The increased scope and complexity of tasks that people perform as part of their routine work has led to growing interest in the development of intelligent personal assistive agents that can aid a human in managing and performing tasks. As part of their operation, such agents should be able to anticipate user needs, opportunities, and problems, and then act on their own initiative to address th...

OBJECTIVE Medical training is considered a significant stress factor. We sought to assess the prevalence and intensity of anxiety and depressive symptoms in medical students and compare samples of first-year and sixth-year students. METHOD This was a cross-sectional study of first- and sixth-year medical students who attended classes regularly. The study instruments were a sociodemographic qu...

OBJECTIVES Familial caregivers of demented patients suffer from high levels of burden of care, but the literature is sparse regarding the prevalence and predictors of burnout in this group. Burnout is composed of three dimensions: emotional exhaustion (EE), depersonalization (DP) and reduced personal accomplishment (RPA). We aimed to investigate the associations between burnout dimensions and t...

CONTEXT Depression in cancer survivors affects the rest of their lives in many ways. OBJECTIVES To estimate the prevalence of depression and identify associated factors in disease-free stomach cancer survivors. METHODS We enrolled 391 stomach cancer survivors who had been disease-free for at least one year after surgery from the cancer registries of two hospitals in Korea. Stomach cancer su...

BDI-II: Beck Depression Inventory–II; EORTC-QLQ-C30: European Organisation for Research and Treatment of CancerQuality of Life Questionnaire-C30; GHQ-12: 12 items General Health Questionnaire; PHR: Pancreatic Head Resection; PNETs: Pancreatic Neuro Endocrine Tumors; PROs: Patient-Reported Outcomes; QLQ PAN26: Quality of Life Questionnaire-PAN26; QoL: Quality of Life; SF-12: Medical Outcome Stud...

AIM The aim of this study is to examine the unique and interactive role of worry and rumination in anxiety and depression symptoms. METHOD A total of 328 university students responded to questionnaires assessing worry (Penn State Worry Questionnaire), rumination (Ruminative Response Styles Questionnaire-Short Form), anxiety (Beck Anxiety Inventory and Trait Anxiety Inventory), and depression ...

The aim of this study was to investigate the psychometric properties of Internet administered questionnaires used in panic research. Included were 494 people who had registered for an Internet-based treatment program for panic disorder (PD). Participants were randomly assigned to fill in the questionnaires either on the Internet or the paper-and-pencil versions, and then to fill in the same que...

INTRODUCTION Depression during or shortly after hospitalization elevated two to three times the risk of mortality or nonfatal cardiac events, significantly increasing the morbidity and mortality of these patients. OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of revascularization on symptoms of depression in patients with coronary artery disease. METHODS A prospective cohort study of 57 patients of both s...

BACKGROUND Pregnant women experience a set of biological and psychological disturbances. The aim of this study was to assess the appearance of depressive symptoms and suicidal thoughts in pregnant women during the third trimester of pregnancy. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A total of 110 pregnant women were included in the study. All of them filled out an anonymous questionnaire about sociodemographic...

Objectives: Depression and anxiety are commonly seen among epileptic patients. These comorbidities have a negative effect on achievement of effective treatment and improvement in the quality of life of epileptic patients. We aimed to determine the frequency of anxiety and depression in epilepsy and in subgroups of epileptic patients and their correlation with disease duration and seizure freque...