PURPOSE The aim of the study was to assess depressive symptoms, and to establish their influence on the subjective and objective quality of life (QOL) in schizophrenia patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS Seventy four subjects: 46 male and 28 female, aged 24.7 +/- 6.7 years, were enrolled for the study. World Health Organization of Life Instrument-Bref (WHO-QOL-BREF), Social Functioning Scale (SFS)...

This paper presents some of the design considerations of BREF, a large read-speech corpus for French. BREF was designed to provide continuous speech data for the development of dictation machines, for the evaluation of continuous speech recognition systems (both speaker-dependent and speakerindependent), and for the study of phonological variations. The texts to be read were selected from 5 mil...

Androgenetic alopecia (AGA) affects the quality of life (QoL) and has a negative psychological impact on patients. We sought to investigate frequency anxiety depression in AGA patients explore their relationship with patients’ QoL. This cross-sectional survey enrolled 192 participants AGA. Hairdex, World Health Organization Quality Brief Version (WHOQOL-BREF), dermatology index (DLQI) instrumen...