BACKGROUND The paper analyses how resilience factors and mental health problems interrelate in a 3-year-longitudinal study with 16-19 year olds. METHODS Resilience was measured with a 13-item short version of the Life-Orientation-Scale by Antonovsky (sense-of-coherence, SOC) and a 10-item self-efficacy-scale (SWE) by Jerusalem and Schwarzer. Mental health problems were measured with Derogatis...

OBJECTIVE To examine the validity and reliability of a Japanese version of the Symptom Checklist 90 Revised (SCL-90-R (J)). METHODS The English SCL-90-R was translated to Japanese and the Japanese version confirmed by back-translation. To determine the factor validity and internal consistency of the nine primary subscales, 460 people from the community completed SCL-90-R(J). Test-retest relia...

Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a syndrome usually localized in the extremities, mostly occurring after a preceding trauma or operation. Dystonia is present in a minority of CRPS patients, but, when present, leads to severe disability. Various pathological factors have been postulated to present in CRPS-dystonia, such as involvement of the sympathetic system, reorganization of the cent...