INTRODUCTION Comorbidity of chronic tinnitus and mental disorders may result in more disability. OBJECTIVES This research provides an evaluation about the effects of medically treated comorbid mental disorder on chronic tinnitus. MATERIALS AND METHODS Fifty-five patients diagnosed with chronic tinnitus and mental disorders were randomly requited by producing a before-after design. They unde...

OBJECTIVE Poststroke depression has been linked to higher mortality after stroke. However, the effect of other mental health conditions on poststroke mortality has not been examined. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of poststroke depression and other mental health diagnoses on mortality after ischemic stroke. METHOD The authors examined a national cohort of veterans hosp...

BACKGROUND No study has assessed the cost of treating adult Medicaid cancer patients with preexisting chronic conditions. This information is essential for understanding the cost of cancer care to the Medicaid program above that expended for other chronic conditions, given the increasing prevalence of chronic conditions among cancer patients. RESEARCH DESIGN We used administrative data from 3...

CONTEXT The place of long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy (LTPP) within psychiatry is controversial. Convincing outcome research for LTPP has been lacking. OBJECTIVE To examine the effects of LTPP, especially in complex mental disorders, ie, patients with personality disorders, chronic mental disorders, multiple mental disorders, and complex depressive and anxiety disorders (ie, associated w...

Previous epidemiological surveys for chronic pain noted that the most prevalent location of is lower back. It known in low back patients, quality life, especially mental health, poor. In addition, group which a discrepancy arose between disability and severity found some associated factors, such as feeling stress, less satisfaction their job relationship with coworkers. Social psychological fac...

Objective: Diabetes is now known as one of the chronic diseases that besides body have negative effects on the psychological status of patients. The present study aimed to assess the physical and mental attributes of patients to evaluate and compare life expectancy and mental health among diabetic patients with normal ones. Materials and Methods: This was an analytic cross-sectional study, tha...

Objective: Social determinant of health (SDH) are different from medical care and services. These factors themselves are affected by social policies, and they influence health more than medical care and services do. Due to the importance of chronic non-communicable diseases especially diabetes in Yazd, and assuming the effect of SDH, the present study was conducted in order to examine the relat...

In the 1950s, when I wrote The Myth of Mental Illness, the notion that it is the responsibility of the federal government to provide "health care" to the American people had not yet entered national consciousness. Most persons called mental patients were then considered "chronic" and incurable and were confined in state mental hospitals. The physicians who cared for them were employees of the s...