OBJECTIVES To investigate the prevalence rate and influencing factors of preoperative anxiety and depression in patients with gastric cancer, in China. METHODS Patients with gastric cancer who were diagnosed by gastroscopy and would accept laparoscopic surgery were eligible for the study. Each participant completed self-administered questionnaires, including the Hospital Anxiety and Depressio...

INTRODUCTION The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) is widely used to predict and diagnose hospital anxiety and depression. It has been translated and validated in many languages, but the existing Arabic version was not validated in hospitalized patients. The aim was to translate, culturally adapt, and validate the HADS Questionnaire into Arabic language for in-patient use, especially...

to determine the level of anxiety and depression in hospitalized patients in surgical and internal departments. a cross sectional study on 359 hospitalized patients who were recruited from internal and surgical wards of khatam alanbia hospital. hospital anxiety and depression scale was used to collect information. borderline cases of anxiety and depression were 26.7% and 24.8%. probable cases o...

OBJECTIVE This study assessed the efficacy of two fixed doses of paroxetine in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder. METHOD Outpatients (N=566) with generalized anxiety disorder and no other axis I disorder were eligible if they scored >/=20 on the Hamilton Rating Scale for Anxiety (with a score of 2 or higher on the anxious mood and tension items). Following a 1-week placebo run-in ...

Results: Ninety-nine cryotherapy sessions performed among 35 children were evaluated. Fifteen children underwent cryotherapy during the preintervention phase only, and 13 children underwent cryotherapy during the intervention phase only. The mean modified Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale scores were 58.4 during the preintervention phase and 37.7 during the intervention phase (P=.005). The percen...

Background: The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is regarded as the biggest global health crisis in recent decades. The changes in major life domains due to infection control strategies resemble the functional impairment consequential to emotional distress and place many people at greater risk of psychiatric conditions. Meanwhile, the COVID-19 pandemic and associated social distanci...

Good health is an essential aspect of human well-being and overall lifestyle. Attention must be given to actions capable maintaining good well-being. Thus, participating in regular exercise integral health-promoting behavior. However, it observed that despite the benefits associated with participation, most individuals still live a sedentary lifestyle, especially youth. The primary purpose this...

The Spence's children anxiety scale is proposed to measure anxiety in 6-12 years old based on the APA (DSM-IV, 1994) classification system. The scale includes six correlated factors of separation anxiety, social phobia, obsessive-compulsive, panic with agoraphobia, generalized anxiety, disorders and fear of physical injury. The scale was validated using a confirmatory-exploratory factor analysi...