infertility, usually defined as the failure of a couple to conceive after 12 months of regular unprotected intercourse. infertility sometimes is occurred with psychoemotional distress such as anxiety, interpersonal problems, disappointment, sadness, anger and depression. during the time infertile couples attempt to get pregnant, women with fertility problems experience more negative emotional f...

Introduction The new coronavirus had a huge impact on individuals from social, economical and psychological point of view. In march 2020 World Health Organization declared the diseases 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic highlighted its psychoemotional implications. Objectives aim this study was to investigate distress during COVID-19 in patients with cutaneous manifestations SARS-CoV-2 infection. Methods...

Depression, once considered a major psychological disorder is now evolving into a more biologically-oriented pathophysiologic description [1,2]. While depression can, no doubt, be provoked by psychoemotional factors (personal, relational and/or context-dependent), the identification of the underling biologically-mediated nervous and systemic changes is important to properly manage it [3]. Depre...

Chemotherapy is one of most significant therapeutic approaches to cancer. Immune system functional state is considered a major prognostic and predictive impact on the success of chemotherapy and it has an important role on patients' psychoemotional state and quality of life. In Chinese medicine, chemotherapy is understood as "toxic cold" that may induce a progressive hypofunctional state of imm...

Stroke still causes high levels of human inability and suffering, and it is one of the main causes of death in developed countries, including Portugal. OBJECTIVE analyze the strategies of hospital discharge planning for these patients, increasing the knowledge related to hospitalhome transition, discharge planning processes and the main impact on the quality of life and functionality. METHO...

BACKGROUNDS Solid evidence has demonstrated that psychoemotional stress induced alteration of hair cycle through neuropeptide substance P (SP) mediated immune response, the role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in brain-skin-axis regulation system remains unknown. OBJECTIVES The present study aims to investigate possible mechanisms of ROS in regulation of SP-mast cell signal pathway in chroni...

Research investigating the psychological difficulties experienced by people with Parkinson's disease (PD) is dominated by individualistic neurobiological and psychological perspectives. Therefore, this opinion paper draws on a reformulation of the social model of disability, Thomas' (1999) and (2007) social relational approach to disablism, to offer an alternative way of conceptualising psychol...

Radiation therapy is a mandatory treatment tactic in almost 70 % of cancer patients, including those head and neck, accounting for about 15−20 %. The radiotherapy prescribing causes certain complications so its need increases the level anxiety stress, forms pessimistic perception prospects anticancer treatment. An additional stressor also myths radiation therapy, which can provoke refusal There...

Actuality. Today chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an urgent medical and social problem leading to the affection not only respiratory system but also other body systems and having a great influence on psychoemotional state of patients and the course of the disease. The most common comorbidities in COPD are cardio-vascular diseases, dysfunction of skeletal muscles, osteoporosis, me...

In an evolutionary model, health and disease are regarded as successful and respectively failed adaptation to the demands of the environment. The social factors are critical for a successful adaptation, while emotions are means of both signaling the organism's state and of adapting the physiological responses to environmental challenges. Hence the importance of a biopsychosocial model of health...