pemphigus is a rare autoimmune blistering disease with different phenotypes. the evaluation of therapeutic interventions requires a reliable, valid and feasible to use measurement. however, there is no gold standard to measure the disease activity in clinical trials. in this study we aimed to introduce the pemphigus vulgaris activity score (pvas) measurement and to assess the convergent validit...

An understanding of etiological and maintaining factors of mental disorders is essential for the treatment of mental disorders, as well as mental health promotion and protection. The present study examines predictors of the incidence, remission and relapse of a wide range of Axis I mental disorders, using data from the Dresden Predictor Study. A sample of 1394 young German women completed quest...

introduction: the basic objective of this study is to investigate the effects of alpha and theta brain waves amplitude increase in occipital area on reducing the severity of symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder and to increase the global functioning level in patients with gad. methods: this study is a quasi-experimental study with pre-test and post-test with two groups. for this purpose, 28...

This study examined whether working memory (WM), inattentive symptoms, and/or hyperactive/impulsive symptoms significantly contributed to academic, behavioral, and global functioning in 8-year-old children. One-hundred-sixty 8-year-old children (75.6% male), who were originally recruited as preschoolers, completed subtests from the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fourth Edition, Integr...

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Background and Aims: This research is carried out with the aim of comparing anxiety, depression and global assessment of functioning between two groups of bipolar patients at mixed and manic episodes. Methods: Using an analytical cross-sectional approach, a sample of 94 patients with mean age of 32 years old (Standard Deviation: 11.3), who had been categorically diagnosed with bipolar disorder ...

OBJECTIVE To study the co-occurrence of psychiatric disorders (PD) and communication disorders (CD) and their relationship with global functioning in maltreated children and adolescents. METHODS The sample comprised 143 maltreated children and adolescents (55.8% male). All underwent clinical communication and psychiatric evaluations, as well as global functioning assessment using the Children...

BACKGROUND There is limited data on the recovery of factors associated with decisional capacity in patients with psychosis. AIMS To study the relationship between changes in mental capacity, symptoms and global functioning using structured measures during treatment for psychosis. METHOD Fifty-six patients with psychosis were assessed for capacity to consent to treatment on admission and at ...