BACKGROUND Few studies have examined the association between dental fear, anxiety and depressive disorders. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between dental anxiety, general clinical anxiety and depression among Finnish university students. METHODS During autumn 2007, a Modified Dental Anxiety Scale (MDAS) questionnaire was emailed to 1,551 new students at four Finnish uni...

Anxiety confers increased risk for inflammatory diseases, and elevated inflammatory activity in anxious individuals may contribute to this increased risk. One complication, however, is that anxiety could be associated with inflammatory activity either through a specific anxiety pathway or through a more general negative emotionality pathway. To investigate, we measured levels of the stress horm...

Background Infertility and diagnostic and therapeutic procedures of which during assisted reproduction technologies (ART) make discomfort and anxiety for infertile couples. Several studies have demonstrated that infertility treatment procedures, particularly during ovulation induction period, lead to high levels of distress and anxiety in infertile women. The aim of this study was to evaluate t...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the effects of different patient education techniques on patients' anxiety levels before and after dental implant surgery. MATERIAL AND METHODS Sixty patients were randomized into three groups; each contained 20 patients; [group 1, basic information given verbally, with details of operation and recovery; group 2 (study group), basic information given verbally with detai...

Associations among sexual victimization and the psychosocial functioning of African American and Latina pregnant and parenting adolescents were examined. Forty-seven (17.7%) of the 265 participants reported histories of sexual victimization, most of which was unwanted sexual intercourse. The victimized adolescents reported higher levels of depression, anxiety, and life stress and, although the ...

PURPOSE of this study was to explore the effect of social support on the levels of anxiety and depression of hemodialysis patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS 258 patients undergoing hemodialysis were enrolled. A questionnaire developed for the purpose of the study was used to collect data through the interview process. Apart from socio-demographic, clinical and other characteristics, the questionn...

OBJECTIVE Depression and anxiety and are associated with cognitive deficits and brain changes, especially in older adults. Despite the frequent co-occurrence of these conditions, cognitive neuroscience studies examining comorbid depression and anxiety are limited. The goal of the present study was to examine the unique and combined effect of depressive and anxiety symptoms on cognitive and brai...

AIM Describe levels of depression, anxiety and stress among users of an urban/rural health centre, analyse sex differences and comorbidity between depression, anxiety and stress. METHOD Descriptive co-relational study with a Portuguese version of DASS-21; consecutive sample (n=343). RESULTS 40.52%, 43.48% and 45.06% of individuals present some degree of depression, anxiety and of stress, re...

introduction: nowadays, myocardial infarction is the second factor of the deaths after accidents and cancers in the world. the coronary artery diseases are stressful for patients. this research was performed to determine the influence of discharge planning on anxiety levels in acute myocardial infarction patients.   materials and methods: this quasi-experimental study was performed on 60 patien...

conclusions limited levels of prenatal depressive and anxiety symptoms do not seem to be associated with neonatal outcomes. in clinical practice, pregnant women, who suffer from low levels of prenatal depressive and anxiety symptoms, may be reassured, in respect of the adverse outcomes of these mood symptoms on the neonate. results on the basis of bdi, 81.1% of the sample showed minimal, 15.4% ...