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Stress and anxiety

This section incorporates all areas of stress and anxiety. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, severe and traumatic stress, post-traumatic stress disorder, post-conflict mental health, and phobias.

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  1. Treatment guidelines for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) are based on a relatively small number of randomized controlled trials and do not consider patient-centered perceptions of treatment helpfulness. We ...

    Authors: Dan J. Stein, Alan E. Kazdin, Ayelet Meron Ruscio, Wai Tat Chiu, Nancy A. Sampson, Hannah N. Ziobrowski, Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, Ali Al-Hamzawi, Jordi Alonso, Yasmin Altwaijri, Ronny Bruffaerts, Brendan Bunting, Giovanni de Girolamo, Peter de Jonge, Louisa Degenhardt, Oye Gureje…

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2021 21:392

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  2. The 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a global public health emergency. So far, only a limited number of studies have investigated the impact of the COVID-19 pneumonia pandemic on the mental health of par...

    Authors: Changjuan Zeng, Wenting Cao, Ting Zhao, Li Li and Lili Hou

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2021 21:391

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  3. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on people’s lives globally. The outbreak in Saudi Arabia worsened when the number of cases and deaths rose in March and April of 2020, leading to a national lockdow...

    Authors: Ahmad N. AlHadi, Mohammed A. Alarabi and Khulood M. AlMansoor

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2021 21:382

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  4. There is concern that rates of mental disorders may be increasing although findings disagree. Using an innovative design with a daughter-mother data set we assess whether there has been a generational increase...

    Authors: Jake M. Najman, William Bor, Gail M. Williams, Christel M. Middeldorp, Abdullah A. Mamun, Alexandra M. Clavarino and James G. Scott

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2021 21:359

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  5. Preoperative anxiety is a common psychological reaction in perioperative patients. The absence of a valid measurement tool hinders the evaluation of interventions to treat preoperative anxiety in China. This s...

    Authors: Chengjiao Zhang, Xitong Liu, Tianran Hu, Fei Zhang, Lingyi Pan, Yan Luo and Zhen Wang

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2021 21:358

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  6. The COVID-19 pandemic and relevant prevention and control measures may affect the mental health and induce depressive symptoms in fathers with concurrent partner delivery exposure. This study aims to investiga...

    Authors: Guo-qiang Sun, Qi Wang, Shan-shan Wang and Yao Cheng

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2021 21:327

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  7. The global burden of anxiety and depressive symptoms become increasing, specifically accounts for high burden of morbidity among patients with medical conditions in low-income countries. The aim was to compare...

    Authors: Eyaya Misgan and Habte Belete

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2021 21:324

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  8. Treatment of a child who has an anxiety disorder usually begins with the question of which treatment to start first, medication or psychotherapy. Both have strong empirical support, but few studies have compar...

    Authors: Bradley S. Peterson, Amy E. West, John R. Weisz, Wendy J. Mack, Michele D. Kipke, Robert L. Findling, Brian S. Mittman, Ravi Bansal, Steven Piantadosi, Glenn Takata, Corinna Koebnick, Ceth Ashen, Christopher Snowdy, Marie Poulsen, Bhavana Kumar Arora, Courtney M. Allem…

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2021 21:323

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  9. Cardio- and cerebrovascular events such as myocardial infarction (MI), stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA) are leading causes of death and disability and have also been associated with poor mental outco...

    Authors: Aurora Dollenberg, Sebastian Moeller, Caroline Lücke, Ruihao Wang, Alexandra P. Lam, Alexandra Philipsen, Jürgen M. Gschossmann, Falk Hoffmann and Helge H. O. Müller

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2021 21:295

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  10. Sleep disturbances are common in individuals with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, little is known about how daily variation in sleep characteristics is related to PTSD. This study examined the ...

    Authors: Quinn M. Biggs, Robert J. Ursano, Jing Wang, Gary H. Wynn, Rohul Amin and Carol S. Fullerton

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2021 21:292

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  11. In 2014, the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) took over one-third of Iraq. This study measured the rate of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among Iraqi Yazidi internally displaced persons (...

    Authors: Perjan Hashim Taha, Nezar Ismet Taib and Hushyar Musa Sulaiman

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2021 21:290

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  12. The psychosocial impact of previous infectious disease outbreaks in adults has been well documented, however, there is limited information on the mental health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adults and chi...

    Authors: Basema Saddik, Amal Hussein, Ammar Albanna, Iffat Elbarazi, Arwa Al-Shujairi, Mohamad-Hani Temsah, Fatemeh Saheb Sharif-Askari, Emmanuel Stip, Qutayba Hamid and Rabih Halwani

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2021 21:224

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  13. Pregnancy is a challenging period for mothers and fathers. This study aimed to investigate the effect of counseling on stress and anxiety levels of fathers.

    Authors: Maryam Mohammadpour, Sakineh Mohammad-Alizadeh Charandabi, Jamileh Malakouti, Mehriar Nadar Mohammadi and Mojgan Mirghafourvand

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2021 21:208

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  14. Sexual assault is implicated in several adverse psychological and physical health outcomes, including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression. Neurobiological research has shown variations related ...

    Authors: Ana Teresa D. D’Elia, Mario F. Juruena, Bruno M. Coimbra, Marcelo F. Mello and Andrea F. Mello

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2021 21:174

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  15. Mental health screening in the workplace aims to identify employees who are becoming symptomatic, in order to provide timely support and evidence-based interventions to those affected. Given the stigma associa...

    Authors: Ruth E. Marshall, Josie Milligan-Saville, Katherine Petrie, Richard A. Bryant, Philip B. Mitchell and Samuel B. Harvey

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2021 21:135

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  16. The present study aimed to investigate the associations of obesity phenotypes with depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms among adults in the Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study (TLGS).

    Authors: Fahimeh Mehrabi, Parisa Amiri, Leila Cheraghi, Ali Kheradmand, Farhad Hosseinpanah and Fereidoun Azizi

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2021 21:124

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  17. Noninvasive brain stimulation techniques like transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) offer potential new approaches to treat stress-related mental health disorders. While the acceptability of tDCS as a...

    Authors: Fenne M. Smits, Guido J. de Kort and Elbert Geuze

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2021 21:97

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  18. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected many countries around the world and Iran was no exception. The aim of this study was to evaluate health anxiety of Iranian pregnant women during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Authors: Najmieh Saadati, Poorandokht Afshari, Hatam Boostani, Maryam Beheshtinasab, Parvin Abedi and Elham Maraghi

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2021 21:95

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  19. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, physicians experienced unprecedented levels of burnout. The uncertainty of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic along with increased workload and difficult medical triage decisions may...

    Authors: Kirsten M. Fiest, Jeanna Parsons Leigh, Karla D. Krewulak, Kara M. Plotnikoff, Laryssa G. Kemp, Joshua Ng-Kamstra and Henry T. Stelfox

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2021 21:91

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  20. Experiencing natural disasters is associated with common mental disorders including major depressive disorder (MDD). However, the latent structure of MDD is widely debated, and few studies tested the MDD facto...

    Authors: Yajie Bi, Li Wang, Chengqi Cao, Ruojiao Fang, Gen Li, Ping Liu, Shu Luo, Haibo Yang and Brian J. Hall

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2021 21:59

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  21. Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is one of the most reported diagnoses in psychiatry, but there is some discrepancy between the cases identified in community studies and those identified in tertiary care. Th...

    Authors: Antonio Preti, Roberto Demontis, Giulia Cossu, Goce Kalcev, Federico Cabras, Maria Francesca Moro, Ferdinando Romano, Matteo Balestrieri, Filippo Caraci, Liliana Dell’Osso, Guido Di Sciascio, Filippo Drago, Maria Carolina Hardoy, Rita Roncone, Carlo Faravelli, Cesar Ivan Aviles Gonzalez…

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2021 21:48

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  22. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread rapidly in China and other overseas areas, which has aroused widespread concern. The sharp increase in the number of patients has led to great psychological press...

    Authors: Xue-Hui Fang, Li Wu, Lun-Shan Lu, Xiao-Hong Kan, Hua Wang, Yan-Jun Xiong, Dong-Chun Ma and Guo-Cui Wu

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2021 21:34

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  23. This prospective longitudinal study examined and compared two measures (prospective and retrospective ones) of post-traumatic growth (PTG) following Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation (HSCT) and their res...

    Authors: Maya Corman, Marie-Thérèse Rubio, Aurélie Cabrespine, Isabelle Brindel, Jacques-Olivier Bay, Régis Peffault De La Tour and Michaël Dambrun

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2021 21:27

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  24. Quarantine as a preventive action to reduce people’s exposure to a contagious disease has substantial psychological impact. We aimed to collect information on psychologically distressing experiences of Italian...

    Authors: Maurizio Bonati, Rita Campi, Michele Zanetti, Massimo Cartabia, Francesca Scarpellini, Antonio Clavenna and Giulia Segre

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2021 21:20

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  25. Psychosis can be a sufficiently traumatic event to lead to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Previous research has focussed on the trauma of first episode psychosis (FEP) and the only review to date of PT...

    Authors: Georgina Buswell, Zoë Haime, Brynmor Lloyd-Evans and Jo Billings

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2021 21:9

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  26. In clinical environments, nursing students experience a range of stressors that can affect their health, learning, and quality of patient care. This study aimed to develop a Nursing Students’ Perceptions of Cl...

    Authors: Foozieh Rafati, Hamid Sharif Nia, Zohreh Khoshnood and Kelly-Ann Allen

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2021 21:1

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  27. In addition to physical problems, patients with COVID-19 suffer from considerable stress throughout the disease crisis. It is important to address mental health needs and not to ignore the psychological dimens...

    Authors: Yaser Moradi, Farzin Mollazadeh, Parivash Karimi, Keyvan Hosseingholipour and Rahim Baghaei

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:594

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  28. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder that causes impairment in daily activities. This study aimed to assess the safety and efficacy of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) as ad...

    Authors: Sadegh Yoosefee, Man Amanat, Mona Salehi, Seyed Vahid Mousavi, Jamshid Behzadmanesh, Victoria Safary, Ali Yoonesi and Bahman Salehi

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:570

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  29. This prospective, cross-sectional, observational study examined associations between sense of coherence (SOC), mental well-being, and perceived preoperative hospital and surgery related stress of surgical pati...

    Authors: Henning Krampe, Ute Goerling, Claudia D. Spies, Sina K. Gerhards, Sören Enge, Anna-Lena Salz, Léonie F. Kerper and Tatjana Schnell

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:567

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  30. Loneliness is associated with negative outcomes, including increased mortality and is common among people with mental health problems. This qualitative study, which was carried out as part of a feasibility tri...

    Authors: Johanna Frerichs, Jo Billings, Nick Barber, Anjie Chhapia, Beverley Chipp, Prisha Shah, Anna Shorten, Theodora Stefanidou, Sonia Johnson, Brynmor Lloyd Evans and Vanessa Pinfold

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:565

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  31. While considerable progress has been made in exploring the psychological, the neural, and the neurochemical dimensions of OCD separately, their interplay is still an open question, especially their changes dur...

    Authors: Kathrin Viol, Günter Schiepek, Martin Kronbichler, Arnulf Hartl, Carina Grafetstätter, Peter Strasser, Anna Kastinger, Helmut Schöller, Eva-Maria Reiter, Sarah Said-Yürekli, Lisa Kronbichler, Brigitte Kravanja-Spannberger, Barbara Stöger-Schmidinger, Marc-Thorsten Hütt, Wolfgang Aichhorn and Benjamin Aas

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:559

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  32. The 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a public health emergency of international concern. To date, there are limited studies that have investigated the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on mental health among f...

    Authors: Peiqin Liang, Yiding Wang, Si Shi, Yan Liu and Ribo Xiong

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:557

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  33. Although the clinical efficacy and safety of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in the treatment of chronic tinnitus have been frequently examined, the results remain contradictory. Therefore,...

    Authors: Zhengrong Liang, Haidi Yang, Gui Cheng, Lingfei Huang, Tao Zhang and Haiying Jia

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:547

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  34. Recent research has identified a number of pre-traumatic, peri-traumatic and post-traumatic psychological and ecological factors that put an individual at increased risk for developing PTSD following a life-th...

    Authors: Michelle A. Worthington, Amar Mandavia and Randall Richardson-Vejlgaard

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:532

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  35. The Distress Thermometer (DT) is worldwide the most commonly used instrument for quick screening of emotional burden in patients with cancer. In order to validate the Greek version of the DT in the Greek popul...

    Authors: M. Kyranou, C. Varvara, M. Papathanasiou, Ι. Diakogiannis, K. Zafeiropoulos, M. Apostolidis, C. Papandreou and M. Syngelakis

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:527

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  36. Long-term sick-leave due to stress-related ill-health is increasing in several economically developed countries. Even though different forms of interventions are administered in regular care for stress-related...

    Authors: Jakob Clason van de Leur, Monica Buhrman, Fredrik Åhs, Alexander Rozental and Gunilla Brodda Jansen

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:526

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  37. The WHO reports that anxiety disorders are the most common mental disorders worldwide. Most people who experience such events recover from it; however, people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) continu...

    Authors: Mohammad Marie, Sana SaadAdeen and Maher Battat

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:509

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  38. Novel corona virus, named COVID-19, has spread rapidly to other countries like Italy, Iran and South Korea and affected all people, especially health-care providers. Therefore, due to the rapid spread of the d...

    Authors: Azizeh Alizadeh, Hamid Reza Khankeh, Mohammad Barati, Yazdan Ahmadi, Arash Hadian and Maryam Azizi

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:494

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  39. COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented health and economic impact. Psychological stress, anxiety and depression are affecting not only COVID-19 patients but also health professionals, and general populati...

    Authors: Dhan Bahadur Shrestha, Bikash Bikram Thapa, Nagendra Katuwal, Bikal Shrestha, Chiranjibi Pant, Bina Basnet, Pankaj Mandal, Amol Gurung, Ankita Agrawal and Ramhari Rouniyar

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:491

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  40. COVID-19 infection is a new disease that infects a large number of people, killing a ratio of whom every day in the world. Healthcare staff, especially nurses, experience a great deal of psychological distress...

    Authors: Nasrin Galehdar, Aziz Kamran, Tahereh Toulabi and Heshmatolah Heydari

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:489

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  41. COVID-19 is a global pandemic and has become a major public health burden worldwide. With already fragile healthcare systems it can have long lasting effects in developing countries. Outbreaks especially a pan...

    Authors: Faridah Amin, Salman Sharif, Rabeeya Saeed, Noureen Durrani and Daniyal Jilani

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:459

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  42. Improving the psychotherapies for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is dependent on a deeper understanding of the relations between GAD and its associated cognitive factors. In the present study, we investiga...

    Authors: Lei Ren, Zhou Yang, Yidi Wang, Long-Biao Cui, Yinchuan Jin, Zhujing Ma, Qintao Zhang, Zhongying Wu, Hua-Ning Wang and Qun Yang

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:452

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  43. With the increasing diversity of the German population, it is important to test the psychometric validity and reliability of the German version Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10) specifically between German nativ...

    Authors: Christina Diane Bastianon, Eva M. Klein, Ana Nanette Tibubos, Elmar Brähler, Manfred E. Beutel and Katja Petrowski

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:450

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  44. Neurological symptoms are increasingly being noted among COVID-19 patients. Currently, there is little data on the mental health of neurological healthcare workers. The aim of this study was to identify the pr...

    Authors: Xianjun Ning, Fang Yu, Qin Huang, Xi Li, Yunfang Luo, Qing Huang and Changqing Chen

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:436

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  45. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), which includes exposure and response prevention (ERP), is effective in improving symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). However, whether poor cognitive functions a...

    Authors: Sayo Hamatani, Aki Tsuchiyagaito, Masato Nihei, Yuta Hayashi, Tokiko Yoshida, Jumpei Takahashi, Sho Okawa, Honami Arai, Maki Nagaoka, Kazuki Matsumoto, Eiji Shimizu and Yoshiyuki Hirano

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:433

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  46. Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is closely associated with emotional dysregulation. Patients with GAD tend to overreact to emotional stimuli and are impaired in emotional regulation. Using emotional regulat...

    Authors: Jian Li, Yuan Zhong, Zijuan Ma, Yun Wu, Manlong Pang, Chiyue Wang, Na Liu, Chun Wang and Ning Zhang

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:429

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  47. Responses to stressful circumstances have psychological and physiological dimensions, and are related to anxiety symptoms and mental disorders such as depression. Nonetheless, the relationship between subclini...

    Authors: Georgia Konstantopoulou, Theodoros Iliou, Katerina Karaivazoglou, Gregoris Iconomou, Konstantinos Assimakopoulos and Panagiotis Alexopoulos

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:428

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  48. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may stem from the formation of aberrant and enduring aversive memories. Some PTSD patients have recreationally used Cannabis, probably aiming at relieving their symptomatology...

    Authors: Ana Maria Raymundi, Thiago R. da Silva, Jeferson M. B. Sohn, Leandro J. Bertoglio and Cristina A. Stern

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:420

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  50. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused serious psychological problems, including panic attack, anxiety, stress, and depression. The main objective of this study was to measure the prevalence a...

    Authors: Amir Vahedian-Azimi, Malihe Sadat Moayed, Farshid Rahimibashar, Sajad Shojaei, Sara Ashtari and Mohamad Amin Pourhoseingholi

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:402

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