Publications by authors named "Giuseppa Gallo"
Background: In this study, we examined the impact of personality traits, assessed with the psychopathic personality inventory revised version (PPI-R), on medical students' likelihood of selecting a surgical specialty.
Methods: This is a cross-sectional questionnaire-based study of 360 4-year medical students at a single university. We used the PPI-R previously developed to evaluate "adaptive" traits within nonclinical (student) populations.
Introduction: The aim of this study is to evaluate the influence of negative emotions such as depression, anxiety and anger on clinical expression of type 1 diabetes, also assessing possible gender differences.
Materials And Methods: 75 subjects with type 1 diabetes mellitus afferent to Diabetology Unit of the University Hospital in Messina underwent the following psychodiagnostic tests: Hamilton Rating Scale For Depression (HDRS), State-Trait Anxiety Inventory form Y (STAI-Y), State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory-2 (STAXI-2). Continuous data were expressed as mean ± standard deviation, and the comparison between groups was performed using T Student test; the data not continuous were expressed as a percentage and the differences between groups were evaluated using Chi-square test.
Objectives: The present 12-week, open-label uncontrolled trial was aimed to explore the efficacy of ziprasidone add-on pharmacotherapy on clinical symptoms and cognitive functioning in a sample of patients with treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder receiving serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SRIs).
Methods: After clinical (Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale [Y-BOCS], Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression) and neurocognitive (Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, Stroop Colour-Word Test, Trail Making Test) assessments, patients received 80 mg/d of ziprasidone.
Result: A final sample of 17 patients completed the study.