In the widely used Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) most of the items forming the Depression subscale use terms for a pleasant state of mind, whereas most of the items in the Anxiety subscale mention aversive states. Thus the constructs assessed may relate respectively to absence of positive affect and presence of negative affect, rather than to the different sorts of affect intende...

BACKGROUND Standardized communication frameworks are believed to help students feel more confident and less anxious about handover reports. One of the handover communication frameworks being used in nursing programs was the ISBARR framework (Identify, Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation, and Repeat). The aim was to explore whether learning the ISBARR framework affected nursing stu...

The purpose of present study was investigation of the effect of attentional focus of novice players’ self-statements in basketball free throw practice on their state anxiety in transfer test with spectators’ presence. Therefore, 38 novice females (mean of the age=22 yrs.) who had intermediate trait anxiety were selected randomly by sports competitive anxiety test (SCAT). The participants were a...

Forty-three anxiety disorder patients (DSM-III) who completed the Hopkins Symptom Checklist (SCL-90-R) and a caffeine questionnaire were compared to 124 medical inpatients. Eighty-four percent of the anxious patients were low caffeine consumers (0-249 mg/day) compared to 41% of medical inpatients; 65% of anxiety patients consumed less than 100 mg/day. In anxiety patients, there were no signific...

Anxiety sensitivity (AS) refers to the fear of anxiety-related sensations, which is thought to arise from beliefs about their harmful consequences. AS is a multidimensional construct that consists of fears of somatic, social, and cognitive aspects of anxiety. In the present study, we examined the relationship between AS dimensions, assessed by factor-analytically derived subscales of the Anxiet...

anxiety disorder is one of prevalent mental health problems that affect all aspects of human life. considering spirituality aspect of human is essential for mental health promotion. this study aimed to identify the relation between spirituality well-being and depression, anxiety and stress. a descriptive-analytical cross-sectional study was carried out on 100 nursing students in islamic azad un...

Abstract Worry is a central process in wide range of psychopathological and somatic conditions. Three studies ( N = 856) were used to test whether subscale composed five items the most commonly trait anxiety questionnaire, Spielberger’s State Trait Anxiety Inventory-Trait version (STAI-T), appropriate measure worry. Results showed that subscale, named Brief Scale (BWS), had excellent internal c...