BACKGROUND Even though mental disorders represent a major public health problem for women and respective children, there remains a lack of epidemiological longitudinal studies to assess the psychological status of women throughout pregnancy and later in life. This epidemiological cohort study assessed the relationship between mental disorders of 409 Brazilian women in pregnancy and 5-8 years af...

BACKGROUND An earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale struck the Niigata-Chuetsu region of Japan at 5.56 P.M. on the 23rd of October, 2004. The earthquake was followed by sustained occurrence of numerous aftershocks, which delayed reconstruction of community lifelines. Even one year after the earthquake, 9,160 people were living in temporary housing. Such a devastating earthquake and life...

OBJECTIVES The number of elderly workers has also been increasing and poor psychological well-being in elderly workers has been reported. The aim of this study is to elucidate the factors that are related to poor psychological well-being in elderly workers. METHODS We administered General Health Questionnaire-12 (GHQ-12) as an indicator of psychological well-being to 330 male elderly workers ...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this secondary analysis was to examine the relationships between a reduction in psychological distress and long-term cardiac and psychological outcomes in post-myocardial infarction patients who participated in a randomized trial of home-based psychosocial nursing interventions (the Montreal Heart Attack Readjustment Trial [M-HART]). Gender differences were considered...

background : a multidimensional approach to health which addresses the psychological features of health justifies the necessity of designing or validation of brief instruments for screening in general population. this study aims to evaluate the reliability and validity of the persian version of the who-5-p as a brief scale of well-being. methods : in this study 451 individuals, i.e., over-15-ye...

F ibromyalgia is a chronic condition characterized by body aches, widespread pain, sleep problems, extreme fatigue, depression, anxiety, and other symptoms, in combination with tenderness of specific areas (muscles and tender points) on the body. Recently, Gormsen et al 1 reported that patients with fibromyalgia had significantly more mental distress including depression and anxiety than health...

Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the overall health and happiness of healthy mothers of children with sleep disorder. Methods and material: This study was cross sectional study. To collect data from general health questionnaire (GHQ -28) with 28 questions and four subscales (somatic disorders, anxiety, social dysfunction and depression) and Oxford happiness questionnaire on five facto...

BACKGROUND Rhinoplasty is the most common operation performed by our facial plastic surgery unit. Recognition of patients with psychological problems which may result in an unfavourable post-operative outcome is essential. The objective of this study was to evaluate the psychological status of patients seeking rhinoplasty, compared with the general population. METHODS We prospectively collect...