This letter intends to discuss how CoVID-19 pandemic and its related preventive measures such as maintaining social distance and reducing social and intimate relationships can affect the formation of domestic violence. It also points to the need for families to provide psychological support in dealing with this epidemic.

Objective: To evaluate the influence of psychological status on back pain and clinical assessments in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) patients. Methods: Three hundreds and Fourteen AS patients were enrolled into the study. Self-rating anxiety Scale (SAS), Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS), pain-visual analogue scale (VAS), Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index (BASDAI), and Functional...

This article highlights recent studies on novel psychological and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) approaches for acute/procedural and chronic/recurrent pediatric pain. Computerized databases were searched from 1996-2006 to identify controlled trials on CAM therapies and psychological interventions that extended beyond traditional cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), defined as clini...

BACKGROUND In 2014, the world was startled by a sudden outbreak of Ebola. Although Ebola infections and deaths occurred almost exclusively in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia, few potential Western cases, in particular, caused a great stir among the public in Western countries. OBJECTIVE This study builds on the construal level theory to examine the relationship between psychological distanc...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Psychological distance refers to how far and how long ago an event feels to a person and how distant this person feels from their past self who experienced the event. Psychological distance is related to the recollective experience of the memory, but people with PTSD and depression remember positive and negative events differently. Whereas people with depression tend t...