This study was designed to identify predictors of parental stress and psychological distress among parents of children with mental retardation in the United Arab Emirates. It examined the relative contributions of child characteristics, parents' sociodemographics, and family environment to parental stress and psychological distress. Participants were parents of 225 mentally retarded children, o...

Psychological distress is common in the terminally ill. It is often underdetected and undertreated and has significant impact on the individual and family. There is a growing consensus on a broader concept of psychological suffering conceptualized as "distress" in the palliative care setting. Psychological screening programs play an important role in improving detection and management of distre...

This study examined the construct validity of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) by examining the relations between NPD and measures of psychologic distress and functional impairment both concurrently and prospectively across 2 samples. In particular, the goal was to address whether NPD typically "meets" criterion C of the DSM-IV definition of Personality Disorder, which requires that the ...

BACKGROUND Mixed anxiety and depressive disorder (MADD) is common yet ill-defined, with little known about outcomes. AIMS To determine MADD outcomes over 1 year. METHOD We recruited 250 adults attending seven London general practices with mild-moderate distress. Three groups were defined using a diagnostic interview: MADD, other ICD-10 psychiatric diagnosis, no psychiatric diagnosis. We ass...

objective: psychiatric distress and work related stress may have a profound effect on an individual's well-being .the aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence rate of mental health problems and their distribution by age, educational level, marital status and years of employment in a chocolate manufacturing company in iran .the general health questionnaire (a widely used screening instru...

BACKGROUND Asylum procedures are known to be protracted, stretching to over ten years in many host countries. International research shows high levels of distress for asylum seekers. Little is known about actual psychiatric morbidity in this population, especially during the first few years postmigration. METHODS The mental health status of two groups of asylum seekers was assessed: Group 1 (...

BACKGROUND In recent decades, increasing attention has been paid to the subjective dimension of cancer, especially to psychosocial screening procedures, major psychiatric disorders but also psychological and psychosocial distress, and finally to met needs of oncologic patients. This study aims first to describe cancer patients in a rural hospital attended by a psycho-oncological consultation-li...

The endogenous opioid system plays a significant role in the modulation of distress in many psychiatric, neurologic, and neurodevelopmental disorders. Many clinical distress symptoms show similarities to the excitatory autonomic withdrawal effects in chronic opioid-dependent animals and humans, as well as to the “quasi-morphine withdrawal syndrome” evoked in naïve rodents shortly after acute sy...

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is a chronic painful disorder conceivably with adverse psychological sequelae that might influence the outcome of the disease and its treatment. This study was designed to detect the presence of psychiatric disorders and associated abnormal psychosocial situations among children and adolescents with JIA and to evaluate their impact on and burden for their car...

OBJECTIVE: To explore the demographic differences on caregiver burden, hopelessness, and psychological distress among caregivers of psychiatric patients. METHODS: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in Pakistan Institute Medical Sciences Islamabad Nishtar Hospital Multan, eight months from 10th April 2019 to 20th November 2019. Purposive sampling technique used include 240 diff...