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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. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. 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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  24. 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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  25. 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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  26. 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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  27. 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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  29. 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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  30. Most patients with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) suffer residual symptoms following first-line treatment. Oxidative stress has been implicated in the pathophysiology of PTSD. N-acetylcysteine (NAC) is a...

    Authors: Alice Maier, Anita Dharan, Gina Oliver, Michael Berk, Suzy Redston, Sudie E. Back, Peter Kalivas, Chee Ng and Richard A. Kanaan

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:397

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  31. Succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase (SSADH) deficiency is a rare neurometabolic disorder resulting in a heterogeneous clinical phenotype. Adolescent and adult patients with SSADH deficiency may present with OC...

    Authors: Sachin Phakey, Thomas Rego, Frank Gaillard, Julie Panetta, Andrew Evans, Gerard De Jong and Mark Walterfang

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:395

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  32. Anxiety and depression are common mental health problems among patients with cancer. While many psychological variables have been proven to influence anxiety and depressive symptoms, the variables are not mutu...

    Authors: Lulu Yuan, Bochen Pan, Weiren Wang, Lie Wang, Xujie Zhang and Yuqin Gao

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:394

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  33. Patients with somatoform, depressive or anxiety disorders often don’t respond well to medical treatment and experience many side effects. It is thus of clinical relevance to identify alternative, scientificall...

    Authors: Katharina Hüfner, Cornelia Ower, Georg Kemmler, Theresa Vill, Caroline Martini, Andrea Schmitt and Barbara Sperner-Unterweger

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:385

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  34. Anxiety disorders during pregnancy are not routinely assessed in Sri Lanka despite being common and being associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes. Screening can facilitate early detection and management of ...

    Authors: M. N. Priyadarshanie, M. D. I. A. Waas, C. S. E. Goonewardena, A. Balasuriya, B. C. V. Senaratna and D. M. S. Fernando

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:381

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  35. Application of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) for treating obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has been promising and approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2018, but effects diff...

    Authors: Reza Rostami, Reza Kazemi, Arezoo Jabbari, Azam Sadat Madani, Hosseinreza Rostami, Mohammad Amin Taherpour, Parviz Molavi, Nematollah Jaafari, Min-Fang Kuo, Carmelo M. Vicario, Michael A. Nitsche and Mohammad Ali Salehinejad

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:372

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  36. Mental disorders among refugees as well as their risk factors are already well documented in cross-sectional reports. However, longitudinal follow-up designs are widely lacking. Therefore, the aim of this stud...

    Authors: Andrea Borho, Andre Viazminsky, Eva Morawa, Gregor Martin Schmitt, Ekaterini Georgiadou and Yesim Erim

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:362

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  38. Though lifetime exposure to traumatic events is significant, only a minority of individuals develops symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Post-trauma alterations in neurocognitive and affective fu...

    Authors: Mareike Augsburger and Isaac R. Galatzer-Levy

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:325

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  39. Anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) contribute significantly to disability adjusted life years in low- to middle-income countries (LMICs). Screening has been proposed to improve identification an...

    Authors: Anisa Y. Mughal, Jackson Devadas, Eric Ardman, Brooke Levis, Vivian F. Go and Bradley N. Gaynes

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:338

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  40. Hospitals, police stations, and fire departments are highly demanding workplaces. Staff members are regularly exposed to various stressors including traumatic events. Correspondingly, several studies report hi...

    Authors: Sarah K. Schäfer, M. Roxanne Sopp, Marlene Staginnus, Johanna Lass-Hennemann and Tanja Michael

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:335

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  41. Previous research has suggested that worry is negatively associated with working memory performance. However, it is unclear whether these findings would replicate across different worry levels and in individua...

    Authors: Judith Held, Andreea Vîslă, Richard E. Zinbarg, Christine Wolfer and Christoph Flückiger

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:317

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  42. Trauma-focused therapy approaches are recommended as treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This includes the treatment of trauma-related suffering in refugee populations. However, there is a lack...

    Authors: Elisa Kaltenbach, Katharin Hermenau, Maggie Schauer, Katalin Dohrmann, Thomas Elbert and Inga Schalinski

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:312

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  43. Limited work has been done to explain how work-family conflict is related to anxiety symptoms and the roles of emotional exhaustion and social support may play.

    Authors: Hui Zhang, Leiwen Tang, ZhiHong Ye, Ping Zou, Jing Shao, Man Wu, Qi Zhang, Guojin Qiao and Shaoyu Mu

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:266

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  44. Traumatic war experiences, like the ones the Yazidi had to undergo due to the attack of the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) in August 2014, are often followed by psychological consequences such as posttraumatic...

    Authors: Jan Ilhan Kizilhan, Nadine Friedl, Johanna Neumann and Leonie Traub

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:256

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  45. Previous attempts to identify predictors of treatment outcomes in body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) have yielded inconsistent findings. One way to increase precision and clinical utility could be to use machine l...

    Authors: Oskar Flygare, Jesper Enander, Erik Andersson, Brjánn Ljótsson, Volen Z. Ivanov, David Mataix-Cols and Christian Rück

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:247

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  46. Co-existence of depression and anxiety can be associated with severe detrimental consequences to the physical, mental and social wellbeing of the affected populations. This study was conducted to determine pre...

    Authors: Ramzi Shawahna, Suhaib Hattab, Rami Al-Shafei and Mahmoud Tab’ouni

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:244

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  47. Population-based administrative registers are often used for research purposes. However, their potential usefulness depends on the validity of the registered information. This study assessed the validity of th...

    Authors: Alba Vilaplana-Pérez, Josef Isung, Sonja Krig, Sarah Vigerland, Maral Jolstedt, Johan Bjureberg, Jens Högström, Kayoko Isomura, Daniel Rautio, Eva Serlachius, Christian Rück, David Mataix-Cols and Lorena Fernández de la Cruz

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:242

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  48. Data on intensive care unit (ICU) related psychiatric morbidity from Low Middle-Income Countries are sparse. We studied the ICU related posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), anxiety, and depression symptoms in...

    Authors: Swagata Tripathy, Swati P. Acharya, Santosh Singh, Suravi Patra, Biswa Ranjan Mishra and Nilamadhab Kar

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:220

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  49. A major research finding in the field of Biological Psychiatry is that symptom-based categories of mental disorders map poorly onto dysfunctions in brain circuits or neurobiological pathways. Many of the ident...

    Authors: Tanja M. Brückl, Victor I. Spoormaker, Philipp G. Sämann, Anna-Katharine Brem, Lara Henco, Darina Czamara, Immanuel Elbau, Norma C. Grandi, Lee Jollans, Anne Kühnel, Laura Leuchs, Dorothee Pöhlchen, Maximilian Schneider, Alina Tontsch, Martin E. Keck, Leonhard Schilbach…

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:213

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  50. The present study was designed to evaluate the efficacy of a therapist-guided internet-based cognitive-behavioral therapy (iCBT) intervention for service members of the German Armed Forces with posttraumatic s...

    Authors: Helen Niemeyer, Christine Knaevelsrud, Sarah Schumacher, Sinha Engel, Annika Kuester, Sebastian Burchert, Beate Muschalla, Deborah Weiss, Jan Spies, Heinrich Rau and Gerd-Dieter Willmund

    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2020 20:205

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