thalassemia major is a genetic blood disorder that is detected by the symptoms of chronic and severe anemia, failure to thrive, an enlarged liver and spleen, bone deformities particularlya deformed face and bulging forehead. due to changes in physical appearance, the disease can influence on other aspects of the patient's life, so the disease could strongly impact on the mental health of t...

objective: providing treatment and educational services for consumers and their caregivers is more effective if those services are implemented based on their characteristics and differences. to partly address this objective, the present study aimed to describe and compare characteristics and differences of chronic hospitalized and household maintained consumers and their caregivers who were reg...

abstract background: identifying and using the strengths of patients, in practice, is a new territory. today, the need to educate nurses and psychiatric patients about positive psychology in practice and the importance of understanding and focusing on strengths is clear. however, little is known about the strengths the psychiatric patients use and experience. thus, this study has been designed ...

background: the experience of infertility can be extremely stressful and associated with a range of psychiatric problems in infertile women. generally; some of the risk factors which may lead to psychiatric problem are repeated unsuccessful treatment of infertility, low socioeconomic status, lack of partner support, being female, life events, etc. objective: in this study, we have analyzed the ...

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that risk for dementia in late life is increased by a history of earlier psychiatric illness, and to examine the specificity of any such association. METHODS Frequency of earlier treated psychiatric illness was established by record searches and informant histories for all persons aged over 60 who were entered on the Camberwell dementia case register over a 2-...

BACKGROUND Many risk factors have been implicated in the development of anorexia nervosa. Little is known about their relative contributions, nor in most cases is it clear whether they are specific to anorexia nervosa or risk factors for all eating disorders or for psychiatric disorder in general. METHODS We used a case-control design involving the comparison of 67 female subjects with a hist...

objectives: according to growing of aged population in iran and also high prevalence of psychiatric disorders in this group, assessment of demographical and epidemiological studies of psychiatric disorders in subjects 59 years or older in ekbatan district of tehran was the aim ofthis study. methods & materials: the subjects were chosen randomly from 1422 subjects 59 years or older, who were liv...

conclusions the research revealed that nonsmokers showed better mental health and dyadic adjustment than smokers, thus suggesting that smoking endangers and can impair the tranquility of families and that smoking also threatens the dyadic adjustment of couples. background the mental health and dyadic adjustment of smokers is a matter of serious concern which brings many demerits on mental healt...

The rich literature in phenomenological psychopathology regards the communicative difficulties accompanying psychiatric illness as a product of ‘unworlding‘: experience drastic change one’s habitual field experience. This paper argues that relationship between speech expression and unworlding is more complex than previously assumed. Not only does cause breakdown expression, but can perpetuate, ...