BACKGROUND Studies have shown that unaccompanied refugee children have elevated symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, anxiety, and externalizing problems. Few studies have examined change in this group's mental health symptoms after resettlement in a new country, particularly for those who arrive to a host country when being under the age of 15. METHOD The sample incl...

OBJECTIVE To examine changes in sitting time (ST) in women over nine years and to identify associations between life events and these changes. METHODS Young (born 1973-78, n=5215) and mid-aged (born 1946-51, n=6973) women reported life events and ST in four surveys of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health between 2000 and 2010. Associations between life events and changes in ST ...

objective: experiencing ‎pleasant events during daily life ‎has a significant positive role in ‎the personal mental health and ‎acts as a keystone for “behavioral ‎activation” (ba) interventions. ‎there are serious differences in ‎the pleasant event schedules in ‎different cultures and countries. ‎we aimed to develop a persian ‎checklist of pleasant events ‎‎(pcpe) to provide and validate a ‎cu...

Outbreaks of psoriasis usually can be linked with traumatic life stress events. Stressful life events in response to psychosocial trigger have been reported to negatively affect the course of psoriasis and are regarded as preventable causes of morbidity. Aims of this study were to determine which coping strategies are mostly used in psoriatic patients and to determine if there is a difference i...