The purpose of this study is to evaluate trait anxiety and state anxiety in first year students from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, verifying differences between three great areas of knowledge - Biomedical, Humanistic and Technological. The entrance to a University can be perceived as a threatening situation that seems to suffer influence from the different characteristics of ea...

Introduction. Motor learning (AM) represents a set of internal and permanent changes in the individual's ability to perform motor task. This can be influenced by complexity task anxiety. Objective. To evaluate using gamified Trail Making Test correlate data with anxiety female university students. Method. The sample was comprised 33 right-handed students between 18 25 years age randomized two g...

OBJECTIVE To describe maternal anxiety associated with newborn genetic screening for type 1 diabetes during the first year after risk notification. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Mothers of at-risk infants (n = 435), identified through newborn genetic screening as part of the Prospective Assessment of Newborn for Diabetes Autoimmunity (PANDA) study, were administered a short form of the State Tr...

The purpose of the study was to examine whether poor working conditions influenced drivers' psychological health, and to identify drivers' personality characteristics. The subjects were 208 bus drivers working in the European sector in Istanbul. Their personality characteristics, psychological symptoms and anxiety levels were investigated using the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ), the S...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the prevalence and clinical correlates of anxiety and depression in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and to examine the relationship between anxiety and depression and the quality of life (QOL). METHODS One hundred and seventeen patients with PD completed the state-trait anxiety inventory (STAI), the beck depression inventory second edition (BDI-II), Starkstein'...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to investigate whether acupuncture can improve memory and reduce anxiety. DESIGN, SETTING AND SUBJECTS A two-group, randomized, single-blind study involving 90 undergraduate university students was conducted from January to December of 2011. INTERVENTIONS Subjects completed the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) form Y-1 (State Anxiety, SA) and Y-2 ...

Anxiety and health related Quality of Life (HRQoL) have emerged as important mental health measures in obstetric care. Few studies have systematically examined the longitudinal trajectories of anxiety and HRQoL in pregnancy. Using a linear growth modeling strategy, we analyzed the course of State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI)- and Short Form (36) Health Survey (SF-36) scores between the 12th a...

Background. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) and colonoscopy (CS) can evoke anxiety, embarrassment, and discomfort. These concerns can culminate in panic attacks, which may traumatize patients and significantly decrease their compliance to the procedure. The objective of this study was to evaluate the relationship between preendoscopic anxiety and the possibility of a panic attack during an ele...

Purpose: There are conflicting data about the effects of fetal echocardiography (fECHO) on psychiatric symptoms mother and cardiac evaluation fetus. 
 Methods: This study included 119 pregnant women who evaluated using fECHO as group 65 healthy ultrasonography for routine screening control group. All participants filled out State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)...