BACKGROUND Nicotinism is the most common addiction in Poland. Nicotine dependence is the cause of numerous behavioral diseases, including ischemic heart disease, neoplasms and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. A question arises whether a tendency to anxiety and depressive reactions, as well as the strategies of coping with stressful situations, is involved in the clinical presentation of t...

Material and methods: A total of 57 PE teachers, age 25-59 years (M=40.5±9.02), volunteered to participate in the current study. The participants were graduate (MEd) students at an academic college in the southern part of Israel. The participants were randomly divided into three groups: LMA (n=20), BFB relaxation games (n=22); and Control (n=15). Two questionnaires were used to measure anxiety:...

CONTEXT Therapeutic massage has been proven to be an effective, nonpharmacologic, alternative for managing state and trait anxiety in a variety of clinical situations. However, no controlled study has investigated this effect in an addiction treatment setting. AIM The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of chair massage for reducing anxiety in persons participating in an in...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to determine the effects of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment on depression, anxiety, and perceived stress levels and to identify factors predictive of treatment efficacy in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS). METHOD This study included 51 patients admitted to the Adiyaman University Medical School Otorhinolaryngology De...

the current study aimed to examine the role of state-trait anxiety and resiliency in test anxiety. the research was conducted on a sample of 153 high students who completed questionnaire measures of state-trait anxiety (stai-t), trait resilience (cd-risc) and test anxiety (ta).  pearson correlation and regression analyze were used to data analyze. consistent with the assumption, results indicat...

The aim. Assessment of the initial psychological status men with first diagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis and study its associations clinical course disease.
 Materials methods. involved 54 tuberculosis. Patients had a dynamic complex clinical, laboratory instrumental examination an assessment according to State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) Beck Depression (BDI).
 Results. evaluating ...

Aim: This study aimed to determine preoperative anxiety and pain levels in patients who underwent craniotomy investigate the effects on development of postoperative acute-chronic pain. Materials Methods: In this prospective, observational study, STAI-I (State-Trait Anxiety Inventory) STAI-II were used measure a total 104 craniotomy, visual analog score (VAS) was Demographic data patients, ASA (...

PURPOSE The aim of the study was to assess the level of emotion control, anxiety, and self-efficacy in the inhabitants of Bialystok (Poland) aged above 60. PATIENTS AND METHODS The study included 300 people above the age of 60, inhabitants of Bialystok and its neighborhoods: 100 residents of public nursing home, 100 participants of the University of the Third Age in Bialystok, and 100 student...

PURPOSE The aim of the study was to evaluate quality of life and to assess frequency and severity of depressive and anxiety symptoms in hyperthyroid patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS Forty-seven hyperthyroid patients (38 female, 9 male, mean age 51.4 +/- 13.0; 25-Graves disease, 22 - nodular goitre) and fifty-eight sex- and age-matched controls (40 female, 18 male, mean age 49.6 +/- 16.0) were s...

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...