This study investigated attentional biases in children with asthma. The study aimed at testing whether children with asthma are vigilant to asthma and/or anxiety cues. Thirty-six children (18 with asthma and 18 healthy controls) aged 9-12 completed a computerised dot probe task designed to measure attentional bias to three different categories of words: asthma, anxiety symptom and general negat...

Perceptions of computer self-efficacy (CSE) and computer anxiety are valuable predictors of various computer-related behaviors, including acceptance and utilization of information systems (IS). Although both factors are purported to have general and application-specific components, little research has focused on the application or system-specific component, especially in IS acceptance contexts....

Background and Objectives: The aim of the present study was to determine the relationship between dimensions of religious and spiritual wellbeing, stress, anxiety, and depression in students of Qom University of Medical Sciences and as well as to access the predictability of stress, anxiety, and depression from the levels of religious-spiritual dimension in students. Methods: In this de...

this study aimed to determine the effectiveness of schema therapy in the treatment of social anxiety disorder. method: the research method was a single-case experimental design with multiple baselines. five clients were selected by purposive sampling method. they were received 20 individual sessions based on young's schema therapy model. the social phobia inventory (spin), liebowitz social anxi...

anxiety is a mental state that is elicited in anticipation of threat or potential threat. sensations of anxiety are a normal part of human experience, but excessive or inappropriate anxiety can become an illness. anxiety is part of the normal human experience. we may speculate that it served human survival during evolution by enhancing preparedness and alertness. however, anxious manifestations...

INTRODUCTION Patients with unrecognized psychiatric disorders in general hospitals, suffer economic and psycho-social difficulties. This study aimed to determine (i) prevalence and pattern of psychiatric disorders, and (ii) prevalence of unrecognized psychiatric disorders among adult in-patients of a general hospital. METHODS In this two-stage, cross-sectional study, we used (i) General Healt...

objective: the objective of this study was analyzing the effect of meta-cognition elements on depression, trait and state anxiety symptoms.  methods: in this study, the sample consisted of 224 students of university of social welfare and rehabilitation sciences that answered three questionnaires including metacognitive questionnaire (mcq-30), beck depression inventory (bdi-ii) and spielberger s...

conclusions the results of this study show that patients with sle have poorer hrqol in physical components whereas the mental component of qol is relatively similar to healthy individuals. depression and anxiety were not related to clinical manifestations of sle. however, the sf domain of hrqol was the most susceptible component of qol, which was affected by sle clinical variables. the high est...

background: psychological profile of inflammatory bowel disease patients is not well studied in iran. we investigated the psychological status of iranian patients with ulcerative colitis (uc) and its relationship with disease activity and quality of life (qol). materials and methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted on adult uc patients. the lichtiger colitis activity index, hospital anxie...