BACKGROUND Around 9% to 20% of bereaved individuals experience symptoms of complicated grief (CG) that are associated with significant distress and impairment. A major issue is whether CG represents a distinctive nosographic entity, independent from other mental disorders, particularly major depression (MD), and the role of symptoms of adult separation anxiety. The purpose of this study was to ...

some previous studies have reported that adhd is often comorbid with anxiety disorders. the aim of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of reboxetine in treating outpatient children and adolescents with adhd and comorbid anxiety disorders.in this open-label study, 25 outpatient children and adolescents, aged 6-16 years were selected by convenient sampling and underwent treatment ...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To explore linkages among empathic responding by informal caregivers with the physical symptom experiences and psychological distress of patients with ovarian cancer. DESIGN Preliminary, descriptive, correlational, and cross-sectional. SETTING Psychosocial oncology support group in Canada. SAMPLE Convenience sample of 13 women with stage I-IV ovarian cancer with the maj...

INTRODUCTION In a previous paper, that on "Separation Anxiety" (1960), I sketched briefly the sequence of responses to be observed when young children are removed from their mothers and placed with strangers. After delineating the three phases—Protest, Despair, Detachment3—I pointed out that "the phase of Protest raises the problem of separation anxiety; Despair that of grief and mourning; Deta...

Objectives: The aims of the current study were to find the prevalence of Dental Anxiety amongst Pakistani University Students and to determine the differences in relation to gender, education and level of dental anxiety. Methods and Materials: A questionnaire consisting Dental Anxiety Scale and Dental Fear Scale describing anxiety-provoking stimuli was constructed and presented to 385 universit...

The Social Interaction Anxiety Scale and Social Phobia Scale are widely used measures of social anxiety. Using data from individuals with social anxiety disorder (n = 435) and nonanxious controls (n = 86), we assessed the psychometric properties of two independently developed short forms of these scales. Indices of convergent and discriminant validity, diagnostic specificity, sensitivity to tre...

Recent evidence suggests that a clinical form of separation anxiety can be observed in adults. An important question of relevance to defining the construct of adult separation anxiety is whether there is discontinuity between that constellation and other forms of anxiety. In the present study, 2 taxometric procedures - Mean Above Minus Below a Cut and Maximum Eigenvalue - were used to assess wh...

Anxiety disorders in childhood and adolescence are extremely common and are often associated with lifelong psychiatric disturbance. Consistent with DSM-5 and the extant literature, this review concerns the assessment and treatment of specific phobias, separation anxiety disorder, generalised anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, panic disorder and agoraphobia. Evidence-based psychological ...

OBJECTIVES To demonstrate the use of Rasch analysis by assessing the appropriateness of utilizing the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) total score (HADS-14) as a measure of psychological distress. DESIGN Cross-sectional, using Rasch analysis. METHODS The HADS was administered to 296 patients attending an out-patient musculoskeletal rehabilitation program. Rasch analysis was cond...