Abstract Introduction: Working in healthcare jobs and the health sector, where one has to face human communication and health-related issues every day, can cause a lot of stress. Nurses are important members of the healthcare system of a country; they play a crucial role in improving the quality of healthcare. Burnout as the main characteristic of job stress refers to a delayed reaction ...

objective: the objective of this study was analyzing the effect of meta-cognition elements on depression, trait and state anxiety symptoms.  methods: in this study, the sample consisted of 224 students of university of social welfare and rehabilitation sciences that answered three questionnaires including metacognitive questionnaire (mcq-30), beck depression inventory (bdi-ii) and spielberger s...

On the basis of theory and previous research, it was hypothesized that predisaster child trait anxiety would predict disaster-related posttraumatic stress symptoms and generalized anxiety disorder symptoms, even after controlling for the number of hurricane exposure events. Results support this hypothesis and further indicate that predisaster negative affect predicted disaster-related posttraum...

PURPOSE To examine associations between health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and anxiety symptoms across anxiety domains (obsessions/compulsions, social anxiety, panic disorder, agoraphobia, separation anxiety, physical injury fears, generalised anxiety, and posttraumatic stress) in a general adolescent population. Expanded knowledge about these associations can provide valuable information f...

aim and background: alexithymia or emotional inhibition is an important risk factor for psychosomatic disorders such as gastrointestinal disorders. the aim of this study was to evaluate the correlation between the dimensions of alexithymia with depression and anxiety in patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders (fgid). methods and materials: in a descriptive-correlation study, 129 pat...

The aim of this study was assessing the effectiveness of child-centered play therapy (CCPT) on reducing internalizing symptoms in children and reduced parental stress in mothers. The method of this study was Quasi-experimental research study using a pretest-post-test along with the control group. A group of 20 children with 7 and 8 age in 2012-2013 school year (n=10 experimental and n=10 contro...

BACKGROUND The classification of anxiety and depressive disorders has long been debated and has important clinical implications. The present study combined a genetically sensitive design and multiple time points to investigate cognitive content specificity in anxiety and depressive disorder symptoms across anxiety sensitivity dimensions, a cognitive distortion implicated in both disorders. ME...

In anxiety research, relative few psychophysiological studies have been conducted. In this chapter, we presented previous studies that used different psychophsiological markers that can be further utilized in future research. However, there are a few things to be considered when psychophysiological markers are used in anxiety studies, first of which may be genetic factors. Genetic factors influ...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to examine co-occurrence of ADHD and anxiety in preschool children. METHOD The data collection was part of the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa) at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. After a screening for ADHD symptoms at 36 months, participants were clinically assessed at age 36 to 44 months. Psychiatric symptoms of ADHD and anxie...