Our main goal was to examine in a sample of female patients with fibromyalgia the associations among negative affect, positive affect, physical health status, and emotional distress. Moreover, we intended to determine whether emotional distress acts as a mediator between negative affect and physical health status, as well as between positive affect and physical health status. Results have shown...

I am deeply conscious of the great honour that is bestowed by the Indian Psychiatric Society in selecting me to deliver the D. L. N. Mur t i Rao Orat ion. I t is in the nature of giants to take giant strides where lesser mortals proceed in a pedestrian way. So it was that Dr. D. L. N. Murti Rao who strode through the beginning of Indian Psychiatry and the breath and vision of his personality is...

BACKGROUND Secondary distress including emotional distress, vicarious trauma (VT) and secondary traumatic stress (STS) due to exposure to primary trauma victims have been described in helping professionals and in violence researchers. To our knowledge, there are few prevalence studies, and no tailored interventions have been tested to reduce secondary distress in violence researchers. The study...

AIM To examine whether diabetes-specific emotional distress was related to follow-up glycaemic control in adults with Type 1 diabetes mellitus. METHODS Adults with Type 1 diabetes mellitus completed the Diabetes Distress Scale and reported sociodemographic information when attending a clinical consultation at a university endocrinology unit. Blood samples to determine baseline HbA1c were take...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The aim of this prospective longitudinal study was to identify factors relating to emotional distress in the first 6 months after stroke in a sample including patients with aphasia. METHODS One hundred patients who were in hospital at 1 month after stroke were recruited and assessed on measures of communication impairment (Sheffield Screening Test), personal activities ...

INTRODUCTION The objective of the study was to investigate the course of psychological distress in early rheumatoid arthritis patients and to explore the strength of its associations with disease-related variables over time. A further aim focused specifically on the associations between social support and psychological distress. METHODS The study had a longitudinal design, with four annual me...

BACKGROUND Experience of domestic violence has negative mental health consequences for women. The association of cumulative and specific forms of domestic violence, particularly emotional violence and controlling behavior, with common mental disorders and stress has rarely been studied in pregnant women. The aim of this study is to evaluate associations of specific and multiple forms of lifetim...

Anxiety sensitivity (AS), has been conceptualized as a hierarchical construct, comprising three lowerorder dimensions. Recent findings suggest that AS may be better conceptualized as a general dimension and unrelated physical, cognitive, and social concerns dimensions (a bifactor model). The current study was designed to examine whether a bifactor model best represented AS in a sample of 878 co...

BACKGROUND Recognition of maternal emotional distress during pregnancy and the identification of risk factors for this distress are of considerable clinical- and public health importance. The mental health of the mother is important both for herself, and for the physical and psychological health of her children and the welfare of the family. The first aim of the present study was to identify ri...

OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to examine the independent association of emotional distress with unhealthy sleep duration (defined as <7 or >8 hours). METHODS Data from the 2009 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), a cross-sectional household survey, were analyzed to investigate the associations of emotional distress with unhealthy sleep durations, adjusting for sociodemographic...