Evaluation of health anxiety in adults admitting to primary healthcare institutions.

Objective: Health anxiety is defined as the negative over-interpretation of the usual physical sensations, although the person does not have any physical illness. The study aims to evaluate the health anxiety levels of individuals over the age of 18 who admit to primary healthcare institutions in Eskisehir and the factors that may be associated with it.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional study.

Relationship between Mental Disorders and Optimism in a Community-Based Sample of Adults.

Optimism should be included in efforts to protect mental health, as it can provide cognitive resources. Optimism also reduces the negative effects of stressful life events associated with the occurrence and recurrence of mental disorders. This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between mental disorders and optimism in a community-based sample of adults.

Turkish Version of the Test Your Memory (TYM-TR) as a Screening Tool in Memory Clinics.

Introduction: This study compared the Turkish version of Test Your Memory (TYM) MMSE (Mini-Mental State Examination) and CDT (Clock Drawing Test) in patients with neurocognitive disorder.

Methods: After a thorough medical workup, patients with a diagnosis of neurocognitive disorder were enrolled. A cross-sectional design was used to compare the TYM results with those of MMSE and CDT.

The association between repeat number in C9orf72 and phenotypic variability in Turkish patients with frontotemporal lobar degeneration.

Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) describes a group of progressive brain disorders. The expansion of a noncoding GGGGCC (GC) hexanucleotide repeat in the C9orf72 gene is a major cause of both familial FTLD and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of C9orf72 GC-repeat expansion in a Turkish population with FTLD and to determine its effects on the phenotype.

Violence and related factors among high school students in semirural areas of Eskisehir.

Objective: The aim of the study was to determine the frequency of violence-related behaviors and related factors at school or school environment among high school students educated in the semirural areas of Eskisehir.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. The sample comprised 1465 high school students.

Test your memory-Turkish version (TYM-TR): reliability and validity study of a cognitive screening test.

Background/aim: The test your memory (TYM) is reported to be a sensitive cognitive function assessment scale for people with dementia. The aim of the present study was to investigate the reliability and validity of an adapted Turkish version of the TYM (TYM-TR) among Turkish dementia patients.

Materials And Methods: The TYM-TR was given to 59 patients with dementia aged 60+ and 336 normal controls aged 23-75+.

Executive function in parents of patients with familial versus sporadic bipolar disorder.

Objective: Studies investigating the cognitive function of healthy relatives of patients with bipolar disorder are conflicting, and the neurocognitive profile of relatives of bipolar disorder probands is still unclear. We aimed to evaluate executive function in unaffected parents of familial and sporadic patients with bipolar disorder.

Methods: The study included 24 unaffected familial parents (FP) of patients with bipolar disorder, 26 unaffected sporadic parents (SP) of patients with bipolar disorder and 26 controls matched with the parents for gender, age and duration of education (76 subjects in total).

The first report of a patient with probable variant creutzfeldt-jakob disease in Turkey.

Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) was first reported in the UK in 1996. Here, we report the first Turkish case of vCJD. A 47-year-old man, who has never lived outside of Turkey and had had no transfusion, was admitted to the University Hospital with speech disorder, cognitive decline and ataxia following depression, irritability, and personality change.

The effects of infertility on sexual functions and dyadic adjustment in couples that present for infertility treatment.

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the effects of infertility on sexual functions and dyadic adjustment in infertile couples that seek infertility treatment.

Materials And Methods: The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Golombok-Rust Inventory of Sexual Satisfaction (GRISS), and Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS) were administered to the infertility group (n = 220) and control group (n = 110). None of the study participants had an Axis I psychiatric disorder.

Investigation of association between Angiotensin-converting enzyme gene insertion/deletion polymorphism frequency in Turkish patients with schizophrenia.

Aim: the insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism of the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) gene is of increasing interest in etiology and treatment of various neuropsychiatric disorders. The present study aimed at detecting the incidence of ACE gene I/D polymorphism in patients with schizophrenia living in the Eskisehir region (Turkey) and also at determining whether this illness could be associated to ACE gene I/D polymorphism and serum ACE concentrations.

Methods: in our study, genomic DNA was studied in a total of 237 individuals, 132 of them having been diagnosed as patients with schizophrenia and 105 of them being used as control subjects.

An analysis of changes in cerebral blood flood velocities in depressive pseudo-dementia and Alzheimer disease patients.

Background: Patients with pseudo-dementia are at particular risk of being labeled as Alzheimer dementia. We thus need better diagnostic methods. In this study, we evaluated the cerebral reactivity of the posterior cerebral arteries (PCAs) during visual stimulation by transcranial Doppler ultrasonography.

[Comparison of patients with schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and schizophrenia with accompanying obsessive-compulsive symptoms].

Objective: The present study aimed to determine if schizophrenic patients with OC-symptoms represent a subtype of schizophrenia and to evaluate the differences between schizophrenic patients with OC symptoms and OCD patients.

Methods: The study included 20 patients diagnosed with OCD, 40 schizophrenic patients, and 20 schizophrenic patients with OC symptoms. While the distribution and the severity of psychotic symptoms in the OC-schizophrenia group were compared to those of the schizophrenic patients, and while the distribution and severity of obsessive-compulsive symptoms of the OC-schizophrenia group were compared to OCD patients, all 3 groups were compared to each other in terms of demographic data and other clinical characteristics.

[Development of a questionnaire to assess inter-episode functioning in bipolar disorder: Bipolar Disorder Functioning Questionnaire].

Objective: Even though quality of life and functioning are topics that are point of interest, they are not assessed adequately in mood disorders. In this study, it is aimed to develop a functioning assessment scale in bipolar disorder.

Method: Bipolar Disorder Functioning Questionnaire (BDFQ) is developed by the Scientific Section for Mood Disorders of the Psychiatric Association of Turkey.

Simultaneous sudden infant death syndrome.

The simultaneous sudden deaths of twins rarely occur and therefore it has received limited attention in the medical literature. When the deaths of the twins meet the defined criteria for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) independently and take place within the same 24 h range it can be called as simultaneous SIDS (SSIDS). The case(s): Twin girls (3.

A gender-oriented comparison between the mental health profiles of Bulgarian immigrants forcibly migrated to Turkey and the native population 15 years after migration.

Unlabelled: Background. The considerable problem of the migration of people, mainly from developing or undeveloped countries to developed countries, is a worldwide issue. The aims of this study were to compare, according to gender, scores obtained pertaining to mental symptom distributions of Bulgarian immigrants arriving in one city of west Turkey in 1989 with those of native-born citizens, as well as to the scores obtained from the scales of anxiety, hopelessness, job and life satisfaction.

Gender differences in psychological effect of the August 1999 earthquake in Turkey.

Disasters traumatically expose normal populations to severe threats to life, deaths of relatives and massive environmental destruction. Epidemiological studies found that women would be more vulnerable to disaster than men. In this study, we examined gender differences in short-term psychological effect of the 1999 earthquake in Turkey on adult survivors.

[Tobacco, alcohol and substance use prevalence among elementary and secondary school students in nine cities of Turkey].

Objective: Previous studies in Turkey regarding substance use have failed to take into consideration the elementary school students. The purpose of the present study is to determine prevalence of tobacco, alcohol, and substance use among elementary and secondary school students in Turkey.

Method: The study was conducted in 9 big cities that were selected from different geographic regions of Turkey.

[Evaluation of mental health services in primary health care settings in the city centre of Eskişehir].

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the proportion of cases thought to have a mental disorder, and/or proposed treatment. Additionally, we assessed the relationship between age and sex regarding mental disorders, and the treatments recommended to patients diagnosed as mentally ill by their physicians.

Method: During a one year period the out-patient polyclinic registration lists of 313,139 patients attending primary health care clinics in the centre of Eskişehir were scanned by the researchers.