Sexuality and pregnancy: Beliefs and dysfunctions in pregnant women.

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.

Social media addiction and personality dimensions among Tunisian medical students.

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.

Diabetes Distress and Illness Perceptions in Tunisian Type 2 Diabetes Patients.

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.

Alexithymia impairs quality of life in irritable bowel syndrome.

Aim: Our objectives were to compare the frequency of alexithymia and the alteration of quality of life in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and to determine the factors associated with alexithymia and quality of life deterioration.

Method: This is a comparative study which collected 80 IBS patients and 80 controls.

Results: Quality of life was impaired in 75% of patients vs 37.

Validation of the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS) in the Tunisian dialect.

Objectives: The Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS) is one of the most frequently used depression assessment scales. In Tunisia, psychiatrists commonly use this scale in a Tunisian dialect. However, to the best of our knowledge, this scale has never been validated in Tunisia.

Anxiety and Problematic Internet Use in Tunisian students.

Background: 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.

[Temperament and alcoholic behavior in medical students].

Background And Aims: The Tunisian medical student population is very heterogeneous. This heterogeneity is based among other things on temperamental differences between different students and their behavior and strategies to cope with the requirements and constraints of medical studies. We conducted this study aiming: to determine the prevalence of alcohol use in a student population at Sfax Medical School and to evaluate the factors associated with this use; to study the relationship between affective temperament and alcohol consumption among medical students.

[Knowledge, attitudes and practice of medical students concerning sexual matters].

Sexuality 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.

Psychological crisis intervention response to the COVID 19 pandemic: A Tunisian centralised Protocol.

In order to manage the urgent psychological need for support in response to the anticipated reaction of the population to the COVID-19 pandemic, we developed a new psychological crisis intervention model by implementing a centralised psychological support system for all of Tunisia. We set up a helpline which is accessible throughout the country, including those without access to Internet. This model integrates medical students, child and adolescent psychiatrists, psychiatrists, psychologists and social services to provide psychological intervention to the general population and medical staff.

[Depression and coping strategies in the elderly with type 2 diabetes].

Introduction And Objectives: Elderly patients with diabetes have been shown to have more diabetes-related complications, and they are more likely to develop somatic and psychiatric comorbidities including cognitive dysfunction and depression. Several studies have shown a close association between diabetes and depression. This comorbidity may lead to functional disability and quality of life deterioration.

[Post-partum depressive symptoms: Prevalence, risk factors and relationship with quality of life].

Objective: The objective of our study was to estimate the prevalence of the post-partum depressive symptomatology in a sample of Tunisian women, to study associated factors and to assess its relationship to quality of life.

Patients And Methods: This is a prospective study carried out in two stages: during the first week (T1), then between sixth and eighth week post-partum (T2). Depressive symptomatology and quality of life were assessed respectively by the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale and the World Health Organization Quality of Life scale.

The profile of drug users in Tunisia: Implications for prevention.

Background: Despite cultural, religious, and legal constraints on Muslims against the consumption of drugs, usage and misuse do exist. Drug addiction in Tunisia is a wide-spread problem and is destroying the lives of many individuals and families.

Aims: To examine the socio-demographic characteristics of substance users and to identify the drugs commonly used.

Is there a Place for Prebiotics in the Management of Neonatal Inguinal Hernia? A Preliminary Study.

The objective of this study was to assess the place of prebiotics in the management of neonatal inguinal hernia. Boys with a diagnosis of unilateral non-complicated inguinal hernia, aged less than 40 days, were prospectively followed from January 2012 to December 2014. Clinical and psychiatric data and outcomes were collected before and after prebiotics (Primalac AC) administration.

Valproic Acid and Hepatic Steatosis: A Possible Link? About a Case Report.

Background: Valproic acid is a mood-stabilizing anticonvulsant. Hepatic injuries are among the occasionally observed adverse effects of this medication.

Case Presentation: We present the case of a 47-year-old man who had bipolar disorder for ten years and treated with valproic acid.

Post-stroke emotional incontinence or bipolar disorder?

Introduction: Post-stroke emotional incontinence and bipolar disorder are two disorders that involve the dysfunction of brain structures responsible for emotional regulation. The objective of this work is to study the links between these disorders through a clinical case.

Case Report: We present the case of a 43-year-old man without previous psychiatric history who experienced emotional incontinence after cerebrovascular events.

[Male sexuality after external continent urinary diversion type Mitrofanoff].

Objective: To evaluate the influence of continent external urinary diversion type Mitrofanoff on male sexuality.

Material And Methods: Between 1992 and 2011, 140 patients underwent continent urinary diversion type Mitrofanoff at an academic hospital. Among 76 men, 46 were interviewed about their sexuality after this operation.

[Athletic performance, self-esteem and temperamental profile : Which relationship?].

Background: 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).

[Postpartum depression: prevalence and risk factors. A prospective Study concerning 302 Tunisian parturients].

Background: Depression is a common condition especially in the postpartum. It exposes mothers, newborns and couples for psychosocial complications.

Aims: They were to estimate the prevalence of the depression in postpartum in a population of 302 Tunisian parturients and to identify its associated factors.