Burden of depression in outpatient HIV-infected adults in sub-Saharan Africa; systematic review and meta-analysis

SM Lofgren, DJ Bond, N Nakasujja, DR Boulware - AIDS and Behavior, 2020 - Springer
Despite the substantial burden of HIV in Africa, and the knowledge that depression causes
worse HIV outcomes, the burden of depression in people living with HIV in Africa is …

Stress and its effects on medical students: a cross-sectional study at a college of medicine in Saudi Arabia

HM Abdulghani, AA AlKanhal… - Journal of health …, 2011 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Medical education is perceived as being stressful, and a high level of stress may have a
negative effect on cognitive functioning and learning of students in a medical school. This …

Factors influencing psychological distress during a disease epidemic: data from Australia's first outbreak of equine influenza

MR Taylor, KE Agho, GJ Stevens, B Raphael - BMC public health, 2008 - Springer
Abstract Background In 2007 Australia experienced its first outbreak of highly infectious
equine influenza. Government disease control measures were put in place to control …

Medical student psychological distress and mental illness relative to the general population: a Canadian cross-sectional survey

B Maser, M Danilewitz, E Guérin, L Findlay… - Academic …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Purpose To provide national data on Canadian medical students' mental health and show
how their mental health compares with that of similarly aged postsecondary graduates from …

What's under the ROC? An introduction to receiver operating characteristics curves

DL Streiner, J Cairney - The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
It is often necessary to dichotomize a continuous scale to separate respondents into normal
and abnormal groups. However, because the distributions of the scores in these 2 groups …

Kessler psychological distress scale: normative data from the 2007 Australian National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing

T Slade, R Grove, P Burgess - Australian & New Zealand …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: To present Australian normative data on the ten-item Kessler Psychological
Distress Scale (K10). Method: Analysis of cross-sectional data from the 2007 Australian …

Assessing generalized anxiety disorder in elderly people using the GAD-7 and GAD-2 scales: results of a validation study

B Wild, A Eckl, W Herzog, D Niehoff, S Lechner… - The American journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Objective The aim of this study was to evaluate the validity of the seven-item Generalized
Anxiety Disorder scale (GAD-7) and its two core items (GAD-2) for detecting GAD in elderly …

[HTML][HTML] The validity and reliability of screening measures for depression and anxiety disorders in multiple sclerosis

RA Marrie, L Zhang, LM Lix, LA Graff, JR Walker… - Multiple sclerosis and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Objective We aimed to evaluate the validity and reliability of multiple screening measures for
depression and anxiety for use in the clinical care of people with multiple sclerosis (MS) …

Smoking characteristics of adults with selected lifetime mental illnesses: results from the 2007 National Health Interview Survey

AK McClave, LR McKnight-Eily… - … journal of public …, 2010 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. We estimated smoking prevalence, frequency, intensity, and cessation attempts
among US adults with selected diagnosed lifetime mental illnesses. Methods. We used data …

The influence of sensitivity to reward and punishment, propensity for sensation seeking, depression, and anxiety on the risky behaviour of novice drivers: a path model

B Scott‐Parker, B Watson, MJ King… - British journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Young novice drivers are significantly more likely to be killed or injured in car crashes than
older, experienced drivers. Graduated driver licensing (GDL), which allows the novice to …