BACKGROUND Studies have shown an association between parental distress and caretaking of children with developmental cognitive delays. There is little data in developing countries, such as Pakistan, concerning the impact of raising children with intellectual disability upon the quality of parent functioning and risk for psychopathology. OBJECTIVE To assess the level of psychopathology i.e. an...

background: studies suggest a high prevalence of anxiety and depression in breast cancer patients compared with other types of cancer. note that depression and anxiety influence other important parameters such as the patient's psychological status, quality of life, patients´ immune system, efficiency of treatment, duration of hospitalization and survival, the researchers design and implement st...

Depression diagnosis is associated with decreased prefrontal thickness and hippocampal volume. Less known about these associations in the general population across lifespan. We investigate between (subclinical) depression brain structure, moderating effects of age sex.

BACKGROUND The clinical features of type 2 diabetes may differ depending on whether first depression episode precedes or follows the diagnosis of diabetes. METHODS Type 2 patients from the observational community-based Fremantle Diabetes Study Phase II underwent assessment of lifetime depression using the Brief Lifetime Depression Scale (developed and validated for this study) supplemented by...

BACKGROUND No longitudinal studies have addressed the effect of late life depression on the physical and mental health status of their informal caregivers. OBJECTIVE To examine whether a diagnosis of depression in older medical inpatients is associated with the physical and mental health status of their informal caregivers after 6 months, independent of the physical health of the care recipie...

OBJECTIVE To examine the differences in health behaviors, and obesity between Hispanics and non-Hispanic Whites with depression. DESIGN Depression data were gathered from 38 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands using the 2006 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, a state-based random-digit-dialed telephone survey of adults aged > or =18 years (n=156,9...

objective: premenstrual syndrome (pms) is a cluster of physical and emotional changes that typically begins several days before the menstrual period that disappears quickly after menstruation. it seems that cooccurrence of depression increases the risk and severity of this syndrome. in this cross-sectional research, we evaluated an association between pms and depression in medical students. met...

INTRODUCTION Our purpose was to determine the prevalence and correlates of self-reported symptoms of depression and physician-diagnosed depression and anxiety in Florida adults by using the 2006 Florida Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). METHODS The BRFSS is an ongoing, state-based telephone health survey of noninstitutionalized adults that uses random-digit dialing. In 2006,...

Abstract Introduction Depression and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are highly comorbid, each is independently associated with worsened health outcomes increased economic burden. This study aimed to determine the effect of occult OSA on incident depression among a national sample Medicare beneficiaries. We hypothesized that relative non-sleep disordered controls, older adults would demonstrate g...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether demographic and clinical factors are associated with a diagnosis of depression among persons with schizophrenia and to determine the association of depression with subjective quality of life. A consecutively admitted sample of psychiatric inpatients diagnosed with schizophrenia (n = 123) were assessed for depression and quality of life. Logisti...