Background and aims: Depression is the most common psychiatric disorder, and students are morepredisposed to depression than other populations. This meta-analysis was conducted to estimate themean depression score in Iranian students based on DASS-21.Methods: The search was carried out using keywords Depression, Student, DASS-21 and Iran indomestic databases, including S...

BACKGROUND A series of recent papers have reported normative data from the general adult population for commonly used self-report mood scales. AIMS To bring together and supplement these data in order to provide a convenient means of obtaining percentile norms for the mood scales. METHOD A computer program was developed that provides point and interval estimates of the percentile rank corre...

This article describes the efficacy of a guided imagery intervention for decreasing depression, anxiety, and stress and increasing comfort in psychiatric inpatients with depressive disorders. A quasi-experimental design sampled 60 short-term hospitalized depressive patients selected consecutively. The experimental group listened to a guided imagery compact disk once a day for 10 days. The Psych...

Results Participants were representative of the SICU staff with 69% nurses, 88% females, age average of 44, and 11.8 (±10.1, SD) average years working in the SICU. Participant biological indices of stress, measured by the level of salivary a-amylase, was significantly reduced in the intervention group (t=2.562, p=0.026) only. Behaviorally, they rated their experience of stress using the Depress...

This study explored several, latent factor models of the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale?21 (DASS?21) using both a sample clinically depressed patients Facebook from Serbia. The DASS?21, Beck Inventory?II, State Trait Inventory?Trait were administered to individuals (N = 296; Mage 52.21, SDage 11.56). A 376; =29.12, SD 8.96) completed DASS?21 only. bifactor model with one general distress (...

Background: Mental health of cricket players has been a topic debate for considerable time across the globe. Objectives: The purpose this study was to investigate prevalence mental symptoms among semi-professional male experienced during COVID-19, as well relationship between age and Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale (DASS-21) sub-scale. Methods: were assessed (n = 90) using following instrumen...