OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of current depression; examine the relationship between current depression and immigration, health status, health care access, and health behaviors; and assess differences by California-Mexico border region (Imperial and San Diego Counties) among women in California. METHODS Using a cross-sectional, representative sample of adult women from the California ...

purpose: this study was conducted to assess cognitive impairments, depression, anxiety and quality of life among patients with brain tumor and healthy adults, comparatively. methods: a cross-sectional study was administrated on 84 brain tumor patients and 84 healthy adults measured by the mini mental state examination, beck, hamilton and sf36 questionnaires before and after 10 days of surgery. ...

To test the hypothesized anger-mediated relation between maternal depression and escalation of physical discipline, 122 economically disadvantaged mothers were assessed for current and lifetime diagnoses of depression using the Current Depressive Episode, Past Depression, and Dysthymia sections of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID) and a measure of current depressive symptoms, ...

OBJECTIVE To identify the similarities and differences of risk factors and correlates of different groups of people fulfilling criteria for specified diagnostic groups according to current somatoform disorder (SDs) criteria, presence of anxiety and/or depression, and self-reported musculoskeletal disorders. METHODS Participants of the Oslo-Lofoten general population cross-sectional study in 2...

objectives: the aim of the current study was to determine the depression status of the elderly and it's related factors. methods & materials: this was a cross sectional study. sample unit was based on the elderly of isfahan city in 2007. 248 elderly aged 60 and older (125 men and 123 women) were selected randomly according to clusters related to the families that are under coverage of isfa...

This study examined the effects of anxiety and depression on pain in women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA; n=82) or osteoarthritis (OA; n=88). Anxiety and depression symptoms were assessed at the beginning of the study. Arthritis pain, interpersonal stress, negative affect, and positive affect were assessed weekly for 11 consecutive weeks. Multilevel analyses were conducted to investigate direct...

INTRODUCTION Our purpose was to determine the prevalence and correlates of self-reported symptoms of depression and physician-diagnosed depression and anxiety in Florida adults by using the 2006 Florida Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). METHODS The BRFSS is an ongoing, state-based telephone health survey of noninstitutionalized adults that uses random-digit dialing. In 2006,...