Assessing physical activity in people with mental illness: 23-country reliability and validity of the simple physical activity questionnaire (SIMPAQ).

Background: Physical inactivity is a key contributor to the global burden of disease and disproportionately impacts the wellbeing of people experiencing mental illness. Increases in physical activity are associated with improvements in symptoms of mental illness and reduction in cardiometabolic risk. Reliable and valid clinical tools that assess physical activity would improve evaluation of intervention studies that aim to increase physical activity and reduce sedentary behaviour in people living with mental illness.

[Level of personality functioning (OPD-2) and the symptom severity of posttraumatic stress disorder - a cohort study].

To investigate the affirmed correlation between the level of personality functioning (OPD-2, Axis IV "Structure") and the symptom severity of posttraumatic stress disorder based on clinical routine data was the main goal of this study. Cross-sectional data was acquired between 2013 and 2016 using random samples of standardized questionnaires in the trauma outpatient clinic of the Department of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Hospital in Münster, Germany. The German version of the PDS (Ehlers et al.

[Is the influence of religiousness on fearful, depressive and somatic symptoms and psychic traumatization overestimated? A representative cross-sectional study].

The aim of this study is to prove if religious faith, spirituality and religious praxis are joined with lower depression, anxiety and physical pain-level and if subjects with traumatic experiences report more spirituality. In this consecutive study, 2508 adults of a representative sample in Germany were interviewed about religious faith and spirituality in relation to depression, anxiety, physical disorders as well as traumatic experiences. Unlike our hypotheses people who are charged with mental (PHQ-4; Löwe et al.

Subtle changes of gray matter volume in fibromyalgia reflect chronic musculoskeletal pain rather than disease-specific effects.

Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is a chronic pain syndrome. Neuroimaging studies provided evidence of altered gray matter volume (GMV) in FMS but, similarly, in chronic pain of other origin as well. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the disease specificity of GMV alterations in FMS by direct comparison.

Levels of personality functioning and not depression predict decline of plasma glucose concentration in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Aims: Psychosocial variables influence chronic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes mellitus. While there is evidence for a negative impact of depression, much less is known about stable, personality oriented factors. Aim of the study was to assess the impact of depression and personality functioning on glucose regulation in patients with type 2 diabetes.