J Obstet Gynaecol Res
January 2025
Aims: Pregnancy brings out significant physiological, psychological, and sexual changes that may lead to sexual dysfunction. Our study aimed to explore common beliefs about sexuality during pregnancy among pregnant women and to assess sexual dysfunction in this population.
Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study between March and August 2022, involving pregnant women regardless of their pregnancy term.
Front Psychiatry
September 2024
Purpose: Social media (SM) has become a common activity for today's young people. It is sometimes overused and potentially results in SM addiction. This study aims to assess SM addiction and its associated factors in medical students and to examine its relationship with dimensions of personality global self-esteem, and social self-esteem.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDiabetes Metab Syndr Obes
November 2023
Purpose: Diabetes distress (DD) refers to the negative emotions and burden of living with diabetes. Illness perceptions are among the factors that can influence self-management and psychological distress in diabetics. This study aimed to determine the prevalence and the associated factors of DD in Tunisian patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The timing of this study coincides with the growing rate of penetration of Internet service across the country. However, it is predictable that any new technology may be associated with a variety of human responses, sometimes harmfull. The young students seem to be especially vulnerable.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSexuality is a central aspect of being human throughout life. People with sexual problems commonly turn to their doctor, because he is regarded as competent and well informed. The purpose of our study was to assess the knowledge, attitudes and practice of medical students concerning sexual matters and to identify the main determinants of the lack of basic knowledge on this subject.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Several authors emphasize the close relationship between self-esteem and athletic performance; such a relationship may raise the following question: by saying "strong" or "without any physical condition", is it a fair presentation of the individual's abilities or he reveals the most fundamental aspects of his personality, such as emotional temperament?
Objectives: To evaluate self-esteem, physical self and temperamental profile in a group of sportsmen, and to look for a relationship between these variables and athletic performance.
Methods: We performed a cross-sectional, descriptive and analytic study in 80 young handball players of the "senior" category. We assessed self-esteem using the Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale, physical self-using the Physical Self-Inventory (PSI), and temperamental profile using the Temperament Evaluation of Memphis, Paris and San Diego Auto-questionnaire (TEMPS-A).
Aim: To study the schooling among school and university students suffering from schizophrenia.
Methods: A retrospective, descriptive and analytic study based on information from medical records of patients treated in Psychopedagogy Unit in psychiatry department «B" of the Hedi Chaker Hospital University of Sfax, during the period from 1995 to 2009. Inclusion criteria were: diagnosis of schizophrenia (DSM-IV-TR) and follow-up duration of at least one year.