A5089738930- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Cardiac Health and Mental Health
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Educational and Social Studies
- Family Support in Illness
- Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
- Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments
- Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Psychiatry, Mental Health, Neuroscience
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
- Neurology and Historical Studies
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Clinical Nutrition and Gastroenterology
- Workplace Health and Well-being
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Migraine and Headache Studies
- Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
University of Bologna
2011-2021
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
2006
University of Padua
2006
<i>Background:</i> The Illness Attitude Scales (IAS) were developed by Robert Kellner as a clinimetric index for measuring hypochondriacal fears and beliefs (worry about illness, concerns pain, health habits, beliefs, thanatophobia, disease phobia, bodily preoccupations, treatment experience effects of symptoms). IAS have been extensively used in the past two decades, but there has no comprehensive review their properties applications. <i>Methods:</i> A literature...
Introduction: Randomized controlled trials (RCT) of psychotherapeutic interventions have addressed depression and demoralization associated with acute coronary syndromes (ACS). The present trial introduces psychological well-being, an increasingly recognized factor in cardiovascular health, as a therapeutic target. Objective: This study was designed to determine whether the sequential combination cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) well-being (WBT) may yield more favorable outcomes than...
The aims of this study were to examine the psychological features demoralization and its overlap with major depressive disorder in a sample cardiac transplant recipients, special reference well-being, quality life, distress. We also tested whether was significantly associated demographic characteristics clinical parameters, including survival status at 6-year follow-up.From May December 2002, 95 heart transplanted patients administered Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Diagnostic...
Some reports suggest a link between poor psychological adjustment to heart transplantation and an increased risk of subsequent adverse clinical outcome. Despite its prognostic therapeutic implications, this issue is still lacking adequate empirical studies. We prospectively tested the predictive value complete set psychiatric variables, collected with both self-rating observer-based instruments at midterm after transplantation, on 6-year survival status.Ninety-five transplanted patients...
The role of type A behaviour in cardiovascular disease is controversial and most the research based on self-rating scales. aim this study was to assess prevalence cardiology other medical settings using reliable interview methods that reflect its original description.A sample 1398 consecutive patients (198 with heart transplantation, 153 a myocardial infarction, 190 functional gastrointestinal disorders, 104 cancer, 545 skin disorders 208 referred for psychiatric consultation) administered...
Summary Objective To verify whether patients with pituitary disorders in remission and on appropriate treatment display significant differences psychological distress compared to healthy controls other treated for nonpituitary endocrine disorders. Design A single‐centred, controlled study. Patients Eighty‐six outpatients cured or at least 9 months following by surgery, irradiation and/or pharmacological interventions disease were 86 subjects. sample comprising 60 from was also compared....
Emotional inhibition has been an enduring concept in the psychosomatic literature explaining onset and course of medical disorders. Currently personality style alexithymia is a focus this dimension theory, while actual conscious emotional inhibition, which may overlap with alexithymia, received less attention. In early 80s Robert Kellner developed Inhibition Scale (EIS), self-rating scale for based on clinimetric principles. study we explored whether EIS differentiated sample cardiac...
Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) are common in primary care and one of the most challenging clinical encounters for general practitioners (GPs).To assess GPs' experience with MUS its relationship their gender, age length practice.Four hundred thirty-three Italian GPs were invited to complete a questionnaire encompassing following MUS-related features: workload, cognitive emotional responses, management strategies, attitudes towards psychological interventions, sources education...
To examine associations between perceived social support, quality of life, psychopathological, demographic and clinical variables in long-term heart transplant survivors.Sixty six patients transplanted from 10.2 ± 3.3 years completed the Interpersonal Support Evaluation List, Symptom Questionnaire World Health Organization Quality Life-BREF. Parameters post-transplant medical course were retrieved. Spearman rank order correlation, Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal-Wallis test multiple regression...
Abstract Background The clinical value of the identification mood disorders in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is well established. However, assessment based on DSM criteria presents some limitations. This study aimed to provide an innovative strategy for evaluating spectrum disturbances ACS. Methods A total 288 a first episode ACS underwent interviews DSM-IV-TR (major depressive disorder, minor depression, and dysthymia), Diagnostic Criteria Psychosomatic Research-DCPR...