Background Major depressive disorder is characterized by a depressed mood or feeling of
sadness, loss of interest or pleasure in everyday activities. Depressed individuals have a …

Psychological distress is widely used as an indicator of the mental health of the population
in public health, in population surveys and in epidemiological studies and, as an outcome, in …

Background Health care personnel (HCP) who demonstrated close contact with Corona
virus disease (COVID-19) patients might experience a higher risk of infection and …

Medical education is perceived as being stressful, and a high level of stress may have a
negative effect on cognitive functioning and learning of students in a medical school. This …

Abstract Background In 2007 Australia experienced its first outbreak of highly infectious
equine influenza. Government disease control measures were put in place to control …

Introduction: The subject of chronic stress and ways of dealing with it are very broad. The
aim of this study was to analyze stress and anxiety and their influence on suicidal thinking …

Background: Anxiety, depression and fatigue are commonly reported by persons with
multiple sclerosis (PwMS). Objectives: We estimated the prevalence of each factor in a …

Objective: To present Australian normative data on the ten-item Kessler Psychological
Distress Scale (K10). Method: Analysis of cross-sectional data from the 2007 Australian …

We show that psychological well-being in adulthood varies with circumstance in early life.
Combining a time series of real producer prices of cocoa with a nationally representative …

Abstract Purpose The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) is widely used in both
research and clinical contexts. However, UK normative data from HADS remain limited. In …