objective: conners adult adhd rating scale (caars) is among the valid questionnaires for evaluating attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in adults. the aim of this paper is to evaluate the validity of the estimation of missed answers in scoring the screening version of the conners questionnaire, and to extract its principal components. method: this study was performed on 400 participants. a...

conclusions following cabg, the most severity of pain was reported at surgical incision on time t2. pain began to decrease from the third day following the operation. age, sex and bmi along with operation-related factors such as duration of cbp or chest tube drainage may affect the pain pattern following cabg surgery. patients and methods the present study was conducted on 138 patients who unde...

conclusions the research revealed that nonsmokers showed better mental health and dyadic adjustment than smokers, thus suggesting that smoking endangers and can impair the tranquility of families and that smoking also threatens the dyadic adjustment of couples. background the mental health and dyadic adjustment of smokers is a matter of serious concern which brings many demerits on mental healt...

Methods: Participants, aged ≥60 years, were experiencing suboptimal response—defined as irritability, agitation, and mood lability or diminished ability to take care of basic personal needs as a result of their illness—to their current bipolar disorder medication. All patients had open-label, flexible-dose, sublingual asenapine added to their current medication for 12 weeks. Responses were eval...

Fifty consecutive leg fracture patients and an equal number of age and sex matched normal controls were evaluated by psychiatric interview and mental status examination, Sinha's anxiety scale (SAS). Hamilton depression rating scale (HDRS) and the Michigan alcoholism screening test (MAST). Detailed evaluation revealed a high prevalence of alcohol dependence/ abuse (34%) and depression (8%). Leg ...

Methods Three groups of subjects (a total sample of 130) participated in the controlled-designed study: offenders with schizophrenia receiving involuntary hospital-based psychiatric treatment, non-offenders with schizophrenia receiving hospital-based psychiatric treatment and healthy controls. The self-reported, questionnaire-based measures included Psychological Well-being Scales (Ryff, 1995),...

Schizophrenia patients exhibit deficits in recognition and identification of facial emotional expressions, but it is unclear whether these deficits result from abnormal affective processing or an impaired ability to process complex visual stimuli such as faces. Participants comprised 16 outpatients with schizophrenia and 22 matched healthy control subjects who performed two computerized visual ...