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A 6-month study of postpartum depression and related factors in Athens Greece.
Compr Psychiatry
July 2008
Department of Psychiatry, Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece.
Introduction: Postpartum depression (PPD) affects women in various sociocultural environments around the world during a sensitive period of their lives. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence and time course of PPD in a Greek urban environment as well as possible relations of PPD with certain clinical and sociodemographic factors.
Method: The study was performed on a sample of 402 women that were recruited from a university obstetric clinic in Athens, Greece, during the first 24 hours after delivery.
Psychological factors influencing the surgical patients' consent to regional anaesthesia.
Acta Anaesthesiol Scand
August 1994
Department of Anaesthesiology, Laikon General Hospital, Athens, Greece.
To investigate the preoperative attitude of surgical patients to regional anaesthesia, 162 subjects scheduled for elective surgery were studied. On the day before operation, patients were interviewed by an anaesthesiologist, using a semi-structured schedule. Topics investigated were sociodemographic variables and clinical correlates, such as past anaesthetic experience, information about anaesthesia and surgery, as well as questions and fears related to anaesthesia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlexithymia, immunity and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia: a pilot study.
Psychother Psychosom
September 1994
II Psychiatric Clinic, University of Bari, Italy.
Alexithymia and circulating lymphocyte subsets were studied in 62 women [36 healthy women and 26 women affected by cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN I, II, III) who were not aware of their status] in order to assess a possible relationship between alexithymia, CIN and immunological lymphocytic functions. Alexithymia was estimated by the 20-item Schalling-Sifneos Personality Scale and then correlated with peripheral blood lymphocyte subsets. The results of our study report an association between alexithymia and CIN.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[French translation of Schalling-Sifneos Personality Scale Revised and Beth Israel Questionnaire, 2 evaluation tools of alexithymia].
Encephale
September 1992
Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris.
The concept of alexithymia was first proposed in the 1960's by Sifneos and Nemiah to describe personality traits originally found in psychosomatic patients but which have since been found in other types of patients (alcoholics, drug addicts, traumatic stress disorder patients, sociopaths) as well as in the general population. Etymologically, alexithymia signifies: incapacity to speak one's emotions (from the Greek: a, lack; lexis, word; thymos, sentiments). Alexithymia is not the impossibility of feeling one's emotions, but rather the impossibility of associating them with corresponding mental representations and thus verbalizing them.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe concept of alexithymia: an empirical study using psychodynamic ratings and self-reports.
Acta Psychiatr Scand
February 1992
Department of Internal Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
In patients with ulcerative colitis, alexithymia and related traits were studied using the Karolinska Psychodynamic Profile (KAPP), a recently constructed psychodynamic assessment instrument, and other measures of alexithymia (the Schalling-Sifneos Personality Scale (SSPS) and the Beth Israel Questionnaire (BIQ)), and other personality traits using the Karolinska Scales of Personality (KSP). The results of these measures were analyzed for correlation. The prevalence of mental disorder as defined by DSM-III was not above normal, and the KSP T-scores were within normal limits.
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