BACKGROUND The primary purpose of this study was to investigate adult-child caregiver burden in heart failure (HF) patients. Secondary purpose of the study was to identify the possible influencing factors for caregiver burden and depressive symptoms in a young adult-child caregiver group. METHODS A total of 138 adult-child caregivers and 138 patients with HF participated in this study. Caregi...

OBJECTIVE The main aims of this study were: (i) to determine, for chronic whiplash-associated disorders, whether widespread pain has more severe consequences for other symptoms and different aspects of perceived health than does local/regional pain; (ii) to investigate whether pain, depression, and symptoms not directly related to pain are intercorrelated and to what extent these symptoms corre...

THE AIM of our study is to examine if the dissociation, can influence intensity of psychopathology in patients suffering with borderline personality disorders and compare the level of dissociation of the patients with the data of healthy subjects. METHODS: 24 patients suffering with borderline personality disorder (7 males and 17 females) and 31 healthy controls (9 males and 22 females) were in...

BACKGROUND We examined the association between salivary mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) copy number and chronic fatigue combined with depression and insomnia. METHODS This cross-sectional study included 58 healthy adults with moderate to severe fatigue (Brief Fatigue Inventory [BFI] ≥4) for longer than 6 months. Subjects were classified as those without combined symptoms, with either depression (Be...

OBJECTIVE To assess depressive symptoms, anxiety and quality of life in women with pelvic endometriosis. STUDY DESIGN A prospective study of 104 women diagnosed with pelvic endometriosis. The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HAM-D) were used to evaluate depressive symptoms; the Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and the Hamilton Ratin...

Purpose: Multiple sclerosis is a progressive neurological disease and a cause of many disabilities in individuals. Set of symptoms and the chronic nature of this disease, together impair the mental state of the person and cause awidervariety of psychological symptoms worsening the disease. Therefor, this study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of cognitive therapy based on mindfulness psy...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this research was to develop a disease-specific symptom inventory for soft tissue sarcoma. METHODS Literature review and clinical expert and patient interviews were conducted to determine disease-specific symptoms important to patients with one of the four STS subtypes. Clinical experts identified the most relevant STS symptom items from the item pool developed from...

OBJECTIVES To investigate differences in psychopathological, temperamental and characteristic factors between young adults with and without persistent Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms. METHODS A total of 429 university students were divided into three groups: persistent adult ADHD (n = 53), only childhood ADHD (n = 56) and healthy controls (n = 320). The Korean Adult A...

the purpose of this study was to compare symptoms of ptsd among war affected people and employees in the fire station. totally, 60 people affected by war and 60 fire workers were selected using simple random sampling. by completing pcl inventory, samples of ptsd were characterized. data was analysed through spss software by independent t-test. as the results showed, severity of ptsd symptoms am...