A5077589237- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
- Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Spectroscopy and Laser Applications
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
- Cancer survivorship and care
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Educational and Social Studies
- Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies
University of Padua
2013-2025
Istituto Oncologico Veneto
2016
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
2011
Virtual Reality Environments (VREs) are widely deployed in mental health treatments, often associated with relaxation techniques. The personalization of natural VR-based scenarios is a key element that can further facilitate users’ sense presence and relaxation. This study explored the role VREs’ user experience an environment supporting relaxation, by deploying mixed methods. Methods: A non-clinical sample 20 individuals participated exposure to supportive body-scan-guided VRE. In...
Orthorexia Nervosa (ON) is characterised by excessive attention to a dietary regimen perceived as healthy. A critical factor in the distinction between ON and other eating disorders (EDs) dichotomy of quality-versus-quantity food intake. We investigated whether specific types diet or dieting frequency are associated with orthorexic features, explored overlap EDs symptoms, examined which constructs predictive after 6 months.A total 1075 students (75.1% female, mean age 20.9) completed set...
Abstract Purpose Orthorexia Nervosa (ON) exhibits specific features that may overlap with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Perfectionism Striving (PS), and Concern (PC). While previous literature has shown predictiveness in different characteristics of ON, this study aimed to determine if PS, PC OCD symptoms could predict ON dimensions at-risk populations using Bayesian models. Method The enrolled 622 individuals from three populations: people who were following treatment for an Eating...
Orthorexia Nervosa is characterized by specific behaviors frequently related to other psychopathological conditions, such as Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Eating Disorders (EDs). Whereas ON can mainly be described an excessive concern regarding healthy food, the study's principal aim was investigate if could considered a condition differentiated from worry, than OCD, EDs, perfectionism, anxiety, depression. To achieve these aims, 302 individuals general population were enrolled...
A relation between Orthorexia Nervosa (ON) and increased frequency of physical activity has been put in evidence by recent studies. It is well known that intense exercises are typically related to eating disorders, but its relationship with ON still a subject debate. Other transdiagnostic features could be necessary conceptualize understand ON; this way, low self-esteem behavior not extensively investigated ON, and, date, data so heterogeneous they do allow us if psychological feature...
Prospective studies on the mental health of university students highlighted a major concern. Specifically, young adults in academia are affected by markedly worse status than their peers or other vocations. This situation predisposes to exacerbated disability-adjusted life-years.We enroled 1,388 at baseline, 557 whom completed follow-up after 6 months, incorporating demographic information and self-report questionnaires depressive, anxiety obsessive-compulsive symptoms. We applied multiple...
Psychological stress and coping strategies in staff working with AIDS cancer patients were assessed using self-report methods. The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), Coping Orientations to Problems Experiences (COPE), State-Trait Anxiety (STAI) Depression Questionnaire (DQ) completed by from 20 hospitals of North-Center Italy, including 268 doctors nurses people 260 oncology. Few significant differences found between two units on the MBI, COPE subscale depression/anxiety. When a Bonferroni...
Abstract Background Orthorexia Nervosa (ON) is a construct characterized by behaviors, emotions, and beliefs on eating healthy food excessive attention to diet; moreover, dieting has been considered risk factor in ON symptoms development. The principal aim of this study was investigate the differences clinical non-clinical groups most at ON. Aspects that could be associated with (Eating Disorders [EDs], obsessive-compulsive symptomatology, perfectionistic traits, anxiety, depression, Body...
Depression and post-traumatic stress disorder frequently occur as a consequence of occupational accidents. To date, research has been primarily focused on high-risk workers, such police officers or firefighters, rarely considered individuals whose environment involves the risk severe, but not necessarily life-threatening, injury. Therefore, present study was aimed at assessing psychological consequences accidents occurring in several settings (e.g., construction industry). Thirty-eight...
Abstract Being immersed in a natural context has beneficial and pervasive impact on well-being. Virtual Reality (VR) is technology that can help expose people to naturalistic scenarios virtually, overcoming obstacles prevent them from visiting real environments. VR could also increase engagement relaxation older adults with without cognitive impairment. The main aim of this study investigate the feasibility customized scenario by assessing motion-sickness effects, engagement, pleasantness,...
Background Empirical evidence has shown that virtual reality (VR) scenarios can increase the effects of relaxation techniques, reducing anxiety by enabling people to experience emotional conditions in more vivid settings. Objective This pilot randomized controlled study aims investigate whether progressive muscle technique (PMRT) associated with a personalized scenario VR promotes psychological well-being and facilitates recall relaxing images than standard complementary intervention...
ABSTRACT The lockdown due to coronavirus pandemic may exacerbate depressive symptoms, experts argue. Here we report that students, a high-risk category for mental disorders, on average worse symptoms than six months before isolation. prospective data reported herein should alert clinician of possible aggravation as well new-onsets in students.
There is limited evidence of a link between Orthorexia Nervosa (ON) and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), no definitive conclusions can be drawn. The interplay socio-cultural context ON has been poorly investigated as well. Therefore, the objectives present study were: (1) to investigate differences in OCD symptoms (2) assess relationship among university students. Six hundred sixty-six students participated study: 286 from Poland 320 Italy. No age, gender marital status were identified...
The present descriptive study was aimed at evaluating posttraumatic and depressive symptoms their cooccurrence, in a sample of victims workplace accidents. Also, negative cognitions were assessed. Eighty-five injured workers evaluated, using the PTSD Symptom Scale, Beck Depression Inventory II, Cognitions Inventory. 49.4% reported both clinical relevance. 20% only posttraumatic, but not depressive, symptoms, 30.6% did report either type symptoms. group with displayed greater symptom severity...
Hoarding disorder (HD) was originally conceptualized as a subcategory of obsessive compulsive (OCD), and numerous studies have in fact focused exclusively on investigating the comorbidity between OCD HD. behavior can nevertheless also be found other clinical populations particular patients with eating disorders (ED), anxiety (AD), major depression (MD), psychotic (PD). The current study carried out aim investigating, using validated instrument such Saving Inventory-Revised (SI-R), presence...
Virtual reality (VR) is an innovative tool that can facilitate exposure to either stressful or relaxing stimuli and enables individuals who have difficulties visualizing scenes be involved in a more realistic sensorimotor experience. It also facilitates multisensory stimulation, sense of presence, achievement relaxation. VR scenarios representing visual auditory elements natural environments the learning relaxation techniques such as progressive muscle technique (PMRT). A complementary...