BACKGROUND Negative trends in adolescent mental and subjective health are a challenge to public health work in Sweden and worldwide. Self-reported mental and subjective health complaints such as pain, sleeping problems, anxiety, and various stress-related problems seem to have increased over time among older adolescents, especially girls. The aim of this study has therefore been to investigate ...

Heart rate variability (HRV) is an established indication of cardiovascular regulation and is often not only considered in relation to health, but also to subjective aspects of perceived affect. However, as the various HRV parameters are not identical but interrelated, they vary in regard to different aspects of every-day moods, stress, and depression. Therefore it is suggested that those HRV p...

backgrounddiabetes type i (dti) is one of the most common endocrine disorders during childhood and adolescents in which has strong impact on physical and emotional development of individuals with family members. we aimed to evaluate of stress, anxiety and depression in parents with dti child compared with parents with healthy child.materials and methodsin this case – control study, 60 parents o...

background: the workers of mines, during a working day, are exposed to stress and psychological pressure that certainly affect the efficiency of their work. this study aimed to determine the level of stress, anxiety, and depression in workers of one copper mine in kerman province, iran. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, 250 workers of the operation unit of one copper mine in...

BACKGROUND Given emerging evidence of the association between stress and disease, practitioners need a tool for measuring stress. Several instruments exist to measure perceived stress; however, none of them are applicable for population surveys because stress conceptualization can differ by population. The aim of this study was to develop and validate the Perceived Stress Inventory (PSI) and it...

A pooled database from diverse community samples was used to examine the associations of hair cortisol concentration (HCC) with self-reported stress and stress-linked mental health measures, including depression, anxiety, alcohol and drug use, disability and experiences with aggression. As part of innovative research using a mobile laboratory to study community mental health, data were pooled f...

The authors investigated the extent to which social support and coping account for the association between greater optimism and better adjustment to stressful life events. College students of both genders completed measures of perceived stress, depression, friendship network size, and perceived social support at the beginning and end of their 1st semester of college. Coping was assessed at the ...

background: programs for improving health status of patients with illness related to pain, such as headache, are often still in their infancy. mindfulness-based stress reduction (mbsr) is a new psychotherapy that appears to be effective in treating chronic pain and stress. this study evaluated effi cacy of mbsr in treatment of perceived stress and mental health of client who has tension headach...