background : china has become an aging society, and the mental health problem of the elderly is increasingly becom-ing prominent. this paper aimed to analyze the effect of air pollution and rural-urban difference on mental health of the elderly in china. methods : using the data from the china health and retirement longitudinal survey (charls, 2013), after control-ling the social demography var...

background: to test if social support and ethnicity mediate/moderate the association between religion involvement and subjective health in the united states. methods: this is a secondary analysis of national survey of american life, 2003. hierarchical regression was fit to a national household probability sample of adult african americans ( n = 3570), caribbean blacks ( n = 1621), and whites ( ...

results it was found that mothers of the case group had a greater susceptibility to depression than those of the control group, that is, breastfeeding status was directly associated with susceptibility to depression (p = 0.001, or = 5.48). furthermore, there was a significant association between basic characteristics such as maternal occupational status (p = 0.04) or their educations (p = 0.006...

objective: marital adjustment has been regarded as an important issue in chronic illnesses. some studies have addressed the effect of viral hepatitis on patients' spouses but there is still limited information on the topic. this study has compared marital adjustment in patients suffering from different stages of viral hepatitis with that of a healthy population. methods: in a cross-sectional st...

objective: there have been concerns about people with mental health problems experiencing harassment in the iranian community. this study measures the prevalence and nature of harassment experienced by individuals with mental health problems and compares them with the general population. methods : face to face interviews were conducted by trained interviewers to ascertain experiences of harassm...

background: anxiety, depression, and other adverse psychological reactions are often observed in elderly hypertensive patients. appropriate exercise is a safe form of adjuvant therapy without causing side effects among these patients, with consistent effects on patients’ mental health. in this study, a collective exercise intervention experiment was conducted to evaluate the mental health of el...

post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) is a common mental health condition among military veterans, and research indicates that lifetime prevalence rates of ptsd among military veterans are higher than that of the general population (samhsa, 2007). the treatment of ptsd is often complicated by issues of comorbidity, such as substance use disorders, and treatment outcomes are poorer when comorbid...

we typically think of acutely and chronically mentally ill patients as those who belong in psychiatric hospitals and the latter category of patients belonging in “regular” hospitals, but the intersection of physical and mental illness draws attention to important challenges for policy-makers and organizational leaders. this article illuminates some broad trends in the health status of people wi...

introduction: in light of the importance of mental health in today life, attending to mental health of the youth to pave the way for a better future is of paramount importance. various factors can influence mental health, one of which is the quality of attachment to and trust in god. the aim of this paper was to examine the capability of this quality so as to predict the mental health of tehran...