Background and aims: Depression is the most common psychiatric disorder, and students are morepredisposed to depression than other populations. This meta-analysis was conducted to estimate themean depression score in Iranian students based on DASS-21.Methods: The search was carried out using keywords Depression, Student, DASS-21 and Iran indomestic databases, including S...

BACKGROUND A series of recent papers have reported normative data from the general adult population for commonly used self-report mood scales. AIMS To bring together and supplement these data in order to provide a convenient means of obtaining percentile norms for the mood scales. METHOD A computer program was developed that provides point and interval estimates of the percentile rank corre...

This article describes the efficacy of a guided imagery intervention for decreasing depression, anxiety, and stress and increasing comfort in psychiatric inpatients with depressive disorders. A quasi-experimental design sampled 60 short-term hospitalized depressive patients selected consecutively. The experimental group listened to a guided imagery compact disk once a day for 10 days. The Psych...

Results Participants were representative of the SICU staff with 69% nurses, 88% females, age average of 44, and 11.8 (±10.1, SD) average years working in the SICU. Participant biological indices of stress, measured by the level of salivary a-amylase, was significantly reduced in the intervention group (t=2.562, p=0.026) only. Behaviorally, they rated their experience of stress using the Depress...

This study explored several, latent factor models of the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale?21 (DASS?21) using both a sample clinically depressed patients Facebook from Serbia. The DASS?21, Beck Inventory?II, State Trait Inventory?Trait were administered to individuals (N = 296; Mage 52.21, SDage 11.56). A 376; =29.12, SD 8.96) completed DASS?21 only. bifactor model with one general distress (...

Background: Mental health of cricket players has been a topic debate for considerable time across the globe. Objectives: The purpose this study was to investigate prevalence mental symptoms among semi-professional male experienced during COVID-19, as well relationship between age and Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale (DASS-21) sub-scale. Methods: were assessed (n = 90) using following instrumen...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Stress and burnout impact resident physicians. This prospective study tests the hypothesis that a mindfulness-based resilience intervention would decrease stress and burnout in residents. METHODS Resident physicians from the Departments of Family Medicine, Psychiatry, and Anesthesia at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, participated in two or three 1-hour sessions of m...