Objective: Framed in the patients' engagement perspective, the current study aims to determine the effects of group music therapy in addition to drug care in comparison with drug care in addition to other non-expressive group activities in the treatment of psychiatric outpatients. Method: Participants (n = 27) with ICD-10 diagnoses of F20 (schizophrenia), F25 (schizoaffective disorders), F31 (b...

Background: Individual resistance to burdens such as stress, adversity, and even disasters is called “resilience”. Whereas most studies of resilience investigate post-traumatic stress disorder, fewer studies treat anxiety and depressiveness in mentally healthy populations. The present pilot study investigates whether resilience lessens the severity of depressive symptoms. Aim was to figure out ...

• Infectious mononucleosis is often associated with prolonged fatigue. The association depression was unclear since large-scale studies were lacking. This prospective cohort study included 12,510 individuals the infection. a 40% increased risk for depression. significant to period one year or later after clinical diagnosis characterized by fever, sore throat, lymph node enlargement and fatigue,...

Emerging market economies are fertile ground for the development of real estate and other financial bubbles. Despite these economies’ significant growth potential, their corporate and government sectors do not generate the financial instruments to provide residents with adequate stores of value. Capital often flows out of these economies seeking these stores of value in the developed world. Bub...

This paper provides a comparative assessment of the e¤ectiveness of macroprudential policies in 12 Asia-Paci…c economies, using comprehensive databases of domestic macroprudential policies and capital ‡ow management (CFM) policies. We …nd that banking sector CFM polices and bond market CFM policies are effective in slowing down banking in‡ows and bond in‡ows, respectively. We also …nd some evid...

I provide a framework for understanding the global financial architecture as an equilibrium outcome of the risk sharing between countries with different levels of financial development. The country that has the most developed financial sector takes on a larger proportion of global fundamental and financial risk because its financial intermediaries are better able to deal with funding problems f...

Sovereign default in emerging countries is accompanied by interest rates spikes, deep recessions, and sharp real exchange rate devaluations. This paper develops a two sector small open economy model to study default risk and its interaction with output, consumption and real exchange rates. Default probabilities and interest rates depend on incentives for repayment. Default occurs in equilibrium...

We provide a theory of the determination of exchange rates based on capital flows in imperfect financial markets. Capital flows drive exchange rates by altering the balance sheets of financiers that bear the risks resulting from international imbalances in the demand for financial assets. Such alterations to their balance sheets cause financiers to change their required compensation for holding...

OBJECTIVE Depression is a major cause of disability in working populations and the reduction of socioeconomic inequalities in disability is an important public health challenge. We examined work disability due to depression with four indicators of socioeconomic status. METHODS A prospective cohort study of 125 355 Finnish public sector employees was linked to national register data on work di...