Publications by authors named "Ayse Burcu Erdogdu Yıldırım"
Changes in Child Psychiatry Presentations in the Second Wave of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic Compared to the Pre-pandemic Period and the First Wave: A Follow-up Study.
Psychiatry Clin Psychopharmacol
September 2024
Article Synopsis
- The study analyzes trends in child psychiatry admissions and diagnoses during the second wave of COVID-19 (September-December 2020) compared to the pre-pandemic and first wave periods.
- Data collected from hospital records included 5244 admissions, revealing that cases in 2020 showed higher percentages of girls and slightly older average ages than in 2019, with notable increases in disorders like major depressive disorder and oppositional defiant conduct disorder.
- The findings suggest that while admissions decreased during the second wave compared to the first, there was a rise in both externalizing and internalizing problems, with a greater emphasis on drug therapy and fewer postponed admissions.
Myths Regarding Gender Differences in Eating Disorders in Adolescents.
Turk Psikiyatri Derg
September 2024
Objective: Factors predicting eating disorder (ED) may vary among genders. This study investigated the gender specific influence of adolescents' social media use, body perception, depression and anxiety symptoms on eating disorder risk.
Method: The sample consisted of 183 adolescents aged 14 to 18 years (mean: 15.
Serum peripheral markers for inflammation in adolescents with anorexia nervosa.
Int J Psychiatry Clin Pract
March 2024
Background: There is a limited number of studies comparing the levels of inflammation in adolescent patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) and healthy controls based on complete blood count and platelet parameters.
Methods: This study is a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of 53 drug-naive patients with AN and 53 healthy controls.
Results: Significant differences were observed for WBC (white blood cell), neutrophil, MCV (mean corpuscular volume), MCH (mean corpuscular haemoglobin) and neutrophils/lymphocytes ratio (NLR) between the study groups.
Aim of this study is evaluating EF by performing neurocognitive tests, and to identify gender-related differences in EF between adolescents with and without GD. 8 Female-to-Male transgender adolescents (FtMs), and 14 Male-to-Female transsexual adolescents (MtFs) (Gender Dysphoria Group, GDG) and 29 boys, 21 girls (Control Group, CG), were tested in a cross-sectional study, using the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST), Controlled Oral Word Association Test (COWAT), and Stroop Color and Word Test (SCWT). The psychiatric diagnoses were established by using the KD-SADS.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The aim of this study was to compare pre/post-coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic changes in mental health-related visits to the pediatric emergency department.
Materials And Methods: We conducted a retrospective analysis of all mental health-related pediatric emergency department visits to a tertiary general hospital between June and September 2019, 2020, and 2021. We described pre/post-coronavirus disease 2019 changes in the use of pediatric emergency departments, such as timing of visits, sex discrepancies, diagnostic distribution, discharge planning, and others.