BACKGROUND To investigate how social support relates to mental health problems for Belgian late adolescents and young adults 15-25 years of age. Additionally, we examine changes in mental health problems between 2008 and 2013 and investigate gender differences. METHODS Multivariate analysis of variance was used to investigate (1) psychological distress, (2) anxiety and (3) depression among 71...

The promise of genetic medicine is to provide information, based on genotype, to persons not yet sick about their risk of future illness. However, little is known of the long-term psychological effects for asymptomatic persons learning their risk of having a serious disease. Predictive genetic testing for Huntington's disease (HD) has been offered for the longest time for any disease. In the pr...

BACKGROUND The relationship between coping styles and mental disorders has received considerable attention and instruments have been developed to assess coping strategies. The measurement by means of category systems has been criticized and a functional hierarchy of action types linked to the adaptive processes is preferred. We aimed to determine which factors may exist within the Brief-COPE (B...

BACKGROUND Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is often presented with major depression (MD). GAD-MD can be a chronic and disabling condition, and patients suffering from this disorder often respond poorly to psychopharmacological treatment and experience side effects with medication. Therefore, there is a high demand for effective nonpharmacological therapy for GAD-MD patients. The current stud...

The purpose of this study was to examine the SCL-90 profiles of adult outpatients with and without dissociative disorders. A total of 194 participants were administered the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Dissociative Disorders-Revised (SCID-D-R) and the Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90). Patients with dissociative identity disorder (DID) reported significantly higher SCL-90 Global Severit...

Abstract Little is known about the psychological adjustment of parents children with cancer relapse or remission. This study investigated differences in caregivers different prognosis, by comparing them a control group. In total, 183 participated this study: those relapse/on treatment (n = 32), remission/off 75), and “healthy” 76). The Beck Depression Anxiety Inventories, Symptom Check list-90-...

this is a descriptive study. the purpose was to determine how children with leukemia receives nursing care. a sample of 40 children with leukemia from six hematology wards in three hospitals was selected. data were gathered by observation, children's documents, and then filling an observational check list. results showed that nursing care in 65 percent of cases was intermediate, and in 35 ...