ôbjective: â depressive disorder is an illness that involves the body, mood, thoughts and behaviors. this study was performed to identify the presence of depression among medical students of ürmia üniversity of medical sciences. methods: â descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 700 undergraduate medical and basic sciences students. beck depression inventory (bdï) used for data gathe...

the present study investigated the effects of first record of co-infection of three clinostomum sp.; clinostomum complanatum (rudolphi, 1819), c. tilapiae (ukoli, 1966), and euclinostomum hetereostomum (1809) in tilapia zilii. there was differential parasitic effects resulting in selection for relatively better adaptiveness to host's microhabitats, more population size, and frequent host locati...

Background: Depression is very common amongst adolescents and the fourth leading cause of illness disability among aged 10 to 19 years. Majority studies on depression were carried out in western world, with few developing countries like Nigeria. The aim this study therefore was determine prevalence pattern depressive school age children - years seen at University Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital...

Introduction: In spite of pediatric surgical interventions being potentially curative, and the advancement in anesthesiology, fear morbidity mortality still abounds among parents. Anxiety depressive symptoms parents children undergoing anesthesia surgery could threaten postoperative recovery. This study therefore assessed prevalence factors preoperative parental anxiety depression.
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conclusions this study estimated that the prevalence of major depression among iranian individuals with pd living in kermanshah as 44%. major determinants of depression were female gender, rigidity, impaired posture, masked face, hyposmia, and anhedonia. results a total of 350 patients (52.9% men and 47.1% women) participated in this investigation. female gender (36.5% in women vs. 13.0% in men...

conclusions consultation sessions are necessary to reduce depression of patients with cancer. since depression may reduce quality of life and reaction to treatment, curing depression may relatively reduce side effects of disease for patients to have less pain and problems. background cancer is one of the chronic diseases, which increases the risk of depression. the main causes of depression amo...

Postnatal Depression (PND) is a major mood disorder associated with childbirth. In Nigeria, its prevalence ranges from 15% to 23%. Previous studies on PND in Nigeria have largely focused preponderance and the biomedical explanation regarding occurrence. Little attention has been given socioeconomic cultural factors linked This study examined some of these their implications for healthcare seeki...

background and aims: depression is an affective (mood) disorder accompanied by the sense of disappointment, incompetence, sense of transgression, fear and sense of humility. depression is the daily depressed-mood for two weeks. the aim of this study is analysis of the prevalence and effective factors on post-natal depression in women referring to garmsar city health centers in 2015. methods: th...

INTRODUCTION Bipolar disorder (BD) remains both a clinical and public health challenge worldwide, especially in developing countries such as Nigeria. Many studies have focused on prevalence and recurrences among BD service seekers but little has been documented on the nature, strength, direction, existence, and estimation of association between times to recurrence of the two possible polarities...

BACKGROUND Clinical depression is a common problem among patients who seek medical care, and diabetic patients with comorbid depression tend to have higher health care cost. A dearth of literature exists on depression among diabetics in Nigeria. The objectives of the study were to determine the prevalence of depression among diabetic patients and to determine the sociodemographic correlates of ...