A5046088781- Educational and Social Studies
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Educational and Psychological Assessments
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Behavioral and Psychological Studies
- Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Management, Economics, and Public Policy
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Psychiatry, Mental Health, Neuroscience
- Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Cardiac Health and Mental Health
- Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Cognitive Science and Mapping
University of Padua
2008-2024
Recent theories of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) emphasize the importance cognitive contents (beliefs and appraisals) processes in etiology maintenance OCD. In order to evaluate these assess mechanisms treatment-related change, it is necessary develop measures relevant processes. Several scales have been developed, although many are unpublished there a great deal overlap among measures. The purpose present article describe progress an international group investigators who commenced...
The Italian version of the McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ) is presented. Unlike Melzack's version, it was developed by employing 3 groups normal subjects, excluding physicians or patients suffering from chronic pain. verbal scale pain intensity obtained 78 descriptors which form semantic key and their rank values within each subclass were thus obtained. subdivision into classes subclasses respected. Procedure also basically same. MPQ joins English, French Finnish ones might provide basis for...
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...
To identify coping strategies used by patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and to assess the influence of main clinical variables on health-related quality life (HRQOL).We administered Coping Orientation Problems Experienced Short Form 36 questionnaire a group 144 SLE 129 healthy controls. At time psychological assessment, all underwent complete laboratory evaluation.SLE had higher scores in acceptance (P < 0.001) turning religion = 0.05) lower planning 0.001), suppression...
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...
The aim of this study was to validate the Body Checking Questionnaire (BCQ) in an eating disorder population, using students psychology as control. Five hundred and seventy-three females (422 controls 151 disorders patients, mean age 24.1 ± 5.9 years) completed BCQ measures psychopathology. Confirmatory factor analysis confirmed that global construct body checking with three correlated subfactors. has good test-retest reliability (0.90), subfactors had internal consistency (0.90, 0.92,...
Forty patients suffering from persistent psychophysiological Disorders of Initiating and Maintaining Sleep (DIMS) were assigned to one the following groups: (1) EMG-biofeedback training; (2) cognitive modification treatment, combining paradoxical instructions, restructuring thought stopping; (3) stimulus control progressive relaxation treatment; (4) waiting list (control). Each active treatment consisted six sessions over a period 2 weeks. After in three groups showed shorter sleep onset...