The present study found support for the specificity of a distress-function relationship, with NSSI frequency, gender, emotional abuse, prolonged illness or handicap and symptoms of depression uniquely predicting automatic but not social functions, and symptoms of anxiety uniquely predicting social but not automatic functions of NSSI.
After trajectory classes were identified, one-way ANOVAs were conducted to examine group differences in demographic, paranoid thoughts, psychological distress, executive function, daily memory functioning, emotion experience, emotion expression, and social function.
However studies have shown that gender affects health transition, perceived HRQoL, health distress, social functioning and role functioning in the adult population [ 67– 67].
Quality of life was operationalised in global measures of QoL and measures concerning patient's emotional functioning (e.g. coping, mood state such as anxiety and depression or other type of emotional distress), social functioning, physical functioning (e.g. symptom distress, activity level, performance status, activities of daily living) and existential or spiritual concerns.
The instrument includes questions from Short Form 36-Item Health Survey as a generic core measure [ 19] and 18 additional items specific for MS exploring health distress, sexual function, overall quality of life, cognitive function and energy.
Further, loneliness and psychological distress could function as parallel internal reminders associated with onset, maintenance or exacerbation of pain, and vice versa.
Lung cancer patients experience higher levels of sleep disturbances compared to other cancer patients, and this leads to greater distress, poorer function, and lower quality of life.
1. Variance explained refers to the adjusted R2 obtained from OLS regressions where the dependent variable was the sum of scores from the two severity scales (distress & function) for a symptom, and the explanatory variables were the severity scales.
The three groups differed in paranoid thoughts, psychological distress, neurocognition function, and emotional expression over time.
The exenatide QW group experienced significantly greater improvement than the pioglitazone group in total weight-related QOL; subsequent analysis revealed that the exenatide QW group experienced significantly greater improvement in public distress, physical function, and work.
The exenatide weekly group experienced significantly greater improvement than the pioglitazone group in total weight-related QOL and resulted in significantly greater improvement in public distress, physical function, and work.
