background: depression and anxiety had negative effects on the quality of life of cancer patients, thus hospital anxiety and depression scale (hads) is a useful instrument for screening these problems. this research was performed to assess the prevalence of their anxiety and depression. methods: from 2012-2013, one hundred fifty patients with recent diagnosis of different cancers in babol, iran...

objective: the objective of this study was to determine the ability of non-psychiatric (medical and surgical residents) residents on inpatient units to recognize patients with clinically significant depression and anxiety among a cohort admitted to the dr. shariati hospital in tehran. method: patients within 72 hours of admission underwent screening with the hospital anxiety and depression scal...

objective : the present study is investigating the attribution style in patients with the anxiety and depression comorbidity. method: subjects are 26 patients with major depression, 25 patients with generalized anxiety disorder, 17 patients with comorbidity of anxiety and depression, and 30 normal individuals. the aparatus used in the study for data collecting were beck depression inventory, be...

introduction : in iran along with other countries, as transplant technology progresses and advances, the number of patients undergoing transplantation is rising steadily. in order to make stem-cell transplantation (sct) safer and more effective, psychological distress of patients must be taken in to account. patients are facing challenges pre- and post-transplantation. this study attempts to me...

background: studies suggest a high prevalence of anxiety and depression in breast cancer patients compared with other types of cancer. note that depression and anxiety influence other important parameters such as the patient's psychological status, quality of life, patients´ immune system, efficiency of treatment, duration of hospitalization and survival, the researchers design and implement st...

anxiety and depression are very common in population and occur in a wide range of clinical states and is very common in epileptic patients. many recent epidemiological studies have found a high prevalence of depression and anxiety in epileptic patients. these studies found that epileptic patients suffered from depression and anxiety than those without epilepsy. the prevalence of depression or a...

background: the relationship of inflammatory cytokines with anxiety and depression has been reported, but their role in diabetic patients has not been fully elucidated. objective: we examined whether an association between prevalence of anxiety and depression in omani type-2 diabetic patients (n=30) and the levels of inflammatory markers such as il-1β, tnf-α, ifn-γ and c-reactive protein (crp) ...

in this research anxiety and depression and their association with 32 different factors in students of hamedan university of medical sciences were measured. levels of anxiety and depression were assessed by state-trait anxiety inventory (from 2, trait) and beck depression inventory. a questionnaire made of demographic data, educational and noneducational activities, the presence of medical or p...

background:  the  current study examined race and ethnic differences in the separate and combined (additive) effects of anxiety, depression and problem drinking on the baseline and trajectory of subjective health among adult men in the united states. methods:  this longitudinal study used data from the fragile families and child well-being study. we included 4655 men, composed of 2407 blacks, 1...

conclusions depression and anxiety are prevalent in methamphetamine users. short-term abstinence improves depression and quality of life but does not improve anxiety in methamphetamine abusers. during follow up of these patients, addressing depression and anxiety is important to achieve better results. results the mean depression score after abstinence decreased significantly (p < 0.001). both ...