background: aging population and prevalence of diseases like cancer among them have affected general health of the elderly, so that one of the influential factors on health components of elderly patients with cancer is death anxiety, which has important consequences in them. methods: in this cross-sectional (descriptive correlational) study, 130 elderly patients with cancer undergoing chemother...

Chapter Two – A smaller amygdala is associated with anxiety in Parkinson's disease – a combined FreeSurfer-Voxel-based-morphometry study under review Two A smaller amygdala is associated with anxiety in Parkinson's disease – a combined FreeSurfer-Voxel-based-morphometry study Abstract Up to 50 percent of all Parkinson's disease (PD) patients develop symptoms of anxiety during the course of thei...

In recent years, the development of neuroimaging techniques such as high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), positron emission tomography (PET), or single photon emission tomography (SPECT) has promoted the identification of structural and functional characteristics underlying mental disorders to a great extent. In anxiety disorders, recent...

This study presents a trial in which the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) was introduced among general medicine clinic patients on a Navajo Indian reservation in Chinle, Arizona, to test its utility in enhancing recognition of significant psychiatric problems. It was found useful in alerting physicians to suicidal patients, and in identifying risk factors such as household size and number of ...

UNLABELLED Prevalence of generalised anxiety disorders is widespread in Great Britain. Previous small-scale research has shown variations in minor tranquiliser prescribing, identifying several potential predictors of prescribing volume. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to investigate the relationship between general practice minor tranquiliser prescribing rates and practice population and general p...

While extensive research has been performed in relation to anxiety in general, there is a marked paucity of investigation on older adulthood, especially in relation to those individuals living with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia, with the majority of such studies clinically based and focusing upon ‘formal’ anxiety disorders. It is however becoming increasingly evident that the det...

Purpose: This study was conducted aimed at investigating the effect of teaching philosophy to children on general health and anxiety among middle school students. Methodology: This was an applied study in terms of purpose and a quasi-experimental one, with a pre-test and a post-test and control and experimental groups, in terms of data collection method. The statistical population included the...

An increasing body of evidence suggests that anxiety is associated with the risk of coronary heart disease. Literature on the association between anxiety and stroke is scarce and inconsistent. Although 1 study found no association between generalized anxiety disorder and stroke, another study showed that the risk of stroke increased with increasing anxiety symptom score. Therefore, these findin...

This self-report measure indicates the intensity of feelings of anxiety; it distinguishes between state anxiety (a temporary condition experienced in specific situations) and trait anxiety (a general tendency to perceive situations as threatening). It was originally developed as a research instrument to study anxiety in normal adult population samples, but it can also be used to screen for anxi...