there are two dominant approaches to describe and understand the anatomy of complete health and well-being systems internationally. yet, neither approach has been able to either predict or explain occasional but dramatic crises in health and well-being systems around the world and in developed emerging market or developing country contexts. as the impacts of such events can be measured not simp...

Objective: The current study seeks to investigate the mechanisms through which mindfulness is related to social anxiety symptoms in a clinical sample of adults by examining whether experiential avoidance and specific cognitive emotion regulation strategies (rumination, catastrophizing, and reappraisal) mediate associations between mindfulness and social anxiety symptoms. Methods: Statistical p...

objective: quality of life (qol) assessment has been employed increasingly to evaluate outcome among patients with chronic medical conditions. such assessment could be adversely affected by psychiatric disorders, co existing with such a medical condition. method: a cross sectional study of 251 out-patients with diabetes mellitus was done at a nigerian university teaching hospital using the comp...

Growing research finds that reports of discrimination are associated with mental health. However, many US studies are focused on regional samples and do not control for important confounders such as other stressors and response factors. The present study examines the association between self-reported racial discrimination and DSM-IV defined mental disorders among Asian respondents to the 2002-2...

aim: the aim of this study was comparing behavioral disorders in students with depressed and non-depressed mothers.methods: this case-control study was conducted among 35 (7-11 years old) children of depressed mothers as a case group and 35 children of healthy mothers as control group in ahvaz, iran, in 2015-16. the sample size was selected by multistage random cluster sampling. research tools ...

background: as sleep has a critical role in health and social function and also, changes in women's sleep patterns can be the first indicator of mood disorders this study was conducted to investigate the sleep disorders among women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder. methods: in this study, using standard tools of general sleep questionnaire (gsq) and berlin questionnaire, sleep disorders amo...

major depressive disorder (mdd) is one of the most common psychiatric disorders which affects married couples frequently.the present study aims to explain the role of family processes, social support and demographic factors in marital satisfaction of women with major depressive disorder (mdd).in this cross-sectional study, 188 women with mdd were randomly selected among the patients who visited...

Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the overall health and happiness of healthy mothers of children with sleep disorder. Methods and material: This study was cross sectional study. To collect data from general health questionnaire (GHQ -28) with 28 questions and four subscales (somatic disorders, anxiety, social dysfunction and depression) and Oxford happiness questionnaire on five facto...

recently, tremendous studies have been made on psychopathology and treatment of social anxiety disorder. according these studies, several models of etiology have been developed for sad. some concepts that studied include temperamental and genetic factors, environmental factors and learning experiences, social skill deficits, cognitive factors, cultural issues and evolutionary factors. etiologic...