Pain, a common and distressing symptom of cancer, is not purely a physical experience. An individual’s psychological, social, emotional, and spiritual suffering make up the ‘total pain’ experience. Spiritual distress, for instance, takes the form of existential questions, search for meaning and purpose, and anger at fate. A multidisciplinary team, addressing these bio-psychosocial concerns, is ...

PURPOSE to examine racial differences in (a) the prevalence of financial exploitation and psychological mistreatment since turning 60 and in the past 6 months and (b) the experience-perpetrator, frequency, and degree of upset-of psychological mistreatment in the past 6 months. DESIGN AND METHODS random digit dial telephone recruitment and population-based survey (telephone and in-person) of 9...

Background & aim: Although pregnancy seems to be a pleasant experience in a women’s life, the accompanied physical and psychological changes lead to high levels of stress in mothers. Prenatal stress widely affects the physical and mental health of mothers and infants; therefore, adopting appropriate coping strategies are highly required. Considering the importance of coping strategies in psycho...

It is now clear that positive emotion leads to enhanced psychological functioning. What is less clear, however, is just why this is so. Drawing on a social-functional perspective, we argue that positive emotional behavior that accurately signals to others the individual's internal state will enhance social connectedness. Positive emotional behavior that does not accurately signal a person's exp...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To determine whether cancer survivors engage in health-promotion behaviors, to evaluate the extent of their experience of psychological distress, and to investigate the relationship between the practice of health-promotion behaviors and psychological distress. DESIGN Cross-sectional secondary data analysis. SETTING A national, face-to-face interview conducted by personnel...

BACKGROUND In literature, depression is associated with cardiovascular diseases. From clinical experience, we observed that the psychological category 'experience of loss' was associated with the onset and development of coronary heart disease. The experience of loss caused by self-reported significant event(s) leads to grief and the psychosocial factors which predispose the patient to diseases...

The growing trend of disasters in world and Iran, expanded range of different psychological consequences of disasters and according to them Parallel Physical consequences. Post-traumatic stress disorder may be considered the most common psychological consequences of disasters. In the absence of prevention and treatment, it can affect a person's quality of life and normal functioning of the fam...