Objective: Firstly to get an impression of mental health among individuals with rheumatic diseases and to investigate factors associated with its three facets: emotional, social and psychological well-being. Secondly to explore how much variance these factors can explain in mental health. We are interested in establishing whether mental or physical factors play the bigger role. Methods: This st...

BACKGROUND GPs are an accessible health care provider for most patients with mental disorders and are gatekeepers to specialist care. The extent to which patients consider their primary care team as relevant to their mental health problems needs to be explored. OBJECTIVES To explore reasons why patients choose not to disclose psychological problems to GPs, and to discuss the implications for ...

BACKGROUND Despite widespread acceptance of the 'biopsychosocial model', the aetiology of mental health problems has provoked debate amongst researchers and practitioners for decades. The role of psychological factors in the development of mental health problems remains particularly contentious, and to date there has not been a large enough dataset to conduct the necessary multivariate analysis...

Psychological problems play a critical role in development of cardiovascular disease. Several mechanisms were suggested to explain the association and mechanism of this effect, recently. Knowledge of the mechanisms mediating the association between psychological status and heart disease could help in developing treatments. The effects of mind and mood on the cardiovascular system can be due to ...

BACKGROUND To investigate how social support relates to mental health problems for Belgian late adolescents and young adults 15-25 years of age. Additionally, we examine changes in mental health problems between 2008 and 2013 and investigate gender differences. METHODS Multivariate analysis of variance was used to investigate (1) psychological distress, (2) anxiety and (3) depression among 71...