Anxiety, Depression, and Somatization in Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Peter Manu in The Psychopathology of Functional Somatic Syndromes, 2020
The psychometric data indicated that the severity of current depressive symptomatology was similar in the two groups (mean score on Beck Depression Inventory 7.3 versus 4.2). On the other hand, patients with irritable bowel syndrome had significantly higher scores on somatic perceptions and somatization, anxiety, interpersonal sensitivity, paranoia, and psychoticism, leading to a substantial difference in the global severity of their psychological distress (p < 0.005). The authors felt that patients with irritable bowel show evidence of psychological distress with negative affectivity and multiple medically unexplained symptoms occurring on the background of past psychiatric illness. The hypothesis that their symptoms were the somatic manifestations of a current psychiatric condition was not confirmed.
Organic Chemicals
William J. Rea, Kalpana D. Patel in Reversibility of Chronic Disease and Hypersensitivity, Volume 4, 2017
There were 133 solvent-exposed subjects (industrial painters) and 78 controls (drywall/tapers, glazers, carpenters) recruited for the study that included a screening medical evaluation; a structured psychiatric interview Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) for DSM-IV170; cognitive and sensory testing; assessment of lifetime use of alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine; and lifetime solvent exposure history. A subgroup of these subjects volunteered to participate in the fMRI study by study (N = 46 solvent-exposed, N = 39 controls). There were no females among the participants. Solvent-exposed workers had at least 10 years employment in their respective trades. Control subjects who reported solvent exposure were excluded (N = 4). After screening for psychiatric conditions, current medication use, MRI compatibility, incidental findings, ability to perform the N-Back task, and excessive motion during the scans, 19 workers exposed to solvents and 12 controls were eliminated from further analysis. For the depression assessment, they used the Beck Depression Inventory-II Questionnaire, a widely used depression scale with excellent reliability.171
The effects of epilepsy and its treatments on affect and emotion
Howard J. Rosen, Robert W. Levenson in Neurocase, 2020
The patient’s evaluation included video-EEG telemetry and a high-resolution MRI study. The telemetry demonstrated evidence of right temporal lobe seizures. The MRI is consistent with right-sided mesial temporal sclerosis. In addition, the patient has had extensive neuropsychological testing. This reveals superior verbal skills with nonverbal skills in the low range, demonstrating a significant discrepancy in performances. His Beck Depression Inventory score was 24 (moderate to severe depression), and he endorsed feelings of sadness, pessimism, loss of pleasure, and self-dislike. He also endorses significant anxiety. His personality inventory revealed no evidence of psychopathology.
Partial Efficacy of Vipassana Mindfulness Approach in Alcohol-Dependent Persons
Published in Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, 2018
Nualnong Wongtongkam, Seearoon Lampoo, Puthawan Choocherd, Suwanna Chiangkuntod
The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI; Beck, Steer, & Brown, 1996) contained 21 items measuring the severity of respondents’ feelings in the past week, including sadness, pessimism, sense of failure, self-dissatisfaction, guilt, punishment, self-dislike, self-accusations, suicidal thoughts, crying, social withdrawal, indecisiveness, body image changes, irritability, work difficulty, insomnia, fatigability, loss of appetite, weight loss, somatic preoccupation, and loss of libido. Individual items were scored from 0 to 3. Items 1 to 10 and 12 to 14 were summed to determine cognitive/affective symptoms while the somatic symptom score was derived from the sum of Item 11 and Items 15 to 21. Total sum scores were also computed, with scores of 21 or greater indicating elevated depressive symptoms in the general population (Beck, Brown, Steer, Eidelson, & Riskind, 1987). The internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha) was 0.892.
Sexual dysfunction in women with human papilloma virus infection in the Turkish population
Published in Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2019
Ramazan Mercan, Sibel Mercan, Birsen Durmaz, Haydar Sur, Can Misel Kilciksiz, Anil Safak Kacar, Zuhal Apaydin, Cem Ayhan, Baris Ata
The sexual function scores of the participants are summarised in Table 2. All of the ASEX subset scores including sexual desire, arousal, genital response (lubrication), orgasmic experience and satisfaction were significantly higher in the study group compared to the control group (p ≤ .05). The average scores for the Beck Depression Inventory were 8 and 5 in the study and control groups, respectively, and the difference is significant (p = .002). The difference between the scores of these two groups on the Beck Anxiety Inventory was not significant (p = .052). In order to exclude the effects of depression on ASEX scores, we compared all cases for ASEX total scores and ASEX sub scores. The effects of depression were found to be significant on the orgasm and satisfaction sub scores (p ≤ .007).
Memory deficits in patients with major depression: yes, they are trying hard enough!
Published in Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, 2020
Thomas Beblo, Martin Driessen, Lorenz Dehn
As shown in Table 1, both groups were comparable with respect to basic demographic variables (age, sex, basic school education). The value in the Beck Depression Inventory indicates a serious severity of depressive symptoms in the patient group (m = 25.7) and the absence of depressive symptoms in the HC group. Comorbid psychiatric diagnoses were present in eleven patients. All of these diagnoses were exclusively anxiety disorders (Table 1). Patients with comorbidity did not differ significantly from patients without comorbidity with respect to the target variables of this study, i.e. depression, motivation and memory performance (all p >.10). In addition, almost all patients (n = 20/91%) were medicated with antidepressants (for details see Table 1).
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