Used colloquially, it is understood to be a negative state of mind, and can broadly be defined as the fear of not being able to cope with a situation that one faces. 2 “Time pressure” is another aspect related to the perception of stress today, and relates to the feeling that there is not enough time to accomplish tasks. 3 Continuously feeling unable to cope, coupled with ongoing time constrain...

unfortunately, many people, including many psychotherapists, mistakenly think that obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) in children and adolescents is rare. recent research indicates that approximately half of all adults with ocd experience clinical symptoms of the disorder during their childhood. ocd in childhood is a chronic and distressing disorder that can lead to severe impairments in socia...

Low back pain, one of the skeletal and muscular system problems, is most common chronic diseases in world. Chronic low pain an important disorder that affects daily, social, work-life individuals. The majority people experience at least once their life. In this sense, it both social economic can be acute or chronic, depending on duration syndrome. Interventional, medication, rehabilitation, exe...

Bipolar disorder is a mental disorder with chronic and remitting course. The disorder is related to high mortality and severely impairs everyday functioning. Therefore a scientifically sound and practical approach to treatment is needed. Making a long-term treatment plan usually also demands some creativity. The patient is interested in a number of issues, from the choice of therapy in acute ph...

BACKGROUND Diagnosis of depressive disorder using interviewer-administered instruments is expensive and frequently impractical in large epidemiological surveys. The aim of this study was to assess the validity of three self-completion measures of depressive disorder and other psychiatric disorders in older people against an interviewer-administered instrument. METHOD A random sample stratifie...

background parents’ mental health could be intensively influenced by disabled child, especially when there is a disorder such as autism including a wide range of behaviors and particularly social behaviors. this study aimed to evaluate the effect of negative mood management training on mental health and depression of mothers of children with autistic disorder. material and methods sample of thi...

CONTEXT The physical health consequences of childhood psychosocial adversities may be as substantial as the mental health consequences, but whether this is the case remains unclear because much prior research has involved unrepresentative samples and a selective focus on particular adversities or physical outcomes. The association between early-onset mental disorders and subsequent poor physica...

ALTHOUGH SURVEYS OF MENtal disorders have been carried out since the end of World War II, 3 crossnational comparisons were hampered by inconsistencies in diagnostic methods. This situation changed in the 1980s with the development of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS), the first psychiatric diagnostic interview designed for use by lay interviewers. The DIS was initially used in the US Epid...

Autism is a chronic psychiatric disorder in which social relatedness is profoundly affected. The parents of afflicted children as the main caregivers mostly suffer from the situation. This study aimed at investigating the economic status, social status, coping styles, personality traits and mental health in the parents of children with autism. This cross-sectional, descriptive-analytic study wa...