background: brief family interventions may have a positive impact on family caregivers of mental disorders. this study aimed to evaluate the effect of family psycho-education on depression, anxiety and stress in family caregivers of patients with mental disorders. methods: this randomized controlled trial designed and evaluated the effectiveness of a group psycho-educational program on 100 care...

conclusions it seems that implementation of an appropriate interventional program related to adaptive ways of coping in order to deal with stress is effective in mental health and quality of life promotion. results the most and the least used ways in coping with stress were planful problem solving and confronting coping. considering the quality of life, the most and the least scores were relate...

Sympathetic neural responses to mental stress are well documented but controversial, whereas sympathetic neural responses to emotional stress are unknown. The purpose of this study was to investigate neural and cardiovascular responses to emotional stress evoked by negative pictures and reexamine the relationship between muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) and perceived stress. Mean arteri...

Mental and emotional arousal are known to trigger coronary events. The relation between hypercholesterolemia, behavioral factors, and mental stress-induced alterations in endothelial function are not well defined. Flow-mediated brachial arterial vasodilation has been established as a measure of arterial endothelial function. High-resolution ultrasound was used to measure mental stress-mediated,...

This study examined the effect of combined heat and mental stress on neurovascular control. We hypothesized that muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) and forearm vascular responses to mental stress would be augmented during heat stress. Thirteen subjects performed 5 min of mental stress during normothermia (Tcore; 37 ± 0°C) and heat stress (38 ± 0°C). Heart rate, mean arterial pressure (MAP...

OBJECTIVES The purposes of this database study were to determine: 1) the relationship between mental stress-induced ischemia and ischemia during daily life and during exercise; 2) whether patients who exhibited daily life ischemia experienced greater hemodynamic and catecholamine responses to mental or physical stress than patients who did not exhibit daily life ischemia, and 3) whether patient...

mental stress and daily crises comprise a part of physical and mental threats. perceived stress is a physical and mental threat, as well. perceived stress is a psychological process during which the individual considers his/ her physical and psychological welfare as being threatened. since idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (itp) is one of the chronic diseases being able to affect patients' pe...

background and purpose: cardiovascular diseases are the most common causes of death worldwide and stress is the reason behind many negative emotions. surgery is one of the most stressful situations. coping styles and life expectancy affect people's mental and physical efficacy. the present study aims to determine the effectiveness of training life expectancy and effective coping styles to ...

introduction: mental health is an important matter in human life and very effective in personal and social life. the aim of this research is studying the effective factors on mental health in employees working environment. methods: this research is a descriptive-cross sectional study and the sample includes 749 individuals of official staff selected via two-step cluster sampling. the samples we...