background: cancer can lead to fatigue and the manifestation of psychological symptoms in patients, including depression, anxiety, and stress. objectives: the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between fatigue and psychological symptoms in patients with gastrointestinal cancer. materials and methods: the study had a descriptive, cross-sectional design. we assessed levels of f...

objective : poor premorbid adjustment has been reported to be a predictor of more severe psychotic symptoms and poor quality of life in such psychotic disorders  as  schizophrenia.  however,  most  studies  were  performed  on chronic schizophrenic patients, and proposed the likelihood of recall biases and the effect of chronicity.  the aim of this study was to investigate these factors in a sa...

objective: inconsistent results have been reported regarding the symptom dimensions relevant to psychosis in symptoms check list revised (scl90-r), i.e., “psychoticism” and “paranoid ideation”. therefore, some studies have suggested different factor structures for questions of these two dimensions, and proposed two newly defined dimensions of “schizotypal signs” and “schizophrenia nuclear sympt...

Malingering is defined as the intentional production of false or grossly exaggerated physical or psychological symptoms in order to gain some external incentive (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). In this paper, the focus is on malingering psychological symptoms only. While malingering is not recognized as a mental illness in the DSM-IV-TR, it is something that warrants clinical attention...