studies have shown that there are psychiatric patients who tend to aggressively mutilate themselves; they burn or in most cases attempt to burn themselves, attempt to severely damage their genital organs (especially amputate their penis), castrate themselves, axtract their own eyes, amputate their own hands, or commit suicide. this report introduces two psychiatric men, aged 40 and 47, who had ...

conclusions these findings support that the careful evaluation and prospective following of the psychopathology of children of parents with bipolar disorder are critical for early identification and treatment. results there were statistically significant differences between children of parents with and those without bipolar disorder regarding attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, opposition...

major depressive disorder (mdd) is one of the most common psychiatric disorders which affects married couples frequently.the present study aims to explain the role of family processes, social support and demographic factors in marital satisfaction of women with major depressive disorder (mdd).in this cross-sectional study, 188 women with mdd were randomly selected among the patients who visited...

background: attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd) is a common psychiatric disorder among children and adolescents that can be continued into adulthood in 30 to 50% of cases. adult adhd disorder can affect the performance of an individual and may predispose to drug abuse, alcoholism, smoking, sexual offenses, violation of law, educational and other social problems. the coincidences of ...

objective: conners adult adhd rating scale (caars) is among the valid questionnaires for evaluating attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in adults. the aim of this paper is to evaluate the validity of the estimation of missed answers in scoring the screening version of the conners questionnaire, and to extract its principal components. method: this study was performed on 400 participants. a...

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objective: the aim of the present study was to investigate the epidemiology of psychiatric disorders in ‎children and adolescents in five provinces of iran: tehran, shiraz, isfahan, tabriz and mashhad.‎ method: in the present study, we selected 9,636 children and adolescents aged 6-18 years through ‎multistage cluster random sampling method from tehran, shiraz, isfahan, tabriz and mashhad. ‎we ...

OBJECTIVE This study assessed relationships among psychological symptoms, past and current psychiatric disorder, functional impairment, somatic symptoms, chronic fatigue, and chronic fatigue syndrome. METHOD A prospective cohort study was followed by a nested case-control study. The subjects, aged 18-45 years, had been in primary care for either clinical viral infections or a range of other p...