Improvement in psychiatric symptoms after strabismus surgery in adolescent patients in long-term follow-up.

Aims: To assess the psychological effects of preoperative primary eye position and surgical correction of strabismus in adolescent patients.

Methods: Eighty-three adolescent patients with exotropia were included in this observational and prospective study. Patients with preoperative manifest exotropia formed the manifest exotropia group.

Burnout in caregivers of patients with schizophrenia.

Background/aim: To evaluate the burnout of schizophrenia patients' caregivers and to determine the possible relationships between sociodemographic characteristics, symptomatology, perceived social support, and the burnout profile of the caregivers.

Materials And Methods: Subjects included in the study are 76 schizophrenia patients, diagnosed according to DSM-IV-TR criteria, and their caregivers. A sociodemographic form, the Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptoms, and the Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms were applied to evaluate the severity of the symptoms.