Tang, Hao Xiong, Tingting Shi, Jiabo Chen, Yu Liu, Xiaoxue Zhang, Siqi Wang, Huan Lu, Qing Yao, Zhijian
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BMC Psychiatry
Background Recent attention has focused on the role of rumination in suicidality, with evidence indicating that rumination may be positively related to suicidal ideation. There remains disagreement on the nature of the relationship between rumination and suicide attempts, especially in major affective disorders. This study was designed to identify ...
Conrad, Rupert Forstner, Andreas J. Chung, Man-Long Mücke, Martin Geiser, Franziska Schumacher, Johannes Carnehl, Friederike
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Background There is evidence for the relevance of attachment style and anger expression for the manifestation of social anxiety disorder (SAD). Method In a cross-sectional study 321 individuals with social anxiety disorder (41% men, age 38.8 ± 13.9) were compared with 94 healthy controls (37% men, age 35.8 ± 15.1) on several questionnaires (Attachm...
Elbakary, Nervana Ouanes, Sami Riaz, Sadaf Abdallah, Oraib Mahran, Islam Al-Khuzaei, Noriya Eltorki, Yassin
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Background Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) requires therapeutic interventions during the initial month after being diagnosed for better disease outcomes. International guidelines recommend a duration of 4–12 weeks for an initial antidepressant (IAD) trial at an optimized dose to get a response. If depressive symptoms persist after this duration, gu...
Ariapooran, Saeed Khezeli, Mehdi
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Background Anxiety symptoms have been reported in many populations during the COVID-19 pandemic, but not in adolescents with a hearing loss. This study aimed to investigate the presence of symptoms of anxiety disorders (ADs) in adolescents with hearing loss (HL) during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020. Methods In this cross sectional study, 56 adolescen...
Nordby, Emilie S. Gilje, Sigrid Jensen, Daniel A. Sørensen, Lin Stige, Signe H.
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Background There is growing evidence for the efficacy of group-based interventions for adults with ADHD. However, there is still a lack of research investigating how clients experience participating in such interventions. The aim of the current study was to explore how adults with ADHD experience participating in a group-based intervention (Goal Ma...
Lorant, Vincent Smith, Pierre Van den Broeck, Kris Nicaise, Pablo
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BMC Psychiatry
Background The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent suppression measures have had health and social implications for billions of individuals. The aim of this paper is to investigate the risk of psychological distress associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and suppression measures during the early days of the lockdown. We compared the level of psychologi...
Gårdvik, Kari Skulstad Torgersen, Terje Rygg, Marite Lydersen, Stian Indredavik, Marit Sæbø
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Background We aimed to examine psychosocial function, suicidality and school dropout in a clinical psychiatric population over a 3-year period from adolescence to young adulthood and explore associations with negative life events. Methods This study is part of the Health Survey in Department of Children and Youth, St. Olavs hospital, Norway. In the...
Antiporta, Daniel A. Cutipé, Yuri L. Mendoza, Maria Celentano, David D. Stuart, Elizabeth A. Bruni, Andrea
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Background Population health and well-being in Latin America, the current epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, has been severely affected during the past semester. Despite the growing evidence about the link between the pandemic, its control measures, and mental health worldwide, there is still no regional evidence of the potential mental health imp...
GOH, Chong Min Janrius SHAHWAN, Shazana LAU, Jue Hua ONG, Wei Jie TAN, Gregory Tee Hng SAMARI, Ellaisha KWOK, Kian Woon SUBRAMANIAM, Mythily CHONG, Siow Ann
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Background After decades of anti-stigma initiatives, the Advancing Research To Eliminate Mental Illness Stigma (ARTEMIS) intervention study is one of the first in Singapore to evaluate the effects of an anti-stigma intervention on attitudes towards depression in university students. Methods 390 university students from a local university in Singapo...
Seet, Vanessa Abdin, Edimansyah Asharani, P. V. Lee, Ying Ying Roystonn, Kumarasan Wang, Peizhi Devi, Fiona Cetty, Laxman Teh, Wen Lin Verma, Swapna
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Background Unhealthy behaviours such as physical inactivity, sedentary behaviour and smoking have been found to be more prevalent in people with psychiatric disorders than in the general population, leading to increased mortality risk. The present study seeks to identify correlates of physical activity and sedentary behaviour among psychiatric pati...
