Knowledge about potential protective factors against mental health problems is highly needed. Regular physical activity (PA) in an outdoor environment, like mountain exercising, might reduce psychological distress. Therefore, the aims of the present study were to assess the prevalence of mental health problems in mountain exercisers and to detect factors associated with psychological distress. ...

The types of psychological problem noted in this article appear to have two common qualities?the likelihood of being ignored, and an urgent need of consideration. Their likelihood of being ignored probably arises from two main causes?long-standing blindness to their very existence, or a hurried and even half-conscious forgetting of them whenever they stir the minds of administrators in, and aut...

patients afflicted with chronic pain have both physical and psychological problems. this research investigated the impact of the psychological factors in the treatment results of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (tens) in the patients afflicted with chronic diseases. the subjects were 37 individuals (20 males and 17 females) with the mean age of 46 who had referred to two centers of ...