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Filter by:Generalized anxiety disorder is a mental health disorder characterized by feelings of tension and worry with physical symptoms including increased blood pressure. Approximately 20% of US adults reported an anxiety disorder in the past year and an estimated 31% of US adults reported anxiety at some time in their lives. Anxiety can be experienced throughout one's life and levels of anxiety can increase with stressful life events, physical health conditions, and medication use. Chronic, untreated anxiety has been linked to headaches, dizziness, depression, high blood pressure, heart disease, digestive disorders, and a worsened immune system - greatly impacting one's overall quality of life (QOL). Anxiety and depression are highly comorbid, with approximately 50-60% of those with anxiety symptoms also experiencing depression symptoms. Experiencing these disorders and symptoms comorbidly may further worsen one's mental health and overall QOL. Untreated, chronic depression can heighten symptoms of depression leading to increased risk of heart disease, sleep disruptions, weight gain/loss, a weakened immune system, physical pains, and suicide attempts. Anxiety and depression are commonly treated using various psychotherapeutic techniques including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and acceptance and commitment therapy techniques administered by a licensed therapist. However, therapy has many barriers to treatment including insurance not covering treatments, overall treatment cost, unsure where to seek treatment/no access to a therapist, and therapy being unavailable and inconvenient due to scheduling during the workday. As such, app-based mental health tools have increased in popularity to improve access and affordability to effective mental health treatments. The purpose of the study is to examine the effectiveness of a guided anxiety/depression app-based program by Headspace, which uses CBT with mindfulness to improve anxiety and depression symptoms in a population with elevated baseline anxiety and/or depression. The study will employ a 2-arm app-based intervention involving 1 active intervention and a waitlist control for a duration of 3 weeks, followed by a 3-week follow-up assessment.
The present study is a randomized controlled trial that will evaluate the effect of combining two treatment components (i.e., cognitive restructuring and detached mindfulness) drawn from cognitive behavioral therapies (CBTs) that are often combined in clinical practice. However, knowledge about the effect of combining these treatment components is lacking. Therefore, this study aims to explore single, combined, and sequencing effects of these two treatment components in patients with depression and/or anxiety disorders. Furthermore, the study aims to explore possible demographic and clinical moderators of the effects to address the question of what works for whom.
Preoperative anxiety is characterized by subjective emotions such as irritability, irritability, sadness, and unhappiness. Studies have shown that preoperative anxiety negatively affects children both psychologically and physiologically. Preoperative anxiety occurs in 60-80% of children undergoing anesthesia and surgery and is associated with undesirable consequences such as nightmares, separation anxiety, eating disorders, negative behavioral changes such as increased fear of doctors, increased need for analgesics. The aim of this study is to evaluate the preoperative and pre-sedation anxiety levels in pediatric patients by explaining the peroperative process to the patients with drawings.
Study and evaluate the effectiveness of virtual reality in pain management.
The transdiagnostic approach argues that the common features are needed to be taken into account [e.g. distress intolerance (DI), intolerance of uncertainty (IU), worry)] underlying emotional disorders rather than evaluating them separately due to the fact that the dissection of anxiety disorders has increased with each emerging version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), in which the classification of anxiety disorders resulted in an increased number of intervention protocols for each disorder. This also caused an increase of comorbidity among anxiety disorders. Transdiagnostic approach offers a unified protocol (UP) for strengthening the common features, and thereby both preventing the emergence of emotional disorders or intervening the symptom severity of emotional disorders, which can be applied to different types of emotional disorders. The main aim of this study is to develop a UP which is planned to be applied as a group therapy. The UP will include interventions developing the levels of common transdiagnostic features (DI, IU and worry). The study's second aim is to investigate the effect of the developed UP on DI, IU and worry. The third one is to search the effect of the developed UP on symptom severity levels of anxiety disorders. Fourthly, this study will search if the levels of transdiagnostic common features (DI, IU and worry) will predict the levels of symptom severity of anxiety disorders'.
Mental health in the university population has become a common and serious problem within university institutions worldwide in recent years. Various meta-analyses and systematic reviews have shown worrying figures in the last five years. In the USA, it has been described in medical students that between 6.0% and 66.5% have depression, between 7.7% and 65.5% anxiety disorders, and between 12.2% and 96.7% present stress. In China, on the other hand, a study reported in 2016 that the prevalence of depression was 23.8%. In Latin America, a Brazilian article conducted on medical students shows a prevalence of depression at 30.6%, anxiety disorders at 32.9%, and stress at 49.9%. In Chile, there are very few studies that address the prevalence of mental health disorders and associated risk factors in the university population. The article published in 2014 by Baader et al. is one of the first records was carried out on a population of 800 students in 2008 at the Austral University of Chile, reporting a prevalence of 27% of depression and 5.3% of students who present a moderate to severe risk of suicide. During April and May 2019, the results of the "First National University Mental Health Survey" project were presented, a project led by the Catholic University of Temuco and sponsored by the National Research and Development Agency (ANID), carried out to 600 students from the Catholic University of Temuco, the University of Concepción and the University of Tarapacá. This project showed that 46% of the students presented depressive symptoms, 46% anxiety symptoms, and 53.5% stress symptoms. Furthermore, 29.7% presented the three symptoms simultaneously, and 5.1% of the students had suicidal thoughts at the time of the study. In a review of published studies on mental health in higher education students in Chile, a wide variability in the prevalence of psychological symptoms among students was identified. The findings showed a range of prevalence of psychological distress between 22.9% and 40.7%, of depressive symptoms between 16.5% and 38.8%, of anxious symptoms between 16.5% and 23.7%, of cannabis consumption in the last 12 months between 19.7% and 29.7%, and alcohol consumption in the previous year between 84.0% and 92.6%. The data obtained from the Mental Health Surveys of the University of the Andes, applied in the years 2020 and 2022 to undergraduate students, indicate variations in the prevalence of different symptoms and psychological risks. Specifically, the prevalence of depressive symptoms decreased from 37.1% to 27.84%, and that of anxious symptoms decreased slightly from 37.9% to 36.13%. A notable decrease was observed in stress, going from 54.6% to 12.9%. On the other hand, the prevalence of suicide risk experienced a less pronounced decrease, from 20% to 18.4%, remaining at a considerably high rate. Taking into account the above, mental health problems in the university population continue to be a public health problem that must be addressed preventively through the implementation of evidence-based programs. Objective: This study aims to determine the acceptability and feasibility of an online universal mental health prevention program for university students. It is also expected to reduce depressive and anxious symptoms and improve quality of life. Outcomes: Primary response measures: Acceptability Assessment, Feasibility Assessment. Secondary response measures are depression, anxiety, and quality of life. The Outcomes section provides more details on anxiety and qu. Expected results: The data collected will allow us to determine the acceptability and satisfaction of the participants with the intervention using a quantitative measure of its credibility and to explore its effects on the participants, considering the change in depressive and anxiety symptoms and quality of life before and after the intervention.
The study will be conducted using a randomized controlled method. Children with type 1 diabetes who are admitted to the Pediatric Endocrinology Service will be divided into two groups by randomization method. Following randomization, children in the experimental group will play a therapeutic game before their subcutaneous insulin treatment. In the subcutaneous insulin treatment of the children in the control group, the routine practice of the clinic will be applied. Anxiety and fear levels of all children in the experimental and control groups will be evaluated before and after subcutaneous insulin treatment.
It was aimed to examine the effect of the hand holding method applied during intramuscular injection on pain and anxiety.
It was planned as a randomized controlled study to determine the effect of the modified simulation model on self-efficacy, anxiety and academic motivation in episiotomy training. It will be held online with students from the midwifery department of Osmaniye Korkut Ata University.
Social anxiety (SA) is a highly prevalent mental health concern, thought to disproportionately affect youth with recent international estimates of more than 30% of individuals reporting clinically elevated symptoms. Despite the prevalence of SA, as few as one in five individuals receive care, due to limited access to evidence-based treatments. Additionally there has been a notable increase in social anxiety since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. This proposal will use iExposure to develop a personalized mechanism-focused approach to optimizing treatment response for individuals with social anxiety by testing standard iExposure against two augmentations that incorporate distinct attention mechanisms (attention guidance and attention control).