A study of aggression among mass-evacuated Kosovo Albanians.

Aggression among a sample of traumatized, mass-evacuated adults from Kosovo was studied, using a prospective design with a baseline study, follow-ups at three months and six months in Sweden, and an additional follow-up after one and a half years in both Sweden and Kosovo. Aggression was measured with the Revised Swedish Version of Aggression questionnaire (AQ-RSV). Traumatic events and PTSD-related symptoms were measured by the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire (HTQ), and depression with HSCL-25.

Sense of coherence and recovery from major depression: a 4-year follow-up.

The aim of this longitudinal exploratory study was to identify and follow persons with the first episode of major depression (MD) to determine whether sense of coherence (SOC) changes over time. An additional purpose was to assess whether SOC is associated with depressive symptoms, aggression, and functional status either immediately after diagnosis or at 4 years postdiagnosis. The study design was longitudinal; participants participated in semistructured interviews and completed surveys every 6 months starting at diagnosis and concluding 4 years later.

Self-rated aggression and cerebral monoaminergic turnover. Sex differences in patients with persistent depressive disorder.

Objective: Outward-directed violence and impulsivity in humans and primates has frequently been related to abnormal brain monoaminergic turnover. Self-rated aggression is likely to be clinically relevant,and its psychobiological basis needs investigation.

Subjects: Sixty-six patients (40 women and 26 men) with persistent depressive disorder (PDD) were compared with 497 control subjects from the general Swedish population.

Self-rated aggression related to serum testosterone and platelet MAO activity in female patients with the fibromyalgia syndrome.

To investigate self-rated aggression in relation to platelet MAO activity and serum testosterone in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS), we administered the Aggression Questionnaire - Revised Swedish Version (AQ-RSV) to 30 female patients with FMS. After correction for age, significant positive correlations were seen between serum testosterone concentrations and the AQ-RSV scores for Verbal Aggression (r=0.36, p<0.