OBJECTIVES Currently, little is known about the prevalence of mental disorders in athletes. This study aims to investigate Australian elite athletes' symptoms of general psychological distress and common mental disorders. DESIGN A cross-sectional survey design was employed to assess self-reported symptom prevalence. METHODS A total of 224 elite athletes (118 female, 106 male) from national ...

objective: suicide is one of the most important early causes of death in psychotic patients. the main object of this research was to determine the relationship between positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia and psychotic major depressive disorder (mdd) with suicidal history and risk. methods: sixty five patients with schizophrenia compared to 65 patients with psychotic mdd in a cross s...

Background High rates of non-psychotic psychopathological symptoms have been observed in clinical population at clinical high risk (CHR) for psychosis. These comorbid disorders affected the baseline functional level of CHR patients. However, little is known about the comorbid mental disorder in CHR individuals in non-clinical adolescent population. This study aimed to investigate the comorbid m...

BACKGROUND Researchers generally agree that mental disorder represents a burden to the family. The present study concerns the subjective burden of living with a person with mental disorder, more specifically the association between mental disorder in the index person and subjective well-being and symptoms of anxiety and depression in the spouse. METHODS Data were obtained from questionnaires ...

thalassemia major is a genetic blood disorder that is detected by the symptoms of chronic and severe anemia, failure to thrive, an enlarged liver and spleen, bone deformities particularlya deformed face and bulging forehead. due to changes in physical appearance, the disease can influence on other aspects of the patient's life, so the disease could strongly impact on the mental health of t...

OBJECTIVES To examine the relationship between level of insight and various subjective experiences for patients with schizophrenia. MATERIALS AND METHODS Seventy-four patients with schizophrenia who were discharged from our hospital were evaluated. The level of insight into their illness and various subjective experiences were evaluated at discharge. We used the Scale to Assess Unawareness of...

introduction: vulnerability has an important role in ptsd, which can be either genetic or acquisitive. according to research, the disorder coexists simultaneously with at least another psychiatric disorder and can be a disorder comorbid with a predictive factor, which influences the process from afflicting to medication. this study was performed to determine ptsd accompanying disorders in the p...

abstract: the aim of the present research was to determine the role of temperament and character in prediction of symptoms obsessive disorder in adolescents. the research sample consisted of 60 who were selected from among students with symptoms of obsessive through the randomly sampled method in high schools of ardabil city. to collect the data, temperament and character inventory and obsessiv...

background: elder abuse and neglect (ean) comprises emotional, financial, physical, and sexual abuse, neglect by other individuals, and self-neglect. elder abuse and neglect in seniors with psychiatric morbidity was not monitored in the czech republic at all, despite the literature shows mental morbidity as one of the important risk factor for developing elder abuse and neglect. methods: we des...