OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence of violence behaviors, psychiatric distress, and life satisfaction among 10- to 18-year-old Iranian adolescents at national and regional disparities. METHODS In this national survey, 5570 students of age 10 to 18 years from urban and rural regions of 27 provinces of Iran were selected through stratified multistage sampling meth...

In psychiatric rehabilitation, the Day Center is the structure of the Department of Mental Health in which therapeutic/rehabilitation programs and re-socialization activities take place in semi-residential setting. The aim of these activities is the recovery of personal and social skills in patients with chronic psychiatric illness1. In this setting, which foresees a long-lasting therapeutic re...

OBJECTIVE Comorbidity between psychiatric disorders is common, but pairwise associations between two disorders may be explained by the presence of other diagnoses that are associated with both disorders or "indirect" comorbidity. MATERIALS AND METHODS Comorbidities of common childhood psychiatric disorders were tested in three community samples of children ages 6-17 (8931 observations of 2965...

The aim of this study was to investigate the association between object relations and emotional processing deficits among a general sample of psychiatric outpatients. The sample consisted of 104 patients consecutively referred to 2 outpatient clinics. Participants completed measures of object relations, emotional processing deficits, and general psychiatric distress. After controlling for the e...

BACKGROUND The present study was designed to evaluate association of psychosocial distress with cardio metabolic risk factors and liver enzymes in Iranian children and adolescents. METHOD This nationwide study was conducted as the third survey of the school-based surveillance system that was conducted among 5593 school students, 10-18 years in Iran. High triglyceride (TG), high fasting blood ...

BACKGROUND The development of an online intervention designed to effectively support midwives in work-related psychological distress will be challenging due to the ethical, practical, and therapeutic issues surrounding its design. Related literature suggests that midwives may require an anonymous, confidential, and therapeutic platform that facilitates amnesty and nonpunitive approaches to reme...

BACKGROUND Job crafting, an employee-initiated job design/redesign, has become important for employees' well-being such as work engagement. This study examined the effectiveness of a newly developed job crafting intervention program on work engagement (as primary outcome), as well as job crafting and psychological distress (as secondary outcomes), using a pretest-posttest study design among Jap...

General practitioners are tasked with determining the nature of patients' emotional distress and providing appropriate care. For patients whose symptoms appear to fall near the 'boundaries' of psychiatric disorder, this can be difficult with important implications for treatment. There is a lack of qualitative research among patients with symptoms severe enough to warrant consultation, but where...

BACKGROUND The goals were to analyse the incidence of mental distress in women with untreated polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) using self-report measures, to characterize PCOS patients at risk for psychiatric disease with regard to sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, and to assess the impact of emotional distress on quality of life. METHODS AND RESULTS Complete metabolic, hormonal,...