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...

the aim of this study was to examine whether formal and informal social activities are associated with a lower risk of depression. besides, we investigated which type of social activities may protect against late-life depression by gender using data from a population-based study of older korean adults.data for analysis were drawn from the 2010 korean longitudinal study of aging. study sample in...

background: depression and anxiety had negative effects on the quality of life of cancer patients, thus hospital anxiety and depression scale (hads) is a useful instrument for screening these problems. this research was performed to assess the prevalence of their anxiety and depression. methods: from 2012-2013, one hundred fifty patients with recent diagnosis of different cancers in babol, iran...

introduction: depression as a disorder is relatively common in all societies several factors are involved in depression development, that shift work is one of these factors. this study compared the frequency of depression in different shifts of nurses in hospitals of yazd university of medical sciences. materials & methods: this study is a descriptive analytical study. based on statistical meth...

the aim of this study was to explore the relationship between diabetes and depression and investigate the effects of comorbid diabetes and depression on healthcare utilization.the study sample included 10,179 korean adults aged ≥ 45 years. the presence of diabetes was assessed by asking participants if the participants had ever been diagnosed with diabetes. depression was measured using the 10-...

objective: premenstrual syndrome (pms) is a cluster of physical and emotional changes that typically begins several days before the menstrual period that disappears quickly after menstruation. it seems that cooccurrence of depression increases the risk and severity of this syndrome. in this cross-sectional research, we evaluated an association between pms and depression in medical students. met...

background and aims: depression disorder is one of the most common diseases, but the diagnosis is widely complicated and controversial because of interventions, overlapping and confusing nature of the disease. so, keeping previous patients’ profile seems effective for diagnosis and treatment of present patients. use of this memory is latent in synthetic neuro-fuzzy algorithm. present article in...

objective: the objective of the present study is to investigate the relationship of perceived social selfefficacy (psse) with depression in students. methods: the sample of the present study consisted of 216 adolescent students including 120 males and 96 females randomly selected from different educational institutes of karachi, pakistan. the age of the participants ranged from 16 to 19 years o...

background: fatigue, depression, and physical impairment are common  among  multiple  sclerosis (ms) patients. the aim  of  this  study was to  determine  the   relationship between depression,  physical impairment,  and  fatigue  in an iranian ms cohort. methods: fifty consecutive  relapsing-remitting ms patients and  50 age- and  sex-matched healthy  controls (hcs) were recruited  from sina r...

depression, as a mental disorder, affects more than 300 million people of all ages every year. it is said to be associated with neuroinflammation. depression has affected women more than men. over the world, people are disabled due to depression rather than any other condition. neuroinflammation is the brain’s reaction to injury. apparently there is a link between neuroinflammation and depressi...