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Background: Psychosocial consequences and post-operative anxiety in patients after fixed orthodontic treatment are important parameters that must be evaluated by clinicians not to effect patient and their parent's psychosocial mood negatively., Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the changes in depression and anxiety levels of orthodontic patients and their parents before the extraoral appliance therapy, and at a 1-year follow-up., Materials and Methods: Patients and one of their parents responded to a series of questionnaires and evaluation scales in order to assess depression and anxiety levels. Two groups of patients and their parents were surveyed; one group that had not yet embarked on the treatment and another that had commenced extra-oral appliance therapy 1 year prior to the study., Results: The 1-year-treatment group scored significantly higher than the pre-treatment group on the depression scale and the trait-anxiety scale. State-trait anxiety inventory scores did not differ significantly between the groups. The parents of the 1-year-treatment group also scored significantly higher on the Beck depression inventory than those of the pre-treatment group., Conclusion: The results of this study emphasize the need for due consideration of psychological parameters before and during treatment with extra-oral appliances, particularly with regard to depression and anxiety.

Aim: Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (PSVT) has been shown to be associated with poor outcome in psychological status and quality of life. This study aimed to assess the quality-of-life and anxiety in patients with PSVT and to investigate the influence of radiofrequency ablation (RFA) treatment on these parameters., Materials and Methods: Fifty patients with newly diagnosed PSVT with electrophysiologic study and treated with RFA, were enrolled in the study and 50 healthy age-and sex-matched individuals. The brief version of World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale and the state-trait anxiety inventory were administered to controls and all patients before and three months after the RFA procedure., Results: At baseline, in comparison with the control group, the patients with PSVT exhibited greater anxiety average scores (p < 0.05). After RFA procedure, the patients with PSVT exhibited significant improvement in anxiety, quality of life and health satisfaction scores. Statistically significant difference between the controls and the patients in respect to state and trait anxiety average scores disappeared after treatment (p > 0.05)., Conclusions: In this study, normalization of anxiety and quality of life is associated with RFA treatment for patients with PSVT. This finding need to be confirmed by larger scale clinical trials with long-term quality of life follow-up in higher number of patients.

The aim of this study was to determine the effects of employee’s emotional intelligence and work-related strain on anxiety and depression. In order to collect data, face-to-face questionnaires were administered to 210 healthcare workers who agreed to fill in the information required.The survey was conducted with the use of an easy sampling method. According to the findings: (1) the anxiety / depression (HAD) variable was positively affected by the work-related strain variable; (2) the HAD variable was negatively affected by emotional intelligence; (3)when HAD (a dependent variable) and two other variables (independent ones) were subjected to a stepwise multiple regression analysis, 45 % of the variance in the HAD variable was explained by the emotional intelligence and work-relatedstrain variables. The research was limited to 210 people working in health institutions operating in Istanbul region.