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Resilience and Quality of Life in Mood Disorders and Diabetes: Correlations with Personality Traits, Coping and Self-esteem
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The topic of resilience is obtaining a growing interest in psychiatric research. Resilience refers to positive
adaptation or ability to maintain or regain mental health despite experiencing adversity. It is a dynamic,
context- and time-specific process, and may vary across all life domains. Pathways to resilience are
multiple and reciprocally interacting, and include biological, psychological, social and dispositional attributes.
These factors play an important role both in psychiatric and somatic chronic disorders.
Aims
Our aim is to evaluate and compare resilience in mood disorder patients and diabetic ones. We also mean
to investigate personality features, coping abilities, self-esteem and quality of life, and their possible
correlation with resilience in these two populations.
Methods
Mood disorder and diabetic patients will be recruited at the Psychiatry Institute (SC Psichiatria) and
Endocrinology Ward (SC Endocrinologia), respectively. Socio-demographic data will be gathered and
patients will be asked to fill the following self-administered scales: Resilience Scale for Adult (RSA), Coping
Orientation to Problems Experienced Inventory – Brief (Brief Cope), Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES),
Paykel List Of Stressful Events, Temperamental and Character Inventory (TCI), Short Form 36 (SF-36).
Results/Conclusions
Data collection is ongoing. We expect that the findings from this research may allow to develop strategies to
support patients with chronic diseases, both as far as outcome and subjective well-being are concerned,
according to the World Health Organization definition of 'mental” and 'physical” health
A pilot project of cinemeducation for medical students: focus on psychiatry, stigma, and empathy
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Resilience, coping, personality traits, self-esteem and quality of life in mood disorders
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Resilience is a dynamic, context- and time-specific process that refers to positive adaptation or ability to maintain or regain mental health despite experiencing adversity. Pathways to resilience include biological, psychological, social and dispositional attributes. In mood disorders, resilience may influence frequency of relapse, severity of episodes and response to treatment.
Aims
To evaluate resilience as well as personality features, coping abilities, self-esteem and quality of life in a sample of mood disorder patients.
Methods
We recruited mood disorder patients at the Psychiatry institute AOU Maggiore della Carità, Novara. Socio-demographic data were gathered and patients filled in the following self-administered scales: Resilience Scale for Adult (RSA), Brief Cope, Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES), Paykel list of stressful events, Temperamental and Character Inventory (TCI), Quality of life (SF-36).
Results
We collected data from 61 patients. Statistical analysis was performed by calculating the Pearson Correlation Coefficient between the RSA and the other tests. We observed a positive correlation between RSA and coping “Emotion” and coping “Problem”. A negative correlation was found between RSA and coping “Avoidance”. Resilience was also positively related to self-esteem and physical, mental and general health. As far as personality traits are concerned, resilience was positively correlated with Reward dependence, persistence, self transcendence, self directedness and cooperativeness.
Conclusions
Since higher resilience levels are related with better physical and mental health, constructive coping and self-esteem, strategies aimed at enhancing resilience could improve treatment and quality of life in patients with mood disorders
Who is a survivor of suicide loss? A systematic review
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Death by suicide stuns with soul-crushing surprise, leaving family and friends not only grieving the unexpected death, but confused and lost by this haunting loss. The underlying structure of grief for survivors of suicide loss appears complicated.
Aims
The purpose of this study consists in reviewing literature data about survivors of suicide, especially exploring the few informations emerged by researches on the role of psychiatrist as “survivor”.
Methods
A PubMed search was conducted using combinations of the following keywords: survivors suicide or bereavement suicide or suicide psychiatrists and randomized.
The search was conducted through September 10, 2015, and no conference proceedings were included.
Results
Bereavement following suicide is complicated by the psychological impact of the act on those close to the victim. It is further complicated by the societal perception that the act of suicide is a failure by the victim and the family to deal with some emotional issue and ultimately society affixes blame for the loss on the survivors. This individual or societal stigma introduces a unique stress on the bereavement process that in some cases requires clinical intervention.
Conclusions
Suicide bereavement seems to be different from natural loss. Clinicians may react to a patient's suicide both on a personal and professional level, with emotions such as loss of self-esteem or blame. This grief somehow nullifies the core of a helping relationship and may imply a more conservative management of future patients or even avoiding to accept suicidal patients for treatment. Support interventions have been proposed
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
A case-control study of alexythimia, facial emotion identification and social inference in eating disorders
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