Background: Vitiligo is a common pigmentary disorder affecting mental health, and alexithymia is a trait associated with multiple cutaneous disorders. This study was conducted to compare vitiligo patients and controls as concerns alexithymia. Methods: Fifty-two patients with vitiligo and 61 non-vitiligo individuals were recruited. They completed Toronto alexithymia score-20 questionnaire. Indep...

High comorbidity between psychological disorders causes attention to the mechanisms responsible for this comorbidity and common cognitive factors involved in these disorders. These are known as transdiagniostic factors. Similarity evidence and high comorbidity between generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) introduce them as neighboring disorders. The purpose ...

background substance use in patients with psychiatric disorder is an every-day seen. detection of this comorbidity can significantly affect the treatment of these disorders, as well as substance use. objectives this study has been conducted to determine the prevalence and pattern of substance use in hospitalized psychiatric patients. patients and methods in this cross-sectional study, 210 hospi...

conclusions with increasing the number of comorbid conditions, the proportion of patients with high adherence decreases. in our opinion, this finding is a useful clinical note for healthcare providers when managing patients with hypertension who have other medical problems at the same time. patients and methods two hundred and eighty consecutive hypertensive patients were interviewed in 4 citie...

objective: patients with bipolar mood disorder constitute a relatively large number of individuals hospitalized in psychiatric hospitals. this disorder is highly co-morbid with other psychiatric disorders and may effect their clinical course. the goal of this study was to determine the co-occurrence rate of anxiety disorders and substance abuse with bipolar mood disorders and their impact on cl...

exposure to traumatic events is common in children and adolescent. post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) is an emotional reaction to traumatic events, which is increasingly recognized to be a prevalent and disabling disorder. the aim of this study is to determine the distribution of normative life events which predicts ptsd in youth who referred to an outpatient clinic in rasht, iran. this stud...

BACKGROUND Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is among the most stigmatized health conditions and is frequently comorbid with mood, anxiety, and drug use disorders. Theoretical frameworks have conceptualized stigma-related stress as a predictor of psychiatric disorders. We described profiles of psychiatric comorbidity among people with AUD and compared levels of perceived alcohol stigma across profiles...

CONTEXT Patients with cancer often have other medical ailments, referred to as comorbidity. Comorbidity may impact treatment decision-making, prognosis, and quality of care assessment. OBJECTIVE To assess whether comorbidity information can provide important prognostic information in a hospital-based cancer registry. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS An observational prospective cohort stud...