Background and Objectives The Scale Of Prodromal Symptoms (SOPS) and its accompanying semistructured interview, the SIPS, have been developed to assess prodromal symptoms of psychosis. It has been correlated inversely with the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) in a number of studies, a DSM-IV-derived scale to assess personal, social and occupational functioning, which has been often shown ...

background: the purpose of this study was to compare alexithymia, anxiety, depression and severity of gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders and psychiatric patients. materials and methods: this was a comparative study. study subjects consisted of 210 individuals; 129 patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders (fgid) who referred to the psychos...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the relative contribution of chronic illness and the physical effects such illness on the mental status of chronic hepatitis B patients by comparing them to inactive hepatitis B carriers, based on Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS) and Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HARS) scores. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study included 444 participants: 24...

OBJECTIVES Parkinson's disease (PD) patients are more likely to develop impaired nutritional status because of the symptoms, medications and complications of the disease. However, little is known about the determinants and consequences of malnutrition in PD. This study aimed to investigate the association of motor, psychiatric and fatigue features with nutritional status as well as the effects ...

OBJECTIVES Major depressive disorder (MDD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) are known to have significant impact on sexual functioning. They have been studied individually. Therefore, this study was planned to compare the sexual dysfunction between MDD, OCD, and GAD with healthy subjects as controls. METHOD Four groups (MDD, OCD, GAD, and healthy su...

Objectives There aren't any objective methods that may help in standard evaluation of oral surgery patient's psycho-emotional status. Without any standardized evaluation, two main problems appear: heterogeneity between studies and ineffective patient's evaluation. Therefore, Universal Scale in Oral Surgery (USOS) for patient's psycho-emotional status rating has previously been proposed by autho...

attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd) and anxiety is the most common childhood psychiatric disorder. based on studies, these disorders are more prevalent in some chronic disease. this study aimed at investigating the prevalence of adhd and anxiety in children with malignancy and anxiety in their parents and comparing the results with those of the control group. one hundred, 3-15-year-...

RATIONALE Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) frequently suffer from psychiatric disorders, and treating these symptom whereas managing the motor symptoms associated with PD can be a therapeutic challenge. PATIENT CONCERNS We report a case of PD patient with severe depression and anxiety that refused to be treated with dopaminagonists or SSRIs, the most common treatments for PD patients su...

BACKGROUND Progression in disability as measured by increase in the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) is commonly used as outcome variable in clinical trials concerning multiple sclerosis (MS). In this study, we addressed the question, whether there is a linear relationship between disability status and health related quality of life (HRQOL) in MS. METHODS 7305 MS patients were sent a q...