Objectives: The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) is a widely used screening instrument. The purpose of this study was to evaluate reliability and validity of the Hungarian translation. Methods: The English version of the HADS was translated using the 'forward-backward' procedure. The questionnaire was used in a large scale study of 678 Hungarian cancer patients along with other scre...

OBJECTIVES Familial caregivers of demented patients suffer from high levels of burden of care, but the literature is sparse regarding the prevalence and predictors of burnout in this group. Burnout is composed of three dimensions: emotional exhaustion (EE), depersonalization (DP) and reduced personal accomplishment (RPA). We aimed to investigate the associations between burnout dimensions and t...

BACKGROUND Over the last 30 years, frontal EEG asymmetry has been investigated with regards to the study of emotion, motivation, and psychopathology. METHOD We analyzed the frontal alpha asymmetry, depressive symptoms with a Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and quality of life with a Short Form Health Survey-36® (SF-36®) in depressed (n=12), remitted (n=8) and non-depressed (n=7) elderly subje...

In a two stage study of depression, 200 patients attending primary care were randomly investigated. All patients were screened using Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) (Beck & Beamesderfer, 1974) and were interviewed using Clinical Interview for Depression (CID) (Paykel, 1985). Sixty (30%) patients crossed BDI threshold for moderate or severe depression. On CID, forty two (21%) had depression. Bei...

OBJECTIVE Given the importance of children's development and the role of psychological status of mothers in this regard, this study investigated the relationship of mothers' psychological status (stress, anxiety and depression) with the development of children aged 36-60 months. MATERIALS & METHODS This descriptive study was performed on 1036 mothers and their children, aged 36 to 60 months, ...

BACKGROUND Diabetes is a metabolic disorder with a high worldwide prevalence. It has been reported that diabetic patients are more prone to depression and anxiety. 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. MATERIALS AND METHODS One hund...

objective: major depression is a mood disorder that causes changes in physical activity, appetite, sleep and weight. regarding the role of zinc in the pathology of depression, the present study was aimed to investigate the effects of zinc supplementation in the treatment of this disease. methods: this study was a double-blind randomized clinical trial. forty four patients with major depression ...

Diabetes mellitus is one of the global health problems which can leads complications, include kidney failure, blindness, stroke and amputation body parts. Problems complications that arise in DM lead to depression. Depression arises because it influenced by many psychological factors, both directly indirectly. Supportive group therapy openly used express thoughts emotions. conduct patient excha...

an adaptation of standard cognitive-behavioral therapy, for 26 mothers with depression. All mothers were concurrently receiving home visitation services from either a Healthy Families America (HFA) or Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) agency. Pretreatment and posttreatment assessments were conducted using the Primary Care Evaluation of Mental Disorders (PRIME-MD), the Beck Depression Inventory-II ...