Publications by authors named "Meltem İzcı Kasal"
Objective Anxiety sensitivity (AS) is an issue that has gained importance in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in recent years. Family accommodation (FA) is the participation of family members in compulsions and rituals. The objectives of this study were to (1) investigate the relationship between FA and AS in OCD and (2) determine the frequency and types of FA in a Turkish OCD sample.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Antipsychotic drugs are effective in relieving symptoms in the treatment of schizophrenia, but decreased social functioning is resistant to drugs. In this study, the effect of adjunct Psychosocial Skills Training (PSST) on social functioning for schizophrenia patients who receive service in the community mental health center (CMHC) was investigated.
Method: Schizophrenia patients who received routine case management and occupational therapy in CMHC (n=22), patients receiving PSST in addition to CMHC service (n=21) and patients who were followed up in the Psychotic Disorders Outpatient Clinic as control group (n=21), three groups were formed.
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- The study assessed obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCS) in 100 adult epilepsy outpatients, utilizing various psychological assessment tools like the OCI-R, BDI, and others.
- It found that epilepsy patients with OCS often exhibited obsessions and compulsions centered around symmetry and exactness, contrasting with OCD patients who showed more contamination, cleaning, and aggressiveness themes.
- Additionally, OCS prevalence was higher in patients with temporal lobe and extratemporal epilepsy compared to those with generalized epilepsy, and these symptoms were linked to higher levels of depression, dissociation, and schizotypy in epilepsy patients.