AIM The Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale (MSAS) is a multidimensional tool developed to evaluate measure the prevalence, characteristics and distress of common symptoms related to cancer. A validated Turkish version has now become available. The aim of this study was to evaluate its reliability and validity. METHODS One hundred-twenty patients were included into this study. The MSAS, The Rot...

BACKGROUND While there is a considerable amount of literature addressing consequences of trauma in veterans and holocaust survivors, war and postwar civilian populations, particularly children, are still understudied. Evidence regarding intergenerational effects of trauma in families is inconsistent. OBJECTIVE To shed light on intergenerational aspects of trauma-related mental health problems...

PURPOSE The study objectives are to translate the 21-item Cognitive Symptom Checklist-Work (CSC-W21) to Dutch (CSC-W DV) and to validate the CSC-W DV in working cancer patients. METHODS The CSC-W21 was cross-culturally translated and adapted to a Dutch version. In this 19-item version, the dichotomous response option was changed to an ordinal five-point scale. A validation study of the CSC-W ...

Objective and methodology To identify if the depressive symptoms presented by first-year medical students were associated with poor performance. The study included 774 first-year undergraduate medical students (66.4% female, 33.6% male, average age: 18.6 ± 1.7 years). The Beck Depression Inventory and the SCL90 (Symptom Checklist) depression subscale were used. Statistical analysis. Descriptive...

INTRODUCTION Working at unusual hours has been found to be related to sleep problems, psychiatric symptoms, and low quality of life. This study aimed to investigate the effect of sleep quality on psychiatric symptoms and the quality of life in newspaper couriers who permanently wake up at early morning hours. METHODS Thirty-five newspaper couriers who worked for a media company in Ankara and ...

BACKGROUND Active and passive physical exercises in patients under palliative (long term) care in palliative wards and home hospices are a necessary means of prevention or reduction of pulmonary complications, disorders of respiratory function, vascular complications, disorders of lymphatic and venous function, and musculoskeletal dysfunction. The goal of this study was to assess the dynamics o...

OBJECTIVE To test the effectiveness of two programmes to improve the treatment of acute depression in primary care. DESIGN Randomised trial. SETTING Primary care clinics in Seattle. PATIENTS 613 patients starting antidepressant treatment. INTERVENTION Patients were randomly assigned to continued usual care or one of two interventions: feedback only and feedback plus care management. Fee...