BACKGROUND Adjustment disorder is one of the most common mental health diagnoses. Still it receives relatively little attention from researchers trying to establish best interventions to treat it. With high prevalence of stressful life events, which might be leading to adjustment disorder, and limited resources of mental health service providers, online interventions could be a very practical w...

  Background :Co-morbid psychiatric disorders affect prognosis, psychosocial adjustment and post-surgery satisfaction in patients with gender identity disorder. In this paper, we assessed the frequency of personality disorders in Iranian GID patients.   Methods : Seventy- three patients requesting sex reassignment surgery (SRS) were recruited for this cross- sectional study. Of the participan...

Background: According to metacognitive theory, Cognitive Attentional Syndrome (CAS) is a transdiagnostic factor and main mechanism of psychopathology maintenance. The goal this study examine whether CAS predicted stress- trauma-related symptomatology in the first months COVID-19 pandemic three later. Methods: Initially, 1792 participants were recruited online via social media; data collected at...

this article reports the results of an epidemiology of mental disorders among adults above 15 years in urben areas of kashan city. data were gathered using general health questionnaire (28- items version) and clinical interview based on dsm-iv. results showed the total prevalence of mental disorders, were about 23.75%. more prevalent were mood disorder, (%11.75). anxiety disorder, (%11.15) and ...

the high comorbidity of medical and psychiatric diagnoses in the general hospital population requires collaboration between various medical fields to provide comprehensive health care. this study aims to find the rate of psychiatric consultations, their timing and overall diagnostic trend in comparison to previous studies. tehran university of medical sciences has got an active psychiatric cons...

BACKGROUND Social support and life events moderate the expression of depression though studies have shown contradictory results. The objective was to study the stressful life events and perceived social support in patients with adjustment disorder, first-episode depression, and recurrent depressive disorder (RDD). SUBJECTS AND METHODS One hundred and forty-six patients aged 18-60 years with a...

AIMS To assess the validity of reaction to severe stress and adjustment disorder diagnoses registered in the Danish Psychiatric Central Research Register (DPCRR), to examine the documentation of stressful and traumatic events in the medical records, and to investigate the occurrence of stress diagnoses among persons not registered in the DPCRR. METHODS Among 101,633 patients diagnosed with In...