STUDY DESIGN A prospective, nonrandomized study. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of periodic intraoperative text messages (SMS) in reducing parental anxiety level during posterior spinal fusion (PSF) surgery for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) patients. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA No studies have reported the use of intraoperative SMS to reduce level of anxiety in parents of pa...

BACKGROUND Depression is common in patients with cardiometabolic diseases but little is known about the relationship, if any, between cardiovascular risk factor values and depressive symptoms in patients with these conditions. The objective of this paper is to study the association between cardiovascular risk factors and concurrent depressive symptoms in patients with three common cardiometabol...

The heaviest element identified chemically is Z=112. Using the gas-phase thermochromatography technique, its volatility, i.e., the adsorption enthalpy, ∆Hads, on gold plated detectors located along the chromatography column was investigated and compared to that of Hg [1]. Very recently, results of the first chemical studies on element 114 using the same technique were reported [2,3]. Both eleme...

AIMS To identify the prevalence and major determinants of anxiety and depression symptoms in patients with diabetes. METHODS A cross-sectional study of 2049 people with Types 1 and 2 diabetes, selected from patients experiencing three different models of care in Ireland: (i) traditional mixed care; (ii) hospital/general practitioner (GP) shared care; (iii) structured GP care. Anxiety and depr...

OBJECTIVE The Disease Activity Score in 28 joints (DAS28), used to assess disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), is a composite score comprising clinical, biochemical, and patient self-report measures. We hypothesized that psychological factors (cognitions and mood) would be more strongly associated with patient-reported components of the DAS28 than clinical or biochemical components. ...

Background: Anxiety and depression are most common psychiatric disorders in chronic inflammatory rheumatic condition as well axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) (1). The prevalence of has been reported 11-64% depending on the criteria used. Also self-reported anxiety were found to be associated with disease activity function axSpA (1,2). It is observed that mental health affected among healthy subj...

Background: Impingement syndrome is a disorder of unknown etiology in which the restriction shoulder movements result inflammation joint capsule and its ligaments. Aim: To explore relationship depression anxiety among Patients Adhesive Capsulitis, correlation despair nervousness with pain disability index Capsulitis. Methodology: A correlational study was conducted 280 patients both genders fro...

BACKGROUND Chronic pain is a common cause of reduced quality of life. Recent studies suggest that chronic pain patients have a different brain neurometabolic status to healthy people. Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS) can determine the concentrations of metabolites in a specific region of the brain without being invasive. PATIENTS AND METHODS We recruited 56 chronic pain patient...

AIM To examine whether elevated anxiety and/or depressive symptoms are related to all-cause mortality in people with Type 2 diabetes, not using insulin. METHODS 948 participants in the community-wide Nord-Trøndelag Health Survey conducted during 1995-97 completed the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale with subscales of anxiety (HADS-A) and depression (HADS-D). Elevated symptoms were define...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine the level of social anxiety in acne vulgaris patients and to examine its relationship to the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of acne, as well as to depression, self-esteem, and negative automatic thoughts. METHOD The study included 83 acne vulgaris patients from the dermatology outpatient unit of a university hospital and 58 h...