THiS is a title which could cover an enormous range of articles. It is difficult to know where to begin, any response is partial and it may be accounted some measure of success if more is suggested than included. Details proliferate, concepts are confused. This paper will deal with some general principles. Naturally the first step was to look for references to published work and to consult some...

background: despite therapeutic effect of hemodialysis in end stage renal disease (esrd) patients, these patients encounter different physical and psychological tensional factors. physical exercises have beneficial physical and psychological effects on patients under hemodialysis as one of the accessory therapeutic methods. as few studies have been done about the effects of physical exercise on...

conclusions: this study showed that a considerable portion of patients with ra may have mental problems. the probability of these problems increased with more severe and more prolonged disease. results: ghq28 screening test showed that psychological problems were seen in 49% of studied patients. there were significant difference between duration of disease and das-28 score between the two group...

objective: the aim of the present study was to investigate the epidemiology of psychological problems in adolescents in five provinces of tehran, khorasan razavi, isfahan, east azerbaijan and fars in iran. methods: in the present cross-sectional and descriptive – analytical study, 5171 adolescents aged 12 to 17 years were selected through multistage cluster sampling method from tehran, isfahan,...

In this study, we compared several aspects of the emotional functioning of schoolchildren reporting very few somatic complaints (n=59), schoolchildren reporting many somatic complaints (n=61), and a clinical group of children with functional abdominal complaints who visited the outpatient clinical of the VU University Medical Centre in Amsterdam (n=33). The children had an average age of 10.6 y...

Intensive care units are now well established in modem hospital practice and there can be few clinicians in any specialty who have not had some of their patients treated in such units. Intensive care units form a collection of the most ill in hospital. In our own unit the average mortality based on the last 1700 patients admitted was 13-5%, although there was a wide variation depending on the t...