AIM This paper is a report of a study of fallers' mental status as one of the patient-related intrinsic risk factors for falls. BACKGROUND Whether confusion is one of the most important risk factors associated with risk of falling in hospital settings is unclear. Literature reviews have not identified consistent evidence for effective preventive interventions for patients with mental status d...

Background: Depression is common psychiatric disorder among general outpatients. Prevalence of depression and associated factors among this population has been studied in some parts of Nigeria. However, few if any were conducted in the most populous geopolitical zone of Nigeria. Materials & Method: This study determines the prevalence of depression and associated factors among general outpatien...

background: promoting mental health and preventing mental disorders are of the main concerns for every country. achieving these goals requires effective indexes for evaluating mental health. therefore, to develop mental health enhancement programs in iran, there is a need to measure the state of mental health in iran. objectives: this study aimed to select a set of mental health indicators that...

review of mental health and physical health in night working nurses in golestan university of medical sciences in 2008-2009 hojjati h , tahery n , sharifniyai sh received: 14 april, 2010 accepted: 27 july, 2010 abstract background & aims: night shift schedules may have negative physical, mental, and social effects on nurses and their personal life and reduces the quality of the work. this study...

Although many researchers have investigated emotional and behavioral difficulties in individuals with Williams syndrome, few have used standardized diagnostic assessments. We examined mental health problems in 92 adults with Williams syndrome using the Psychiatric Assessment Schedule for Adults with Developmental Disabilities-PAS-ADD (Moss, Goldberg, et al., 1996). Factors potentially associate...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the association between physical activity level and mental health status among elderly people. METHODS This was a population-based survey with a probabilistic sample of 875 elderly people from a city of Southern Brazil, in 2002. The International Physical Activity Questionnaire and the Brazil Old Age Schedule questionnaire were applied. The mental health problems evaluat...

How do people think about social status? We investigated the nature of social status and number representations using a semantic distance latency test. In Study 1, 21 college students compared words connoting different social status as well as numbers, which served as a control task. Participants were faster at comparing occupations and numbers that were semantically farther apart relative to t...