Smoking Related to Anxiety and Depression in Greek Medical Staff

We assessed the relation of anxiety and depression to smoking behavior in a sample of 80 physicians and surgeons, using the Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Scale and the Beck Depression Inventory. 27 doctors were nonsmokers, 14 were former smokers, and 39 were current smokers. Current smokers showed significantly higher Anxiety and Depression scores compared to nonsmokers and former smokers, while the latter presented significantly lower Anxiety scores than nonsmokers. In current smokers, the daily quota of cigarettes was not correlated with Anxiety or Depression scores. From our results we can hypothesize that, among medical staff, smoking behavior is more anxiery-related than depression-related. In conclusion, we believe that interventions such as stress management techniques could be effective in lessening Anxiety and diminishing the need for relief searched for in smoking.

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Death, Anxiety, and Depression: A Comparison between Egyptian, Kuwaiti, and Lebanese Undergraduates

OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying ◽

10.2190/cnp8-bn0u-hb5x-13tg ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 45 (3) ◽

pp. 277-287 ◽

Cited By ~ 36

Author(s):

Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek

Keyword(s):

Beck Depression Inventory ◽

Trait Anxiety ◽

Death Anxiety ◽

Depression Scale ◽

Anxiety Scale ◽

Anxiety And Depression ◽

State Trait Anxiety Inventory ◽

Three Samples ◽

The Mean ◽

Death Depression

Three samples of male and female undergraduates were recruited from Egypt ( N=208), Kuwait ( N=215), and Lebanon ( N=228). The Death Anxiety Scale, Death Depression Scale, Trait Anxiety Scale of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, and the Beck Depression Inventory were administered to participants in small group sessions in each country. Alpha reliabilities of the four scales in the three nations ranged from almost satisfactory to high levels. In death anxiety, Lebanese subjects had significantly the lowest mean score. As for death depression in males, Kuwaitis attained the highest mean score, while the Lebanese had the lowest. In females, Egyptians and Kuwaitis had the highest mean death depression scores, while the Lebanese attained the lowest. Regarding the trait anxiety, female Egyptians had the highest mean score, while the Lebanese attained the lowest. The differences between the mean scores of the three nations in the Beck Depression Inventory were not statistically significant. By and large, the gender differences were significant denoting the higher mean scores of females than their male counterparts.

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Level of Anxiety and Depression among Postgraduate Psychology Students

International Journal of Indian Psychology ◽

10.25215/0202.058 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Taniya Ahuja ◽

Dr.Arun Kumar

Keyword(s):

Beck Depression Inventory ◽

Clinical Evaluation ◽

Significant Positive Correlation ◽

Psychology Students ◽

Anxiety Scale ◽

Anxiety And Depression ◽

Social Drinkers ◽

Somatic Anxiety ◽

Positive Correlation ◽

Hamilton Anxiety Scale

The authors examine the level of Anxiety and Depression among Postgraduate Psychology Students. The study was conducted using Hamilton Anxiety Scale in Clinical Evaluation (HAM – A) and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). The results elicit that the level of Anxiety is high as compared with the level of Depression. Among Social Drinkers, the level of Depression was found to be high and among Non – Social Drinkers the level of Anxiety was found to be high. The results elicits a significant positive correlation between Anxiety and Depression. From the HAM – A tool, the domains of Anxiety were also studied, viz., Psychic Anxiety and Somatic Anxiety, which infers in the study that the level of Psychic Anxiety is high as compared to Somatic Anxiety in both the groups.

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Métodos de rastreamento da ansiedade e depressão em estudantes universitários: revisão integrativa

Saúde Coletiva (Barueri) ◽

10.36489/saudecoletiva.2021v11i60p4686-4695 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (60) ◽

pp. 4686-4695

Author(s):

Maira Gabriela Paetzold ◽

Ligiane De Lourdes Silva ◽

Márcia Regina Simões

Keyword(s):

Beck Depression Inventory ◽

Trait Anxiety ◽

Depression Scale ◽

Beck Anxiety Inventory ◽

Anxiety And Depression ◽

State Trait Anxiety Inventory ◽

Hospital Anxiety ◽

Stress Scale

Objetivo: A presente pesquisa teve como objetivo realizar uma revisão integrativa da literatura de instrumentos utilizados no rastreamento de depressão, ansiedade e misto (ambos) em amostras de estudantes de graduação. Método: a pesquisa ocorreu na base de dados PubMed, de 2009 até 2019. Resultados: Inicialmente foram encontrados 895 artigos, dos quais 345 foram incluídos após a leitura dos títulos e resumos; destes, 316 foram recuperados e posteriormente 176 foram excluídos após a leitura na íntegra, totalizando 140 artigos. Conclusão: Os instrumentos mais utilizados foram: a) Ansiedade: Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) (n=19) e State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) (n=17); b) Depressão: Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) (n=35); e c) Misto: Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21) (n=40) e Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) (n=19). O curso mais avaliado foi Medicina e os países com mais produções de artigos foram China (n=24) e Estados Unidos (n=20). O Brasil publicou apenas 7 artigos.

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Death, Anxiety, and Depression in Lebanese Undergraduates

OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying ◽

10.2190/cn5k-xf4c-2npg-17e0 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 37 (4) ◽

pp. 289-302 ◽

Cited By ~ 33

Author(s):

Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek

Keyword(s):

Beck Depression Inventory ◽

Trait Anxiety ◽

Death Anxiety ◽

Depression Scale ◽

Anxiety And Depression ◽

Factorial Structure ◽

Neurotic Disorder ◽

General Anxiety ◽

Anxiety Trait ◽

Psychometric Instruments

A Lebanese sample of undergraduates ( n = 228) responded to the Death Anxiety Scale (DAS), Death Depression Scale (DDS), general anxiety (Trait Anxiety; STAI-T), and general depression (Beck Depression Inventory; BDI). Administration of the psychometric instruments was carried out in March 1991, after the cessation of the civil war in Lebanon, which had lasted for sixteen years. Alpha reliabilities were either acceptable or high. The DDS has a meaningful factorial structure. All of the intercorrelations ( r) between the four scales were statistically significant Foremost among them are the following: DAS and DDS r = .709, STAI-T and BDI r = .486, DAS and STAI-T r = .198, DDS and BDI r = .215. Two orthogonal factors were extracted: death distress and general neurotic disorder. The main results are in keeping with previous results on Egyptian and U.S. participants. There is a need to test the differences of the total scores of the aforementioned four scales between the Egyptian and Lebanese samples.

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Dyadic adjustment in parents of schizophrenics

European Psychiatry ◽

10.1016/s0924-9338(03)00063-4 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 18 (5) ◽

pp. 233-240 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Alberto Espina ◽

Asunción Ortego ◽

Iñigo Ochoa de Alda ◽

Pilar González

Keyword(s):

Beck Depression Inventory ◽

Married Couples ◽

Anxiety Scale ◽

Dyadic Adjustment ◽

The Self ◽

Anxiety And Depression ◽

Control Groups ◽

Dyadic Adjustment Scale ◽

The Poor ◽

Normal Controls

AbstractObjectiveTo study the dyadic adjustment in couples with a schizophrenic offspring.Method140 married couples, 67 with a children with schizophrenia, and two control groups: 41 couples without pathology and 32 couples with pathology, were assessed with the Dyadic Adjustment Scale, the Beck Depression Inventory and the Self-Rating Anxiety Scale.ResultsThe couples with a schizophrenic offspring evidenced significantly worse dyadic adjustment than did the normal controls, especially low consensus and cohesion in husbands, and low cohesion and satisfaction in wives. Anxiety and depression in mothers of schizophrenics is significantly higher than in mothers of controls.DiscussionThese findings suggest that the poor dyadic adjustment of the parents with a schizophrenic offspring could be an effect of the burden.ConclusionThe treatment on the schizophrenia should be supplemented by interventions aimed at parents’ dyadic adjustment, and mothers’ anxiety and depression, so that they can be in better conditions to help their child.

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Beck Anxiety Inventory deutsch – Ein reliables, valides und praxisgeeignetes Instrument zur Messung klinischer Angst

PPmP - Psychotherapie · Psychosomatik · Medizinische Psychologie ◽

10.1055/s-0043-122941 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 68 (03/04) ◽

pp. 118-125 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Edgar Geissner ◽

Anne Huetteroth

Keyword(s):

Beck Depression Inventory ◽

Trait Anxiety ◽

Anxiety Scale ◽

Beck Anxiety Inventory ◽

Symptom Checklist ◽

State Trait Anxiety Inventory ◽

Hamilton Anxiety Scale ◽

Hamilton Anxiety

ZusammenfassungAußer dem Manual für die deutsche Version des Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) liegen für den deutschen Sprachraum keine Berichte zu den psychometrischen Eigenschaften des Verfahrens und dessen Tauglichkeit im klinischen Einsatz vor. Unser Anliegen bestand daher in der unabhängigen psychometrischen Überprüfung nebst Untersuchung als praxisgeeignetes klinisches Instrument. Die vorliegende Studie wurde mit stationären Angstpatienten einer psychosomatischen Klinik an 3 Stichproben – n=145, n=90, n=174 – durchgeführt. Zum Einsatz kam neben dem BAI die Hamilton Anxiety Scale (HamA) als Fremdratingverfahren, das State-Trait-Anxiety Inventory (STAI), die Angstskalen 5 und 7 der Symptom Checklist 90 (SCL-90) als konvergente Maße, Motivationsskalen (Handlungs- vs. Lageorientierung, die Skala Leistungsorientierung des Freiburger Persönlichkeits Inventars FPI) als divergente Maße sowie das Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II) und ein Maß zur Therapiezielerreichung. Patienten wurden bei Aufnahme und bei Entlassung untersucht, ferner katamnestisch nach 6 Monaten. Für Unterstichproben lagen auch Daten zum Anmeldezeitpunkt vor, mithilfe derer der unspezifische Hoffnung-auf-Erfolg Effekt geprüft wurde. Alle Patienten erhielten eine ca. 6wöchige verhaltenstherapeutisch orientierte Therapie. Das deutsche BAI wird unidimensional eingesetzt, es ist ein homogenes, reliables (Retest nach 3 Tagen) Verfahren mit sehr guten Itemeigenschaften. Hinweise für eine gute konvergente bzw. divergente Validität liegen vor; allerdings wurden mittelhohe Zusammenhänge zwischen BAI und BDI II ermittelt. Krankheitsgruppen erzielten klar unterschiedliche Werte. Das Verfahren ist veränderungssensitiv für direkte therapeutische wie auch für unspezifische Effekte. Zielerreichungsratings gehen in charakteristischer Weise einher mit BAI-Werten. Somit ist das BAI ein psychometrisch gut abgesichertes, dabei kurzes und patientenfreundliches Verfahren für den aussagefähigen Einsatz in Klinik und Therapie.

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Analysis of Smoking Behavior and Stress Management in Hypertension Sufferers of Productive Age at Dr. Moedjito Dwidjosiswoyo Hospital Jombang

JOURNAL FOR QUALITY IN PUBLIC HEALTH ◽

10.30994/jqph.v4i2.188 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 293-302

Author(s):

Eval Braco Athatur ◽

Sandu Siyoto ◽

Bambang Pardjianto

Keyword(s):

Blood Pressure ◽

Stress Management ◽

Smoking Behavior ◽

Simple Random Sampling ◽

Sympathetic Nerves ◽

Salt Consumption ◽

City Community ◽

Study Population ◽

As Stress ◽

Pressure Stress

The high incidence of hypertension is caused by various causes including the lifestyle of the city community such as obesity, excessive salt consumption, lack of exercise, smoking. In addition, a person's lifestyle psychic condition such as stress can also affect the increase in blood pressure. Stress increases the activity of sympathetic nerves, thus raising blood pressure erratically. The purpose of the study was to analyze smoking behavior and stress management of hypertension sufferers of productive age. The design of this research is analytics with a crossectional approach. The variables of this study are smoking behavior and stress management as independent variables as well as blood pressure as dependent variables. The study population of patients with hypertension hospital dr. Moerdjito Jombang as many as 142 patients in March 2020. Samples were taken with simple random sampling techniques as many as 105 respondents. The data was collected by questionnaire instrument and processed using editing, coding, scoring and tabulating and tested with spearman rho test. This suggests that smoking behavior and stress management in sufferers may affect

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Guilty Pleasure No More

Journal of Media Psychology Theories Methods and Applications ◽

10.1027/1864-1105/a000223 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 29 (3) ◽

pp. 126-136 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Robin L. Nabi ◽

Debora Pérez Torres ◽

Abby Prestin

Keyword(s):

Stress Management ◽

Perceived Stress ◽

Media Use ◽

Well Being ◽

Breast Cancer Patients ◽

Positive Role ◽

Individual Difference Variables ◽

Relative Value ◽

Management Techniques ◽

Managing Stress

Abstract. Despite the substantial attention paid to stress management in the extant coping literature, media use has been surprisingly overlooked as a strategy worthy of close examination. Although media scholars have suggested media use may be driven by a need to relax, related research has been sporadic and, until recently, disconnected from the larger conversation about stress management. The present research aimed to determine the relative value of media use within the broader range of coping strategies. Based on surveys of both students and breast cancer patients, media use emerged as one of the most frequently selected strategies for managing stress across a range of personality and individual difference variables. Further, heavier television consumers and those with higher perceived stress were also more likely to use media for coping purposes. Finally, those who choose media for stress management reported it to be an effective tool, although perhaps not as effective as other popular strategies. This research not only documents the centrality of media use in the corpus of stress management techniques, thus highlighting the value of academic inquiry into media-based coping, but it also offers evidence supporting the positive role media use can play in promoting psychological well-being.

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