HF) have been less frequently studied, and the effect of depression on prognosis, independent of disease severity, is uncertain. METHODS Two hundred four outpatients having a diagnosis of HF, with a ventricular ejection fraction of 40% or less, underwent b...

aim and background: emotion focused couple therapy is one of the methods that has focused on the negative cycles of interaction caused from deep emotional vulnerability. the purpose of this study was to determine the effect of emotionally focused couple therapy on reducing the damage caused by marital infidelity. methods and materials: the statistical sample included 30 couples that were select...

BACKGROUND Psychological responses have been reported for some patients after the insertion of an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD). This study tested the effects of a psychoeducational intervention on anxiety, depressive symptoms, functional status, and health resource use during the first year after ICD implantation. METHODS ICD patients (n = 246) were randomized to usual care (U...

Materials and methods A total of 30 subjects, aged more than 60 years old, with either MCI (n = 16) or control group (n = 14) were studied. Neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) were assessed using the Neuropsychiatric Inventory scale(NPI). Individual subscores of the 10 NPI symptoms and total NPI scores were compared between the MCI patients and control patients. We identified the prevalence of the ...

INTRODUCTION This article studies the relationship between emotional reactivity and coping style on the one hand and intensity of symptoms of trauma in adult patients with cancer on the other hand. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study was conducted on 150 patients, 55 women and 95 men, hospitalized for diagnosed cancer. Temperament was assessed with the Formal Characteristics of Behaviour - Tempera...

UNLABELLED A significant minority of bereaved adults develops prolonged grief disorder (PGD), a syndrome encompassing debilitating symptoms of grief distinct from depression and anxiety. Few studies have examined the phenomenology and correlates of PGD among children and adolescents. In part, this is due to the lack of a psychometrically sound questionnaire to assess PGD symptoms in these group...