conclusions depression and anxiety have higher prevalence among diabetic patients and some sociological factors such as age, gender, job and education are related to these psychological disorders. objectives this study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of depression and anxiety among diabetic patients with regards to some factors such as age, gender, level of education and occupational status. m...

the main purpose of the present study was to investigate the multiple relationships between early maladaptive schemas, parenting styles and coping styles with anxiety. therefore, a sample consisting of 200 students, from islamic azad university of karaj, were selected by multistage cluster sampling method. the research instruments were beck anxiety inventory (1988), short form of young early ma...

Fear and anxiety in a child undergoing surgery are correlated positively with the parent's level of anxiety, and interventions to decrease the parent's anxiety are appropriate. The purpose of this study was to determine whether viewing a video of an actual pediatric inhalation induction would reduce the level of parental anxiety. Eighty patients requiring an inhalation anesthetic induction were...

BACKGROUND A significant increase in myopia among children and teenagers can be observed all over the world. Yet at the same time, there is still an insignificant number of studies concerning this health problem. The aim of this study was to assess the level of trait anxiety among myopic group of teenagers in comparison to teenagers with emmetropia, and to confirm whether the level of trait anx...

the present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between the perceived social self-efficacy of the students of english and their foreign language classroom anxiety. the required data were gathered through the application of the original versions of two standard questionnaires: smith and betz’s (2000) 25-item scale of perceived social self-efficacy (spsse) and horwitz, horwitz and...

based on bowen family systems theory, one of the sources of chronic anxiety is the level of differentiation of self or emotional maturity in the family of origin: the lower level of differentiation results in less adaptiveness to stress, higher chronic anxiety in a relationship system, greater strain on adaptive capabilities and higher health problems and anxiety disorders. so, the goal of this...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Preoperative Anxiety is a negative factor in anesthetic and surgical experience. Among the strategies for reducing children's anxiety, non-pharmacological strategies are as important as the pharmacological ones, but its validity is still controversial. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to verify if the information provided to guardians interferes with child anxiet...

STUDY DESIGN A prospective, nonrandomized study. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of periodic intraoperative text messages (SMS) in reducing parental anxiety level during posterior spinal fusion (PSF) surgery for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) patients. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA No studies have reported the use of intraoperative SMS to reduce level of anxiety in parents of pa...