OBJECTIVETo carry out a preliminary study on the emotional problems and parenting locus of control among children with anxiety disorders.

METHODSA total of 110 children with simple anxiety disorders (AD group) and 113 normal children (control group) from September to December 2005 were enrolled. Children were asked to complete the Depression Self-Rating Scale for Children (DSRSC), the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED), and the Parenting Locus of Control Scale (PLOC).A total of 197 valid scales were returned.

RESULTSThe scores of somatic, generalized anxiety, separation anxiety, social phobia anxiety, school phobia anxiety, total anxiety, and total depression were all higher in the AD group than in the control group (P<0.01). The score of "education effects" for parents was significantly higher in the AD group than that in the control group (P<0.01).

CONCLUSIONSChildren with anxiety disorders tend to have more emotional problems and poorer parental education effects.

Adolescent ; Affective Symptoms ; etiology ; Anxiety Disorders ; psychology ; Child ; Female ; Humans ; Internal-External Control ; Male ; Parenting

Through document analysis, high trait anger as the hazard factor for the occurrence of many diseases was proposed. The high trait anger should be the main personality characteristics and important pathogenic condition for anger induced diseases. It is expected to find out more effective treatment and prevention pathways for anger induced diseases.
Affective Symptoms ; etiology ; psychology ; Anger ; Humans ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; methods ; Personality ; Risk Factors

OBJECTIVEThis study was to investigate the somatic symptoms and sychological specialties in trauma-deformed patients during tissue expansion.

METHODSUsing our own questionnaires, fifty-seven patients were solicited to answer the questionnaires in three different treatment periods.

RESULTSIt was found that local distension, pain and tickle were the common symptoms during expansion, while distension was most specific (P < 0.01). Pain and tickle also happened before implanting and after taking out of the expander. The patients often had high expectation toward tissue expansion. They felt nervous and anxious (P < 0.01) during expansion. Their emotion and healthy self-evaluation changed obviously in different treatment periods (P < 0.01).

CONCLUSIONLocal distension is the most specific symptom during tissue expansion. Nervousness and anxiety are common in patients at that time. Their emotion change from depression to happy at first, and then from happy to slight depression.

Adolescent ; Adult ; Affective Symptoms ; etiology ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Tissue Expansion ; adverse effects ; psychology ; Wounds and Injuries ; surgery

The aim of this study was to evaluate anxiety, depression, alexithymia, and general psychological symptoms in the mothers of autistic children in comparison with those in the mothers of mentally retarded children. Forty mothers of autistic children and 38 mothers of mentally retarded children were included in the study. After a clinical interview, psychometric tests were performed for depression, anxiety, alexithymia, and Symptom Distress Check List (SCL-90) for general psychological symptoms. Non-depression rates was 27.5% in the mothers of autistic children whereas the rate was 55.3% in the mothers of mentally retarded children. There was no difference regarding anxiety and alexithymia between the two groups. The psychopathology in the mothers of autistic children was more frequent than in those of mentally retarded children in all sub-scales of SCL-90 (somatization obsessive-compulsive, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, anger-hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid thought, psychotism, and extra scale). The mothers of autistic children experienced more psychological distress than those of mentally retarded children. Our findings indicates that the assessment of autistic and mentally retarded children should include psychological assessment of their mothers.
Adult ; Affective Symptoms/etiology ; Anxiety/etiology ; Autistic Disorder/*psychology ; Child ; Child, Preschool ; Cross-Sectional Studies ; Depression/etiology ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Mental Retardation/*psychology ; *Mother-Child Relations ; Psychopathology ; Turkey

The purpose of this study was to investigate the psychological characteristics of mothers of children with disabilities. This study was performed under the hypotheses that, at the initial diagnosis of the children's disabilities, (1) the mothers suffered from serious psychological distress; (2) the more severe the child's disability was, the more serious the mother's psychological distress was; and that (3) the mother's psychological distress might be resolved within 8 weeks of rehabilitational interventions. The results were as follows: 1) mothers of children with disabilities showed significant (p<0.05) somatization, depression, anxiety, hostility, and phobic anxiety more so than the control group; 2) there was no significant difference in T scores of 9 dimensions of the Symptom Checklist-90-Revision (SCL-90-R) of the mothers at the initial diagnosis of children's disabilities according to severity of child's disability; 3) there was no significant difference in T scores of 9 dimensions of SCL-90-R in mothers of children with disabilities between at initial evaluation and after 8 weeks of rehabilitational interventions. In conclusion, : 1) mothers of children with disabilities suffered from serious psychological distress at the initial diagnosis of their child's disability; 2) the severity of the child's disability had little influence on the degree of the mother's initial psychological distress; 3) this distress did not resolve with only 8 weeks of rehabilitational interventions. Therefore, effective rehabilitational programs should provide sufficient opportunities for repeated follow-up interviews which offer not only adequate information on the children's disabilities but also psychological support for the mothers.
Adult ; Affective Symptoms/etiology/psychology ; *Child ; Child, Preschool ; Developmental Disabilities/diagnosis/rehabilitation ; *Disabled Persons/rehabilitation ; Female ; Human ; Infant ; Male ; Mothers/*psychology ; Time Factors

Affective Symptoms ; drug therapy ; etiology ; Female ; Fluoxetine ; therapeutic use ; Humans ; MELAS Syndrome ; complications ; psychology ; Middle Aged ; Serotonin Uptake Inhibitors ; therapeutic use ; Stroke ; complications ; psychology

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the emotional state and related factors in patients with lymphedema. METHODS: The subjects of this study consisted of 95 patients with lymphedema at 8 hospitals in Busan and Seoul. Data was collected by a self-administered questionnaire between March 2001 to December 2001. Data was analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficient, and stepwise multiple regression using SPSS Win 12.0. RESULTS: The mean score of the emotional state of the subjects was 3.06; of their physical symptoms, 1.84; of their Activities of Daily Living(ADLs), 2.30; and of their social activities, 3.67. The emotional states of lymphedema patients correlated with their physical symptoms, their ADLs, and their social activities. The Factor influencing the emotional state of the subjects was social activities. CONCLUSION: These results suggest that a negative emotional state is very common in patients with lymphedema, to which appropriate attention should be given. Rehabilitation programs must be implemented to improve lymphedema patients' emotional state, physical symptoms, ADLs, and social activities.
Activities of Daily Living ; Affective Symptoms ; Aged ; Breast Neoplasms/complications/diagnosis/psychology ; *Emotions ; Female ; Humans ; Lymphedema/diagnosis/etiology/*psychology ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Questionnaires ; Sickness Impact Profile ; Social Behavior ; Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/complications/diagnosis/psychology