BACKGROUND The relationship between anxiety and depression in pain patients has not been clarified comprehensively. Previous research has identified a common factor in anxiety and depression, which may explain why depression and anxiety are strongly correlated. However, the specific clinical features of anxiety and depression seem to pull in opposite directions. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this ...

Using a vernacular adaptation of MAS 50 bronchial asthma patients were compared with 102 normals, 60 hospital general out-patients and 50 neurotics to determine the level of anxiety in asthma. The manifest anxiety scores of the bronchial asthma patients were found to be significantly high showing that their level of anxiety was abnormally higher in comparison with that of the normals and the ho...

this study aimed to determine the prevalence of anxiety among prostate cancer patients, and to ascertain the association between stress status, socio-demographic, medical and surgical illness, current urinary problem and cancer status with general health-related quality of life (hrqol) among these patients.a hospital based, cross sectional study was conducted at surgical clinic, university mala...

this article reports the results of an epidemiology of mental disorders among adults above 15 years in urben areas of kashan city. data were gathered using general health questionnaire (28- items version) and clinical interview based on dsm-iv. results showed the total prevalence of mental disorders, were about 23.75%. more prevalent were mood disorder, (%11.75). anxiety disorder, (%11.15) and ...

OBJECTIVE Depression and anxiety significantly affect morbidity in Huntington's disease. Mice. models of Huntington's disease have identified sex differences in mood-like behaviours that vary across disease lifespan, but this interaction has not previously been explored in humans with Huntington's disease. However, among certain medical populations, evidence of sex differences in mood across va...