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Obesity and psychological distress
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2023 The relationship between high body weight and mental health has been studied for several decades. Improvements in the quality of epidemiological, mechanistic and psychological research have brought greater consistency to our understanding of the links.
Andrew Steptoe, Philipp Frank
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Culture and psychological distress [PDF]
Paidéia (Ribeirão Preto), 2002 Examining the influence of cultural factors on psychological distress, relative to other (e.g. social and psychological) influences, has been difficult due to the incomplete development of a theory of culture that leads to the reliable and valid measurement of cultural factors in such a way that these can be incorporated into multivariate models.
Dressler, William W. +2 more
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Psychological Distress and Problem Drinking [PDF]
Health Economics, 2015 AbstractWe examine the influence of harmful alcohol use on mental health using a flexible two‐step instrumental variables approach and household survey data from nine countries of the former Soviet Union. Using alcohol advertisements to instrument for alcohol, we show that problem drinking has a large detrimental effect on psychological distress, with ...
Mentzakis, Emmanouil +3 more
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Epidemiology of Psychological Distress [PDF]
, 2012 Aline Drapeau1,2,3, Alain Marchand4,5 and Dominic Beaulieu-Prevost6 1Departement de psychiatrie – Universite de Montreal 2Centre de recherche Fernand-Seguin – Hopital Louis. H. Lafontaine 3Departement de medecine sociale et preventive – Universite de Montreal 4Ecole de relations industrielles – Universite de Montreal 5Institut de recherche en sante ...
Alain Marchand +2 more
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Psilocybin, psychological distress, and suicidality [PDF]
Journal of Psychopharmacology, 2015 Hendricks et al. (2015) found that having ever used any classic psychedelic substance—namely, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), ayahuasca, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), mescaline, peyote or San Pedro, or psilocybin—was associated with a significantly reduced likelihood of past month psychological distress (weighted OR = .81 (.72–.91)), past year suicidal ...
Roland R. Griffiths +2 more
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Psychological Distress on Mualaf
Proceedings Series on Social Sciences & Humanities, 2021 Psychological distress is a harmful condition that can affect individuals directly or indirectly over time and affect physical health conditions and mental conditions. This study aims to determine the description of psychological distress in converts.
Dyah Astorini Wulandari +1 more
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Are patients with COPD psychologically distressed? [PDF]
European Respiratory Journal, 2005 This study was designed to assess the level of psychological distress in a heterogeneous group of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and compare them with the general population and psychiatric outpatients.A total of 118 patients with COPD, a random sample of 500 subjects from the general population and 500 psychiatric ...
C.P. van Schayck +3 more
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Couple Violence and Psychological Distress [PDF]
Canadian Journal of Public Health, 1998 Except for anecdotal data, empirical research on the psychological well-being of abused men is scarce. This paper compares the mental health of non-victims with victims of physical and psychological violence among 562 Calgary couples. Physical and psychological violence were assessed by two subscales of the Conflict Tactics Scales and psychological ...
Merlin B. Brinkerhoff +2 more
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Hypertension Awareness and Psychological Distress [PDF]
Hypertension, 2010 There is conflicting evidence regarding the association of hypertension with psychological distress, such as anxiety and depressive symptoms. The association may be because of a direct effect of the raised blood pressure, adverse effects of treatment, or the consequences of labeling.
G. David Batty +3 more
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Evaluating psychological distress data [PDF]
International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 2016 AbstractKessler k6 psychological distress scores are analyzed using a count model and item response theory (IRT) models are applied to the items which produce the k6 score and generate an alternative distress score, θ*. Other ways of utilizing the constituent items are also examined.
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