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eating disorders are common psychological/psychosomatic disorders that cause disturbance in physical and mental health and quality of life. binge eating disorder, in spite of being the most prevalent eating disorder, has not been largely investigated. in this article, we discuss the definition, classification, epidemiology, and physiopathology of different eating disorders, and then we focus on...

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...

The ubiquity of social media provides a rich opportunity to enhance the data available to mental health clinicians and researchers, enabling a better-informed and better-equipped mental health field. We present analysis of mental health phenomena in publicly available Twitter data, demonstrating how rigorous application of simple natural language processing methods can yield insight into specif...

UNLABELLED This exploratory study was performed from September to November 2008, with six families of patients with mental disorders from a patients and family association in Curitiba. OBJECTIVES to learn about the role of the family of patients with mental disorders, and to identify the family's perception of mental health - mental disorder, the patient with mental disorder and the mental he...

Decisions about whether a person is in need of mental health care are often made by laypeople with no training in the identification of mental health concerns. For example, the parent of a child displaying problematic behavior has to decide whether this behavior is likely related to mental health concerns and necessitates professional care. The process of identifying mental health concerns is m...

a survey of effective factors on mental health   of employed women in urmia     moghadam tabrizi f [1]     abstract:   introduction: healith, according to definition of who, is a condition of complete physical, mental, and social health. mental health may be defined as capability, in becoming coordinated with others, improving the environment, and solving the conflicts. who reported that 1% of ...

may benefit from outpatient mental health services, only 20% receive such services annually. As mental disorder and physical health problems are associated, together they may increase the probability of use by increasing need and/or access to services. The purpose of this study is to determine whether physical health complaints are associated with the use and volume of use of outpatient mental ...

working memory impairment is one of the most important cognitive deficits in patients with mild traumatic brain injury that affect mental health status even in the early stages of the disease. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the correlation between the working memory and mental health status in traumatic brain injury (tbi) patients. this cohort study was performed on 50 tbi patients a...

BACKGROUND Most research on the prevalence of mental disorders in primary care has been conducted in practices that serve middle- and upper-income patients. OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of major mental disorders in a primary care practice that serves a predominantly low-income immigrant patient population. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey; criterion standard. SETTING Urban general m...