For the last 10 years, data have been accumulating indicating that, contrary to former evidence, lithium may play a useful role in the treatment of certain schizophrenic patients. Delva & Letemendia (1982), after reviewing major controlled and uncontrolled studies in this area, concluded that “¿ between one third and one-half of patients with schizophrenia will benefit from lithium―. In two...

Covid-19 pandemic has a direct and indirect impact on human life. Therefore, the purpose of present study is to investigate relationship between feelings loneliness mental health among single adults during in addition examining social support coping strategies as mediators, well gender moderator. A total 399 respondents (aged 25 39) become through convenience sampling. Spearman Correlation anal...

The current study contributes to our understanding of workaholism as a negative construct, and to its measurement by examining the psychometric properties of a short 10-item workaholism scale called DUWAS (Dutch Work Addiction Scale). Confirmatory factor analyses were carried out in a heterogeneous sample of 2,714 employees from the Netherlands (n= 2,164) and Spain (n= 550). The results confirm...

The participants in the NIMH-MATRICS Consensus Development Conference on Negative Symptoms recommended that an instrument be developed that measured blunted affect, alogia, asociality, anhedonia, and avolition. The Brief Negative Symptom Scale (BNSS) is a 13-item instrument designed for clinical trials and other studies that measures these 5 domains. The interrater, test-retest, and internal co...

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Background & aim: Childbirth is a stressful event in women’s lives, and if a mother perceives it as an unpleasant event, it can influence her postpartum mental health. Depression is a common mental disorder, which can has serious consequences depending on its severity. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effect of debriefing and brief cognitive-behavioral therapy on postpartum depres...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess the validity of the Patient Health Questionnaire depression module (PHQ-9). It has been subject to studies in medical settings, but its validity as a screening for depression in the general population is unknown. METHOD A representative population sample (2,066 subjects, 14-93 years) filled in the PHQ-9 for diagnosis [major depressive disorder, ot...

In particular, countries need to plan for the health needs of older women. Although the elderly are as diverse demographically, socially, and economically as the nonelderly, one notable difference between these broad groups is the relative number of men and women. While boys outnumber girls in all countries, gender differences in mortality eventually produce a changing sex balance within a popu...