aim and background: efficacy of mindfulness based cognitive therapy and traditional cognitive behavior therapy in reduction of over generality in autobiographical memory test of patients with major depressive disorder in 2007 is considered in this study. method and materials: this clinical-experimental study was carried out on 90 patients randomly selected from 160 cases refering to tehran univ...

The nationwide prevalence of major depressive disorder in Korea is lower than most countries, despite the high suicide rate. To explain this unexpectedly low prevalence, we examined the functional disability and quality of life in community-dwelling subjects with significant depressive symptoms not diagnosable as depressive disorder. A total of 1,029 subjects, randomly chosen from catchment are...

BACKGROUND Smoking is disproportionately prevalent among people with psychiatric illness. AIMS To investigate smoking as a risk factor for major depressive disorder. METHOD A population-based sample of women was studied using case-control and retrospective cohort study designs. Exposure to smoking was self-reported, and major depressive disorder diagnosed using the Structured Clinical Inter...

BACKGROUND Past episodes of depressive or anxiety disorders and subthreshold symptoms have both been reported to predict the occurrence of depressive or anxiety disorders. It is unclear to what extent the two factors interact or predict these disorders independently. AIMS To examine the extent to which history, subthreshold symptoms and their combination predict the occurrence of depressive (...

OBJECTIVE To investigate quality of life and its association with depression in patients with major depressive disorder. METHOD The study included 74 patients diagnosed with major depressive disorder according to DSM-IV. The Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D) was used to assess the severity of depression; and the, Medical Outcomes Study Short Form-36 (MOS SF-36) and EuroQol 5-D (EQ-5D) ...

The aim of the study was to investigate the association between depressive disorders and risk of tumor recurrence in patients with breast cancer after curative surgery.A nationwide cohort study between January 2001 and December 2007 was conducted. Data were taken from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database. Among 30,659 newly diagnosed breast cancer patients, we identified 1147 ...

BACKGROUND The rate of comorbid depression and medical illness varies from 10 to 40%. Patients with depressive disorder compared to general population more often have cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disorders, diabetes, irritable bowel syndrome, and some types of tumor. Side effects of mental health medications may appear in a form that is very similar to clinical presentation of somatic ill...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to identify depressive symptom profiles that indicated the presence of depressive disorder and present optimal cut-off sub-scores for depressive symptom profiles for detecting depressive disorder in elderly subjects with chronic physical diseases including diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease/asthma, and coronary artery disease, using the Patient Health Questionnai...

BACKGROUND Self-stigma is a maladaptive psychosocial phenomenon that can affect many areas of patients' lives and have a negative impact on their quality of life (QoL). This study explored the association between self-stigma, QoL, demographic data, and the severity of symptoms in patients with depressive disorder. PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients who met the International Classification of Disea...