Bu çalışmanın amacı lise öğrencilerinin sınav kaygı düzeylerinin belirlenmesi ve kaygısına etki eden faktörlerin ortaya koyulmasıdır. Lise kaygılarını incelemeye yönelik gerçekleştirilen bu çalışmada açıklayıcı karma desen kullanılmıştır. Çalışmanın örnekleminde Hatay ilinde öğrenim gören 955 öğrencisi yer almaktadır. Öğrencilerin görüşlerinin alındığı çalışma grubunda ise 21 öğrenci bulunmakta...

BACKGROUND Anxiety levels in rats are correlated with interleukin-2 (IL-2) levels in the brain. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of dioscorea (wild yam), a Chinese medicine, on emotional behavior and IL-2 levels in the brain of ovariectomized (OVX) rats. METHODS One month after ovariectomy, female Wistar rats were screened in the elevated plus-maze (EPM) test to mea...

The present study aimed to clarify the associations among radiation exposure or psychological exposure to the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident (i.e., fear/anxiety immediately after the accident), current radiation anxiety, and psychological distress among non-evacuee community residents in Fukushima five years after the Great East Japan Earthquake, which occurred in March 2011. A question...

PURPOSE To assess how patients' underlying anxiety affects their experience of distress, use of resources, and responsiveness toward nonpharmacologic analgesia adjunct therapies during invasive procedures. MATERIALS AND METHODS Two hundred thirty-six patients undergoing vascular and renal interventions, who had been randomized to receive during standard care treatment, structured empathic att...

this study is aimed at investigating the general foreign language classroom anxiety levels of iranian university students through administering horwitz scale (flcas) in addition to examining their reading anxiety through replicating saito’s reading comprehension anxiety scale (flras). the researchers further checked the former by developing and performing a new five–point likert type questionna...

transfer of patients from the cardiac intensive care unit to the general ward, is one of the main reasons for anxiety. given that the transfer anxiety may be due to receive at least, inconsistent or do not receive enough information before the patients leaving the intensive care unit, therefore, this study aimed to determine the effect of information provision on anxiety levels in patients tran...

OBJECTIVE Anxiety seems to be a frequent problem in patients with an automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator (AICD). Distressing experiences before or after AICD implantation such as resuscitation, or AICD shocks are suspected as causes for enhanced anxiety levels. A closer examination of the level and structure of anxiety in AICD patients and a comparison with panic patients might hel...