purpose: this study was conducted to assess cognitive impairments, depression, anxiety and quality of life among patients with brain tumor and healthy adults, comparatively. methods: a cross-sectional study was administrated on 84 brain tumor patients and 84 healthy adults measured by the mini mental state examination, beck, hamilton and sf36 questionnaires before and after 10 days of surgery. ...

After a period of decrease, sick leave in Sweden due to psychiatric diagnoses is on the increase. The lack of established rehabilitation programmes for patients with stress-related mental disorders (SRMD) has opened up for the use of garden/nature in a multimodal rehabilitation context (Nature-Based Rehabilitation, NBR). Region Västra Götaland (VGR) started an NBR to offer additional rehabilita...

PURPOSE To establish reference values for Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) in a Dutch rehabilitation population, and to study effects of patient characteristics, diagnosis and physical activity on HRQoL in this population. METHOD Former rehabilitation patients (3169) were asked to fill in a questionnaire including the Dutch version of the RAND-36. Differences between our rehabilitation ...

OBJECTIVE To assess trajectories of autonomous and controlled motivation and physical activity over one year in subjects with chronic disabilities receiving rehabilitation. In addition, to assess whether improvements in motivation and clinical variables during rehabilitation predict physical activity. DESIGN Prospective interventional design. METHODS A total of 214 subjects with physical di...

Schizophrenia is a chronic mental illness, characterized by the loss of notion reality, failing to distinguish it from imaginary. It affects patient in life’s major areas, such as work, interpersonal relationships, or self-care, and usual treatment performed with help anti-psychotic medication, which targets primarily hallucinations, delirium, etc. Other symptoms, decreased emotional expression...

Rehabilitation is one of the medical services for achieving good health, prevention disease, andtreatment even though palliative care. This service helps people from infants until older to be ablein activities and participation independently involving not only patients but also family, caregiver,rehabilitation team (physiotherapist, speech therapist, occupational orthopedist prosthetist,social ...

Mental, neurological and substance use (MNS) disorders represent a major source of disability and premature mortality worldwide. However, in developing countries patients with MNS disorders are often poorly managed and treated, particularly in marginalized, impoverished areas where the mental health gap and the treatment gap can reach 90%. Efforts should be made in promoting help by making ment...