background: to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis on controlled treatment trials of meta-cognitive therapy for anxiety disorders. materials and methods: studies were included if they employed controlled methodology and treated people above 18 years with anxiety disorders. case studies (with less than 4 cases) and single case designed studies were excluded. a comprehensive literature ...

a bstra ct   background: although today parents’ participation in taking care of hospitalized children is considered as an indispensable principle, it is still among the concepts with no consensus about. the main objective of this study is to define parents’ participation in taking care of hospitalized children.   materials and methods: the concept of “parents’ participation in taking care of h...

BACKGROUND Multiple Sclerosis is a disease of the central nervous system involving a variety of debilitating physical, sensory, cognitive and emotional symptoms. This literature review evaluated the impact of psychological interventions on the physiological symptoms associated with the illness. METHODS A systematic literature search was conducted using Medline, PsycINFO, Scopus, and the Cochr...