INTRODUCTION Working at unusual hours has been found to be related to sleep problems, psychiatric symptoms, and low quality of life. This study aimed to investigate the effect of sleep quality on psychiatric symptoms and the quality of life in newspaper couriers who permanently wake up at early morning hours. METHODS Thirty-five newspaper couriers who worked for a media company in Ankara and ...

BACKGROUND Although there are several studies to investigate the smoking behaviors among rural-to-urban Chinese migrants, no study has focused individually on this population in Shanghai. This study was performed to estimate the prevalence and identify the determinants of tobacco smoking among rural-to-urban migrants in Shanghai. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, multi-stage quota sampli...

OBJECTIVE To assess self-perceived mental health in women treated with in vitro fertilisation (IVF) 20-23 years previously, while comparing them to a reference group, and to determine any differences in mental health between those who had given birth, those who had adopted a child, those who had given birth and adopted a child and those who remained childless. DESIGN A cross-sectional study. ...

OBJECTIVE Weight preoccupations have been frequently reported in normal-weight subjects. Subthreshold anorexia nervosa (s-AN, all DSM IV TR criteria except amenorrhea or underweight) is a form of eating disorder not otherwise specified that has received scarce scientific attention. Under a case-control design we compared the general characteristics, body composition, and psychopathological feat...

Background and Objective: The presence of pain in cancer patients is a prevalent concomitant symptom, exerting significant impacts on their physical, psychological, social functioning. However, the psychological aspects are often overlooked. This study aims to explore factors influencing provision support for experiencing cancer-related while proposing intervention measures enhance treatment co...

for the purpose of investigating the effects of motivational, cognitive, intellectural and personality factors on the learning abiltiy and educational function of students, the scl-90-r and educational status questionnaire were administered to 1102 students of science, engineering, fine arts, and letters and humanition faculties of tehran university.findings indicated a significant difference b...

Objective: Isotretinoin is highly preferred in the treatment of severe and resistant acne, but there are still disagreements about whether it has psychogenic side effects. In this study; we aim to investigate changes psychological symptoms before after a group patients treated with isotretinoin. Material Methods: A total 110 who had moderate or decided start isotretinoin treatment, were include...