BACKGROUND This study sheds important light on the association between sino-nasal symptoms and global quality of life in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis waiting for endoscopic sinus surgery. Using patient-reported information collected pre-operatively, the primary objective was to report on patients' pre-surgical sino-nasal symptoms and their association with self-reported pain and depress...

BACKGROUND A long-standing debate concerns whether dysfunctional cognitive processes and content play a causal role in the etiology of depression or more simply represent correlates of the disorder. There has been insufficient appreciation in this debate of specific predictions afforded by cognitive theory in relation to major life stress and changes in cognition over time. In this paper we pre...

Background: Depression is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide. It is estimated that 5–10% of the population at any given time is suffering from identifiable depression needing psychiatric or psychosocial intervention. Objectives: To determine the prevalence of depression and associated risk factors among adult primary care consumers in Saudi Arabia. Materials and Methods: A cross-...

OBJECTIVE To determine the level of depression in diabetic patients and investigate the effect of a counseling program on the level of depression. METHODS A pre-post experimental study was conducted at the outpatient medical clinics of the Health Insurance Hospital affiliated to the Ministry of Health, Mansoura, Egypt. The study was carried out between June 2011 and September 2011. One hundre...

the study was designed to determine the rate of depression prevalence among the guidance and secondary school students in shahreza town on 1384-85. 960 boy and girl students were selected through stratified random sampling method that was assessed through beck depression inventory (bdi). the data were analyzed through frequency and chi square test.this analysis indicated that %12/9 of students ...

abstract background: the purpose of the present study is to determine the frequency and severity of depression in post-stroke patients. methods: based on a cross-sectional research design, 30 recent stroke outpatients were assessed with dsm-iv interview for depression and two self-rating depression scales, ces-d and bdi. sex differences in depression, the relationship between depression and the...

objective: considering the effects of the level of social support and self-esteem as risk factors in the onset and continuation of depression, the purpose of the current study (in addition to studying the demographic items of depression) was to investigate the correlation between depression and level of social support and self-esteem in iranian university students studying non medical majors. m...

background personal, behavioral, psychological, social and psychological factors disorders can influence the outbreak of psychological disorders. the study aimed to examine the prevalence and severity of depression and relationship with self-efficacy in diabetic patients of fereydan and chadegan cities. methods: the research was a descriptive-analytic and cross-sectional, which studies 403 pati...