Social anxiety disorder is a highly prevalent psychiatric disorder, with elevated comorbidity rates with other mental health disorders and may cause severe negative consequences. In adolescence, there is a lack of research on how comorbid disorders to social anxiety tends to form particular associations. With a large sample of adolescents with a clinical diagnosis of social anxiety disorder, da...

mental health plays an important role in ensuring the dynamism and efficiency of every community. since human resources have crucial role in the cultural, social and economical developments of communities, students also are the brilliant segments of society and creators of future of each country therefore, assessing of their mental health is of utmost importance. the aim of the present study is...

Despite the availability of effective interventions, most individuals with social anxiety disorder do not seek treatment. Given their fear of negative evaluation, socially anxious individuals might be especially susceptible to stigma concerns, a recognized barrier for mental health treatment. However, very little is known about the stigma specific to social anxiety disorder. In a design similar...

The objective of this work is To investigate the prevalence, comorbidities, impairment, and treatment-seeking of social anxiety disorder in the Chinese military personnel. Military personnel (n=11,527) were surveyed from May to August 2007 using a multistage whole cohort probability sampling method. A Chinese version of the World Health Organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview ...

Social phobia is one of the most common disorders between adolescents and young adults .The aim of this study is to investigate the prevalence of social phobia in Abhar`s high school students, at the risk-period for developing social phobia, and its influencing factors . In this cross-sectional study, a total of 5526 high school students of both genders from Abhar were selected using a census s...

objective: the purpose of the present study was to examine the impact of premenstrual symptoms on health related quality of life (hrqol) in a sample of iranian women. methods: in this cross-sectional study, a sample of women aged 15–45 years, who lived in tehran were randomly recruited according to demographic questionnaire. for diagnosing the premenstrual dysphoric disorder and premenstrual sy...

Introduction: Eating Disorder Symptoms and social anxiety can be occurring in the same time. Also social anxiety is one of the important factors predicting Eating Disorder symptoms which vary among different cultures and countries. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between Eating Disorder symptoms and social anxiety in school boys.  Materials and Methods: This was a cross-...

Social phobia was studied in a North Carolina community, using DSM-III criteria. Two kinds of comparison were made: social phobia v. non-social phobia, and comorbid social phobia v. non-comorbid social phobia. Six-month and lifetime prevalence rates were 2.7 and 3.8% respectively. Social phobia had an early onset, lasted a long time and rarely recovered. Predictors of good outcome recovery in a...

background: multiple factors such as retirement, work disability, social rejection, physical illness and etc., have an impact on general health of the elders. one factor among others is the role of psychological variables. the study is intended to assess the effect of positive and negative perfectionism and type-d personality (distressed) on general health of the elders. methods: in this descri...

tire street children phenomenon is categorized as a social disorder that not only includes a great number of children and youngsters as society future capital with danger but also makes the society suffer of harms. therefore, in order to decrease this disorder we should understand its different dimensions and the factors influencing on it to find various scientific and practical solutions for i...