This study explores how employment is associated with perceived physical and mental health status in people with multiple sclerosis (MS) adjusted for sociodemographic and clinical variables stratified by age. The sample consisted of 184 MS patients divided into a younger (<45 years) and an older (≥45 years) age group. Respondents underwent an interview, a neurological examination on disability ...

BACKGROUND This study examined the causal model of relation between marital relation- ship status, happiness, and mental health in infertile individuals. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this descriptive study, 155 subjects (men: 52 and women: 78), who had been visited in one of the infertility Centers, voluntarily participated in a self-evaluation. Golombok Rust Inventory of Marital Status, Oxford H...

patients and methods in this study, 250 high school students in shiraz were selected using random cluster sampling. the samples were analyzed using the food frequency questionnaire (ffq) and the general health questionnaire (ghq-28). results according to the findings, parental mental health explains 22% of the variance in children’s mental health, so that in simultaneous regression, physical di...

background: providing and sustaining the mental health of mothers who have experienced a traumatic childbirth have significant impact on the health of the mother, family and society. this study aimed to evaluate the effect of early skin-to-skin contact in the first hour of birth on the mental health of mothers with traumatic childbirth. methods: this randomized clinical trial was conducted in 2...

BACKGROUND The emerging literature on HIV/AIDS and mental health in sub-Saharan Africa stresses that HIV-positive status is significantly related to mental illness. However, the literature has neglected an equally important concern in contexts where HIV is highly prevalent, namely, whether and how an HIV/AIDS epidemic affects the mental well-being of individuals in the general population, regar...

background: caring for a patient with heart failure can be a challenging and stressful situation. however, researchers have paid less attention to caregiving outcomes in heart failure caregivers. this study was conducted to investigate the relationship between perceived life changes and mental health of family caregivers of heart failure patients. methods: through a correlational design, a conv...

objective: spouse abuse is a worldwide health concern with prevalent psychiatric and medical consequences in victims. the present study was conducted to determine the prevalence of spouse abuse among a group of women living in tehran and survey their mental health status. methods: totally, 1186 married women were selected through a randomized systematic sampling from 22 districts of tehran. ini...

BACKGROUND Past research on the association between insomnia and suicidal ideation (SI) has produced mixed findings. The current study explored the relationship between insomnia, SI, and past-year mental health status among a large Canadian Forces (CF) sample. METHOD Data was obtained from the 2013 Canadian Forces Mental Health Survey (CFMHS), and included a large representative sample of Can...

Resource-poor social environments predict poor health, but the mechanisms and processes linking the social environment to psychological health and well-being remain unclear. This study explored psychosocial mediators of the association between the social environment and mental health in African American adults. African American men and women (n = 1467) completed questionnaires on the social env...