background & aim: clinical definition of depression disorder has changed and made precise over the time. some studies reported depression during pregnancy was more common than postpartum depression. the purpose of this study is to evaluate prevalence and factors that may be contributing to the depression in pregnant women in sarakhs city. methods:this cross sectional study was conducted on 300 ...

background: the symptoms related to depression in patients with cancer are a major problem and could influence the treatment and survival of patients. this disorder is varied in different populations and in different studies. methods: we evaluated the prevalence of depression with beck depression inventory (bdi) scale in 400 patients with cancer. this measurement was after the diagnosis of mali...

BACKGROUND Previous research has documented that the symptoms of bipolar disorder are often mistaken for unipolar depression prior to a patient's first bipolar diagnosis. The assumption has been that once a patient receives a bipolar diagnosis they will no longer be given a misdiagnosis of depression. The objectives of this study were 1) to assess the rate of subsequent unipolar depression diag...

INTRODUCTION Depression and chronic disease have implications for women's overall health and future pregnancies. The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence and predictors of diabetes and chronic disease risk factors among reproductive-age women with depression. METHODS We used population-based data from the 2006, 2008, and 2010 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to exa...