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Religiousness is associated with lower levels of anxiety, but not depression, in medical and nursing students

SUMMARY OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the association between religious and spiritual beliefs, anxiety and depression in medical and nursing students. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was carried out with medical and nursing students from a Brazilian university. Students were randomly selected and filled out...

The Farsi translation, reliability and validity of the Death Concern Scale

Abstract Introduction: Death concern is a conscious contemplation of the reality of death combined with a negative evaluation of that reality. The Death Concern Scale (DCS) is related to thinking, and death fear or anxiety about death. The aim of the present study was to develop a Farsi version of the D...

Borderline personality disorder: an adaptation of the Taiwan short version of the screening inventory into Brazilian Portuguese

Abstract Objective The current study presents the translation and adaptation of the 20-item Taiwan version of the Borderline Personality Inventory (BPI) into Brazilian Portuguese (BPI-P). Methods After translation and back-translation, the Brazilian Portuguese version was administered to three sample...

Analyzing the neuropsychological characteristics and changes in serum markers of patients with chronic cerebral circulation insufficiency

Summary Objective: To investigate the neuropsychological characteristics and changes in CRP, S100B, MBP, HSP-7, and NSE in serum. Method: Sixty-six (66) patients treated in our hospital as CCCI group were chosen for our study, and 90 patients with depression were selected as the depression group. The p...

Ansiedade no pré-operatório de cirurgias cardíacas: como a enfermagem pode atuar?

Objetivo: Discutir por meio da literatura sobre ansiedade no pré-operatório de cirurgias cardíacas e a importância da enfermagem neste processo. Método: Trata-se de uma revisão da literatura, onde foi realizado buscas online nas bases de dados Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), Base de ...

Anxiety in Late Life: The Experience of Jamaican Urban Community Dwelling Older Adults

West Indian med. j; 67 (spe), 2018
ABSTRACT Objective: This study evaluated Jamaican community dwelling older adults' levels of anxiety and the predictors of such anxiety. Methods: For this cross-sectional study, participants aged 65 years and over were selected from urban lower-middle and working-class communities. Data collection tool...

Cross-cultural adaptation of the Sport Anxiety Scale-2 (SAS-2) for the Brazilian context

Abstract Objective To present the process of cross-cultural adaptation of the Sport Anxiety Scale-2 (SAS-2) for the Brazilian context. Method The following stages were used: translation into Brazilian Portuguese by independent translators, elaboration of a synthesis version, back-translation, evaluatio...

Trait vs. state anxiety in different threatening situations

Abstract Objective Anxiety as a uni- or multidimensional construct has been under discussion. The unidimensional approach assumes that there is a general trait anxiety, which predisposes the individuals to increases in state anxiety in various threatening situations. In this case, there should be a cor...

The relationship between preoperative anxiety levels and vasovagal incidents during the administration of spinal anesthesia

Rev. bras. anestesiol; 67 (4), 2017
Abstract Background: It was aimed to investigate the relationship between preoperative anxiety and vasovagal symptoms observed during the administration of spinal anesthesia in patients undergoing surgery in the perianal and inguinal regions. Methods: The study included patients with planned surgery fo...

Validation of the Brazilian Portuguese version of the Premenstrual Symptoms Screening Tool (PSST) and association of PSST scores with health-related quality of life

Objective: To develop and validate a Brazilian Portuguese version of the Premenstrual Symptoms Screening Tool (PSST), a questionnaire used for the screening of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and of the most severe form of PMS, premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). The PSST also rates the impact of premens...