The present study examined utility of the Illness Attitudes Scale (IAS; [Kellner, R. (1986). Somatization and hypochondriasis. New York: Praeger Publishers]) in a non-clinical college sample (N=235). Relationships among five recently identified IAS dimensions (fear of illness and pain, symptom effects, treatment experience, disease conviction, and health habits) and self-report measures of seve...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to examine the contributions of coping and social constraint to disease activity and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and to examine group differences in disease activity and HRQOL between patients with high versus low anxiety or depression symptoms in adults with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). METHODS This study was a retrospective analysis in which diseas...

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...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The aim of the study was to evaluate the effects of a six-month physical training undertaken by haemodialysis (HD) patients, on the depression and anxiety. METHODS Patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) were recruited from the dialysis station at the Department of Nephrology and Transplantation Medicine in Wroclaw. Physical training took place at the beginning of the fir...

OBJECTIVE Anxiety is a common non-motor symptom in Parkinson's disease (PD). This study analyzed the measurement properties of three frequently used anxiety scales in PD: the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HARS), and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale-Anxiety subscale (HADS-A). METHOD The Rasch model was applied to a multicenter international cohort of...

OBJECTIVES To examine the frequency and risk factors of cognitive and anxiety-depressive disorders in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/motor neuron disease (ALS/MND). METHODS This was an observational study of 100 ALS/MND patients treated at our hospital outpatient and inpatient departments between January 2009 and April 2010 and 100 matched healthy controls. Subjects were surveyed...

INTRODUCTION In its final stages, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a severely disabling condition that is characterised by dyspnoea, which causes substantial anxiety. Anxiety is associated with an impaired quality of life and increased hospital admissions. Untreated comorbid anxiety can have devastating consequences for both patients and their relatives. Non-pharmacological intervention...

BACKGROUND Psychological functioning is an important determinant of health outcomes in chronic lung disease. To better define the role of anxiety in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a study was conducted of the inter-relations between anxiety and COPD in a large cohort of subjects with COPD and a matched control group. METHODS Data were used from the FLOW (Function, Living, Outco...

irritable bowel syndrome (ibs) is one of the most common gastrointestinal disorders particularly affecting the quality of life (qol). evaluating qol in ibs patients is a valuable method of defining a psychobiological pattern of disease. various disease specific and general instruments are now available to measure health-related qol (hrqol) in ibs patients. though, no comparison has been made be...

background: :myocardial infarction (mi) is one of the major causes of death and disability worldwide which can reduces quality of life in patients. some disabilities are depression and anxiety which delay returning to work the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of illness perception focused intervention on quality of life, anxiety and depression in mi patients. material and methods : ...