Mood and anxiety disorders are the most prevalent mental disorders. People with such disorders implement self-management strategies to reduce or prevent their symptoms and to optimize their health and well-being. Even though self-management strategies are known to be essential to recovery, few researchers have examined them. The aim of this study is to explore strategies used by people recoveri...

The objective of this study was to assess spiritual needs of patients with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) and to evaluate correlations with disease and health associated variables. Using a set of standardized questionnaires (i.e., Spiritual Needs Questionnaire, Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire, SF-36's Quality of Life, Brief Multidimensional Life Satisfaction Scale, etc.), we enrolled 141 patient...

Objectives: Mastectomy as a treatment for breast cancer can disturb marital satisfaction of many couples. In this way, existential anxieties stemming from this potentially deleterious event, and inefficient responses to them, could be mediating. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of a rehabilitation method based on existential approach and Olson's marital enrichment m...

Anxiety disorder is one of prevalent mental health problems that affect all aspects of human life. Considering Spirituality aspect of human is essential for mental health promotion. This study aimed to identify the relation between Spirituality well-being and depression, anxiety and stress. A descriptive-analytical cross-sectional study was carried out on 100 nursing students in Islamic Azad Un...

OBJECTIVES To study the practice of continuous palliative sedation (CPS) by Dutch nursing home physicians in 2007. DESIGN A structured retrospective questionnaire. SETTING Nationwide nursing home physician study in the Netherlands. PARTICIPANTS One thousand two hundred fifty-four nursing home physicians received a questionnaire concerning their last case of CPS in 2007; 54% (n=675) respon...

Research suggests that cognitive appraisals regarding personal control and existential beliefs are important factors in the development of anxiety. These include mastery, generalized self-efficacy, locus of control, self-esteem, attributional style, and optimism. It remains unclear, however, whether these appraisals add to the prediction of anxiety beyond what can be determined by individuals’ ...

Research on the effects of chaplaincy care is scarce and hampered by methodological limitations. Our quasi-experimental study (n = 256 at baseline) aimed to gain insight into immediate intermediate impact inpatients’ existential anxiety, peace, anxiety depressive symptoms. Multilevel modeling was used analyze data. After controlling for age, gender, education, (non)religion/(non)belief religios...

Psychotherapy is a comprehensive biological treatment modifying complex underlying cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and regulatory responses in the brain, leading patients with mental illness to new interpretation of sense self others. an art science integrated psychology and/or philosophy. Neurological sciences study neurological basis cognition, memory, behavior as well impact damage disease...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the prevalence of mental disorders and related factors increase as advanced cancer patients get closer to death. METHOD Baseline, cross-sectional data from 289 patients who were assessed prior to their death as part of a multi-site, longitudinal, prospective cohort study of advanced cancer patients. Major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, panic ...