Arabic validation of the Body-Esteem Scale for Adolescents and Adults.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to validate the questionnaire "Body-Esteem Scale for Adolescents and Adults" (BESAA).

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study involving 340 adolescents who attend a Tunisian high school. We translated the BESAA into dialectal Tunisian Arabic based on the translation back-translation method.

Anxiety and Depression Symptoms in At-Risk Pregnancy: Influence on Maternal-Fetal Attachment in Tunisia.

Objectives: To investigate maternal prenatal anxiety and depression in high-risk pregnancies and examine their influence on maternal-fetal attachment.

Methods: We included 95 hospitalized high-risk pregnant women. The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and the Prenatal Attachment Inventory (PAI) were used to assess the primary objective.

Tunisian maltreating mothers characteristics.

Introduction: the aim of our cross-sectional study was to compare the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, the social support, the personal history of abuse, and the parental bonding style of maltreating Tunisian mothers to those of nonmaltreating mothers.

Methods: this was a cross-sectional study carried out on the child psychiatry department of Mongi Slim Hospital in Tunisia. A data-collection sheet was designed to collect sociodemographic and clinical data about the child and the maltreatment (type, frequency, and duration), the mother of the child (sociodemographic and clinical data) and the family (socioeconomic situation and conjugal violence).

Highlighting successes and challenges of the mental health system in Tunisia: an overview of services, facilities, and human resources.

Background: Tunisia is a lower-middle-income country located in North Africa with strengths and challenges to its mental health system.

Aims: We present an overview of available services, facilities, and human resources to offer mental health care in Tunisia.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study, where data for the year 2017 was collected between May 2018 and May 2019 by consulting stakeholders involved in the health field in Tunisia.

Covid-19 and mental disorders in children and adolescents: Experience of the child and adolescent psychiatry department of the Mongi Slim Hospital of Tunis.

The Covid-19 pandemic had a major psychosocial impact on the mental health of children and adolescents, especially when the childhas mental health problems. During containment, the healthcare structures were subject to a significant restriction of their activities. The child and adolescent psychiatry department of the Mongi Slim Hospital in Tunis has set up telephone follow-up for patients deemed to be at risk.

Preterm birth, mother psychological state and mother- infant bonding.

Background: The preterm birth represents a stressful situation that can lead to questions about the survival of the child and the possible consequences.

Aim: To examine the interactions between mothers and premature babies in the neonatal care unit (NCU) and assess the psychological state of the mothers.

Methods: Cross-sectional study conducted from March to May 2017 in the Department of Pediatrics and Neonatology of the Mongi Slim Hospital (Tunis, Tunisia).

[Tunisia: nursing practice of cognitive remediation in child psychiatry].

Cognitive remediation is today afforded a significant place in the treatment of neurodevelopmental disorders. A hospital team, comprising in particular a nurse offering consultations in a child psychiatry unit in a public hospital in Tunis, shares its experience with regard to this technique which aims to restore impaired cognitive functions in order to improve the efficiency and quality of life of young patients.

Atopic dermatitis and mother-child interaction: a comparative study of 48 dyads.

Background: Psychological factors and family environment may play a role in the pathogenesis and the persistence of atopic dermatitis (AD).

Aim: To evaluate the interactions between mothers and their children suffering from AD and to look for the presence of maternal depression and anxiety.

Methods: A sample of 24 children with AD and their mothers and 24 matched control dyads participated in the study.

Epigenetics and ADHD: Toward an Integrative Approach of the Disorder Pathogenesis.

Objective: Epigenetic hypothesis is one of the research pathways used to explain the complex etiology of neurodevelopmental disorders. This review highlights the findings of recent studies in the field of epigenetics in ADHD.

Methods: An electronic literature search using Medline.

Parental satisfaction of an assessment unit for autistic spectrum disorders.

Background - Based on the recognized principles of assessment of autistic disorders, the child and adolescent psychiatry department in Razi Hospital developed an assessment unit with diagnostic as well as therapeutic roles. The aim of this work was to examine its functioning and to analyze the parents' perceptions about the unit services. Methods - We gathered the parental satisfaction about the unit by the means of a hetero-questionnaire.

Catatonia in adolescents: series of 12 inpatients.

Background: Catatonia is one of the most severe psychiatric syndromes that might be caused by many medical as well as psychiatric conditions. Catatonia in adolescents is rare and largely understudied.

Aims: This papers aims to examine cases of catatonia among adolescent psychiatric inpatients, and to scrutinize both the etiologies and the management options.

[Management of anorexia nervosa in a Tunisian case].

Background: Anorexia nervosa is a complex psychiatric illness that can lead to severe physical complications.

Objective: This work aimed to study the approach taken by the child psychiatry service of Razi hospital in the management of anorexia nervosa and to compare it with international recommendation.

Methods: We propose to illustrate by a case report and review international recommendations on this topic while undertaking a review of the literature based on a Medline search using the following keywords: anorexia, nervosa adolescence, management, guidelines.

[The Tunisian Revolution in the eyes of children].

Background: The child uses drawing as a language. By reflecting faithfully all that is involved in the psychic life of the child, the drawing participates in the diagnosis and plays a role in the therapeutic management of young people suffering from psychological difficulties.

Aim: To analyze the drawings of children and adolescents followed at the department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, further to the events of the Tunisian Revolution.

Exploring the 7p22.1 chromosome as a candidate region for autism.

A high incidence of de novo chromosomal aberrations in a population of persons with autism suggests a causal relationship between certain chromosomal aberrations and the occurrence of autism. A previous study on a Tunisian boy carrying a t(7;16) translocation identified the 7p22.1 as a positional candidate region for autism on chromosome 7.

[A clinic and a paraclinic study of Tunisian population of children with autism. About 63 cases].

Autistic disorder is a pervasive developmental disorder which starts before the age of 3. The clinic features of autism are variable; the autonomy degree, the speech quality, the mental retardation associated and specially the existence of an organic disease change its clinic expression. A good knowledge of the basic signs is important to put diagnosis.

Association of a functional deficit of the BKCa channel, a synaptic regulator of neuronal excitability, with autism and mental retardation.

Objective: Autism is a complex, largely genetic psychiatric disorder. In the majority of cases, the cause of autism is not known, but there is strong evidence for a genetic etiology. To identify candidate genes, the physical mapping of balanced chromosomal aberrations is a powerful strategy, since several genes have been characterized in numerous disorders.