The main object of this study is to evaluate the psychological status chronic pain patients (CPP) and describe characteristics frequency disorders CPP. Two hundred sixty-three with complaints longer than 1 year fifty healthy volunteers were included in study. Patients cancer not included. Turkish version Symptom Checklist-90 Revised (SCL- 90-R) was used for assessment participants. CPP divided ...

OBJECTIVE Our objective was to evaluate the psychopathological profile of obese women with binge eating disorder (BED) using the Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90). METHODS Two hundred twelve obese women who seek for weight loss treatment were sequentially selected to participate in the study. Binge eating disorder was diagnosed using the Structured Clinical Interview for Diagnostic and Statistica...

BACKGROUND Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) has been widely used to treat patients with depressive disorder to prevent relapse. The objective of this study was to examine the effectiveness of newly developed MBCT program as an adjuvant to pharmacotherapy in the treatment of patients with panic disorder or generalized anxiety disorder. METHODS Forty-six patients with panic disorder o...

OBJECTIVE The current study aimed to identify the predictive values of psychological factors that are evaluated by the Symptoms Checklist-90 (SCL-90) for acute mountain sickness (AMS). METHODS The subjects (n=285, non-acclimatized young Chinese men), who were recruited in July 2013, completed a case report questionnaire. In addition, their vital signs (heart rate [HR], blood pressure and puls...

BACKGROUND The Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90) is a questionnaire that is widely used to measure subjective psychopathology. In this study we investigated the psychometric properties of the SCL-90 among adolescent inpatients and community youth matched on age and gender. METHODS The final SCL-90 respondents comprised three subsets: 201 inpatients at admission, of whom 152 also completed the ins...

BACKGROUND Several studies have reported high prevalence of anxiety and depression in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) outpatients. Moreover, these patients share psychological or psychopathological characteristics that inhibit their ability to cope with the disease. In the present study we aimed to record the prevalence of psychological symptom patterns in a sample of Greek COPD ou...