objective: to compare the effectiveness of group training of stress management with cognitive-behavioral therapy (cbt) in reducing depression, anxiety and stress perceived among hiv-positive men. methods:inthis semi-experimental study, three groups of hiv-positive men (cbt group, stress management group, and control group) including 15 patients in each group were compared regarding depression, ...

OBJECTIVE Previous studies have reported comorbidity of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and allergic diseases. The current study investigated ADHD like behavioral symptoms and parenting stress in pediatric allergic rhinitis. METHODS Eighty-seven children (6-13 years old) with allergic rhinitis and 73 age- and sex-matched children of control group were recruited. Diagnosis ...

Aim: The aim was to validate the Professional Quality of Life Scale. Design: A cross-sectional study. Methods: data were collected using Scale (ProQoL) from February April 2019 among nurses in Slovenia and Croatia. Results: results indicate that original version scale not suitable for this sample. Thus, revised improve model fit. final showed a good fit (TLI = 0.886; CFI 0.915; RMSEA 0.107). It...

Abstract Background The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into focus the mental health of student population. study aimed to analyze psychological response outbreak in terms perceived stress and its related factors among university students south-east Serbia. was conducted during increased incidence Method A total 434 from public Serbia enrolled completed measures socio-demographic data, scale (PSS...

AIMS To assess the construct validity of the incontinence severity index (ISI) by testing its correlation with two health-related quality of life measures, the short forms of the Urogenital Distress Inventory (UDI-6) and the Incontinence Impact Questionnaire (IIQ-7), in women with urodynamic stress incontinence. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cohort of 170 women with the urodynamic stress incontinen...

INTRODUCTION Mindful clinicians are resilient and more likely to provide patient-centered care. We aimed to enhance clinicians' well-being by offering a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course that teaches mindfulness and stress management and then determine whether this impacted their subsequent medical encounters. METHODS In a longitudinal cohort study with 27 clinicians, MBSR was ...

OBJECTIVES To analyze the factorial structure of a new instrument to assess the quality of the family context (Etxadi-Gangoiti Scale) in a sample from the Gipuzkoa cohort of the Environment and Childhood (Infancia y Medio Ambiente [INMA]) study. METHODS Families in a sample of 433 two-year-old children were assessed in a home visit with subsequent analysis of the factorial structure and psych...

OBJECTIVE To estimate whether the mode of anesthesia (and the resultant ability or inability to perform the cough-stress test) used during the tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) procedure affects postoperative continence. METHODS A cohort of 170 women who underwent the TVT procedure without any other concomitant surgery completed the short form of the Urogenital Distress Inventory (UDI-6) to ass...

BACKGROUND Clinicians increasingly require short, efficient methods for assessing distress, both in applied research and clinical settings. Most of the available questionnaires are unsuitable for busy clinical settings. The visual analogue scale (VAS) is widely but empirically used to assess perceived stress. AIMS To provide evidence on two of the psychometric properties of the VAS: its discr...

in this study, the aim was to determine whether adding vitamin d to the standard therapeutic regimen of schizophrenic male patients with inadequate vitamin d status could improve some aspects of the symptom burden or not. this study was an open parallel label randomized clinical trial. eighty patients with chronic stable schizophrenia with residual symptoms and vitamin d deficiency were recruit...