OBJECTIVE To evaluate the social functioning and health related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) in early adulthood. METHODS The patient files of the Rheumatism Foundation Hospital were screened to identify patients born in 1976-1980 diagnosed as having JIA. HRQoL was measured by the RAND 36-item health survey 1.0; spousal relationships and educatio...

OBJECTIVE To determine the more common symptoms of mental illness among Saudi adult primary health care (PHC) patients, and to apply the factor analysis of the Rahim Anxiety and Depression (RAD) Scale. METHODS This is a cross-sectional study of a sample of 641 patients that attended the PHC clinics in Al-Kharj city, from July to November 2000. Their ages ranged from 15 to 65 years. The RAD Sc...

OBJECTIVE Psychological assessment after disasters determines which survivors are acutely distressed or medically compromised and what kind of assistance is needed (whether practical or psychological). A mental health triage tool can help direct more people to the appropriate type of help. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the Fast Mental Health Triage Tool (FMHT) ...

Evaluation of cognitive functions in Parkinson’s patients without dementia with auditory event related potential (P300) Objective: Idiopathic Parkinson’s disease is a clinical situation characterized by akinesia, rigidity, and tremor, and results from the degeneration of the dopaminergic nervous system. As the disease progresses over time, depression, cognitive dysfunction and alterations in co...

PURPOSE This study sought to continue research on psychosocial interventions for patients being treated with radiation therapy across multiple centers and to replicate positive findings of a single-center study of patients being treated with chemotherapy. The primary objective of this study was to determine if a stress management intervention was effective in improving quality of life and decre...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to correlate the psychological and health-related quality-of-life status of hemodialysis (HD) patients with recovery indices following maximal and submaximal exercise tests. METHODS Twenty patients on HD (aged 53.5 ± 12.9 years) and 18 healthy individuals (aged 54.1 ± 10.2 years) underwent a maximal and a submaximal cardiopulmonary test (CPETmax and CPETsu...

BACKGROUND Physical activity level (PAL) is known to play an important role in reducing risk factors associated with sedentarism, in addition to improving the mental health and health-related quality of life (HRQL). OBJECTIVE Investigate the relationship of PAL and their domains with HRQL, mood state (MS) and anxiety. Method: 140 Physical Education students (23.6 ± 3.7 years) were evaluated. ...