background: depression is one of the mental disorders which have become a public health problem throughout of the world. the objective of this study was to investigate depression and to determine its correlated factors among students at shiraz university of medical sciences (sums). methods: 358 students of sums participated in this crosssectional study in 2012. the participants were selected by...

depression in university students can be considered as an indicator of mental health. therefore, it is highly important to be concerned about their mental health. the present research was conducted for the purpose of investigating the depression level in paramedical students and the contributing factors. this research is a cross-sectional study. the examined population included the students of ...

COPD is a chronic multisystem disorder with various co morbidities. Smoking is a major risk factor. It’s etiology and multisystem effects may contribute to depression and anxiety. Interplay of various factors along with gender, socioeconomic, educational and marital status also do contribute to depression and anxiety in COPD. Unfortunately, Evaluation of anxiety and depression are often neglect...

Abstract Background Patients with mild to moderate depressive symptoms can have limited access regular treatment; ensure appropriate care, low-threshold treatment is needed. Effective online interventions could increase the supply of treatment. Further research needed evaluate effectiveness interventions. This study aims online-based self-help programme “Selfapy” on a sample subjects and compar...

the aim of present research was to investigate psychometric properties (reliability ,validity and factor analysis) of children depression inventory (kovacs,1981) in boy and girl students of junior high schools in ahvaz. 399 boy and girl students were randomly selected by multi-stage sampling. the results of factor analysis extracted six factors. among those, the greatest proportion of variance ...

This study was conducted to find out the association of diabetes mellitus with cognitive functioning and depressive features. We included 50 diabetic and 30 control subjects who were screened on the basis of various inclusion and exclusion criteria. Then, a history of variables under study was taken and respective laboratory investigations were noted. First, the Becks Depression Inventory (BDI)...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to compare adaptations in functional and quality of life measures following endurance- and resistance-exercise training in people with multiple sclerosis. DESIGN Cross-over design with an eight-week washout period. SETTING Community health centre. SUBJECTS Sixteen individuals with multiple sclerosis. INTERVENTION Subjects completed both an eight-w...

Methods We included consecutive cSLE followed at the pediatric rheumatology unit of the State University of Campinas. Neurological manifestations were analyzed according to the ACR classification criteria. Cognitive evaluation was performed in all participants using Wechsler Intelligence Scale for children (WISC-III) and Wechsler Intelligence Scale for adults (WAIS), according to age and valida...

Joining the debate on the structure of depression, S. R. H. Bearh and N. Amir (2003) analyzed college students' responses to 6 Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) items with predominantly somatic content and concluded that they identified a small latent taxon corresponding to involuntary defeat syndrome. An exact replication of these analyses yielded virtually identical taxometric results, but para...