Background Lower cortisol concentrations in adulthood were repeatedly associated with more severe childhood maltreatment. Additionally, maltreatment was reported to promote health risk behavior, such as smoking or alcohol consumption, and increase the of mental somatic diseases during adulthood, major depressive disorders obesity. The present study investigated if behavior disease symptoms adul...

Aim: Although primarily known as a respiratory system pathology, COVID-19 may cause various systems and serious complications including neuropsychiatric problems. These be formulized post-COVID syndrome. The current study aims to investigate prolonged cognitive, somatic psychiatric effects of COVID-19. 
 Material Method: A total number 120 survivors were compared with health controls in me...

conclusions the prevalence of htn was lower in elderly community-living iranians than developed countries, yet, was still considerable. nocturia and hyperlipidemia were the most common health complaints in iranian elderly with htn. results hypertension was seen in 48.5% of individuals. awareness, treatment, and control of htn were seen in 40.7%, 82.5%, and 30% of individuals, respectively. elde...

People in cultural or geographic transition are at a greater risk for somatization (Hull, 1979). The aim of this qualitative study is to understand the emotional experiences 19-25 years old international students from East Turkestan with somatic comlaints, which constitutes minority group Turkey. To that aim, we used Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis as our research method. 14 semi-structu...

BACKGROUND In our research we examined the frequency of somatic symptoms among bereaved (N = 185) and non-bereaved men and women in a national representative sample (N = 4041) and investigated the possible mediating factors between bereavement status and somatic symptoms. METHODS Somatic symptoms were measured by the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-15), anxiety with a four-point anxiety rat...