OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between preschool depression severity, observed behavior, and parental emotional support in a population of 3.0- to 5.6-year-olds and their mothers. METHOD One hundred fifty preschoolers who underwent a comprehensive mental health assessment during which DSM-IV diagnoses were derived were included in this analysis. Child and parent behaviors during ch...

Anxiety is one of the prevalent mental health disorders. Stressors by changes in physiology can increase risk of physical diseases. High levels of cortisol have many negative effects on health. This study aimed to determine Anxiety symptoms prevalence and its relationships with plasma cortisol level. This study was a descriptive- analytical cross-sectional that was conducted on 100 nursing stud...

background during the recent decades, there have been two major leaps in treatment of depression using the medication to pacify and relieve depression signs and behavior cognitive therapy. the available evidences emphasize the treatment success with some group training methods including stress management, cognitive group therapy, and eye movement desensitization in reducing depression. objectiv...

background and objective: obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (osas) is a prevalent disease in adults. limited evidence regarding the effect of severity of sleep apnea and depression on heart rate variability (hrv) indices exists. hence, we decided to focus on the association between hrv and severity of osas based on depression score. materials and methods: a total of 193 patients with confirmed o...

the aim of this study was to determine the sleep quality and level of depression among iranian migraineurs. among 380 cases that were selected by simple random selection from those who attended outpatient neurology clinic of imam khomeini hospital, 332 patients participated in this cross-sectional study. after an inclusive examination by a neurologist, the participants were asked to fill valid ...

Depression is common and may occur at any stage in the long history of Parkinson’s disease, markedly affecting a patient’s threshold to discomfort, but it is particularly difficult to assess before clear clinical features are evident. The rate of depression in patients with Parkinson’s disease vary, partly because of differences in the definition of depression, difficulties in distinguishing be...

Depression is common and may occur at any stage in the long history of Parkinson’s disease, markedly affecting a patient’s threshold to discomfort, but it is particularly difficult to assess before clear clinical features are evident. The rate of depression in patients with Parkinson’s disease vary, partly because of differences in the definition of depression, difficulties in distinguishing be...

BACKGROUND Risk for depression and other disorders is known to be high among children of depressed mothers, but little is known about the parameters of severity, chronicity, and timing of depression and its effects on children. The study addresses these issues, disaggregating their overlapping effects. METHODS A sample of 816 women and their 15-year-old children in an Australian community wer...