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Smoking cessation, anxiety, mood and quality of life: reassuring evidences.
2014
A close and complex relationship between smoking and mental health problems was found. Different hypotheses have been proposed to explain these associations: 1) smoking and poor mental health may share common causes (genetic factors or environmental mechanisms); 2) for people with poor mental health smoking is a coping strategy to regulate psychiatric symptoms; 3) smokings worsen mental health. Moreover, smokers with psychiatric disorders may have more difficulty quitting and patients with mental diseases who received mental health treatment within the previous year were more likely to stop smoking than those not receiving treatment. Taylor et al. hypothesized that quitting smoking might im…
Clinical and Sociodemographic Variables and the Level of Social Support in People with Multiple Sclerosis
2019
Wstęp. Stwardnienie rozsiane (SM) jest przewlekłą, postępującą neurologiczną chorobą, która może prowadzić do znacznej niepełnosprawności. Istotnym zasobem w radzeniu sobie z SM i innymi chorobami przewlekłymi jest wsparcie społeczne.Cel. Celem badań było określenie związku pomiędzy zmiennymi klinicznymi i socjodemograficznymi a wsparciem społecznym u osób z SM.Materiał i metody. W badaniu wykorzystano Rozszerzoną Skalę Niewydolności Ruchowej (EDSS), Skalę Niepełnosprawności Neurologicznej Szpitala Guy (GNDS) oraz Berlińskie Skale Wsparcia Społecznego Grupę badaną stanowiło 137 osób ze zdiagnozowanym SM.Wyniki. Spostrzegane wsparcie społeczne nie jest powiązane ze zmiennymi klinicznymi, tak…
The Occurrence of Diseases and Related Factors in a Center for Asylum Seekers in Italy
2016
Italy is the main recipient of asylum seekers in the European region, and Sicily is their first point of arrival. This geographical position creates a large job for Health Authorities to identify and deal with the health of immigrants. This study evaluates the prevalence of disease among asylum seekers, assessing which are associated factors.A cross-sectional study was conducted to analyse demographic and clinical data in an Acceptance Centres for Asylum Seekers from February 2012 to May 2013. All variables that were found to be significant on unvariable analysis for the most frequent pathologies were included in a multivariable logistic regression model.Post-traumatic stress disorders with…