background: obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (osas) is a common sleep disorder characterized by repeated upper airway obstruction during sleep. while respiratory pauses followed by loud snoring and daytime sleepiness are the main symptoms of osas,the patients may complain from sleep disruption, headache, mood disturbance, irritability, and memory impairment. however, the association of sleep ap...

two random samples, consiting of 100 female and 100 male medical students stydying at medical school of shahid chamran university in ahwaz were administered by beck depression invemtory. male students scored somewhat lower on bdi than the females but the difference was not significant. the same result was true when students enrolled in basic sciences courses and those in clinical courses were c...

knee osteoarthritis can have negative effects on the physical and mental conditions, social and family relations, general health and positive feelings of elders. for example, severe limitation of motion and increased depression, which are results of this disease, can have negative impacts on elders. the purpose of this study was to compare the levels of depression in healthy active and inactive...

background: the prevalence of diabetes mellitus (dm) is increasing, and thus, its mental consequences, such as depression, have an increasing trend. the goal of the present study was the determination of the prevalence of depression and some of its related factors in patients with type ii dm who referred to the diabetes center of rafsanjan, iran, in the year 2016. materials and methods: for thi...

In this study, 32 unmedicated patients of unipolar depression were included and blood samples were analysed for T(3), T(4) and TSH. These were compared with age and sex matched controls. Subnormal T(3) and T(4) levels in 90.6% and 9.3% respectively and an increase of TSH levels in 18.7% of the total patients was observed in this study. The patients were classified into mild, moderate and severe...

CONTEXT Longitudinal studies indicate that a lower IQ score increases risk of schizophrenia. Preliminary evidence suggests there is no such effect for nonpsychotic bipolar disorder. To our knowledge, there are no prior population-based, longitudinal studies of premorbid IQ score and risk of developing severe depression requiring hospital admission. OBJECTIVES To investigate the association be...

This study investigated the roles of current mood-state and past depression in predicting self-esteem and dysfunctional attitudes in a sample of 110 adolescents who were presently non-depressed. First, the authors tested the hypothesis that lower self-esteem and more dysfunctional attitudes would be found among adolescents with more severe past depression (after statistically controlling curren...

PURPOSE To assess the prevalence of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) and erectile dysfunction (ED) and the relationships between LUTS, ED, depression, and other factors in Korean men with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). METHODS This cross-sectional study included 124 male patients with T2DM who attended a university hospital diabetes clinic between October 2010 and April 2012. Data were c...

We examined posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression symptom trajectories during ongoing exposure to political violence, seeking to identify psychologically resilient individuals and the factors that predict resilience. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with a random sample of 1196 Palestinian adult residents of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem across three occasions, six...

The aim of the study was to examine the relationships between global sleep quality and its specific components and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptom severity questionnaire. We also researched whether sleep quality and sleep disturbances differed among groups of PTSD based on symptom severity categories. This study was conducted on the sample of 120 Croatian war veterans with PTSD. Th...