Adaptation of the Attitudes Toward Motherhood Scale to Turkish: Reliability and Validity Study.

Background: The aim of this study is to investigate the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Attitudes Toward Motherhood Scale. Attitudes Toward Motherhood Scale was developed by Sockol et al to evaluate cognitive distortions and attitudes toward motherhood during pregnancy and the postpartum period.

Methods: The sample of this study consisted of 223 pregnant women and 138 postpartum women.

Investigating traumatic memory integration in people with and without post-traumatic stress disorder using the event-cueing paradigm.

Poor integration and landmark views make opposing claims regarding the relationship between post-traumatic stress symptoms and trauma memory integration. This study tested these approaches using an event cluster paradigm. In total, 126 participants ( = 61;  = 65) remembered memories from the same story as trauma, positive and neutral memories and reported whether each memory was directly retrieved or generated.

Anxiety Sensitivity and Its Relation to Anxiety in Multiple Sclerosis.

Background: The role of anxiety sensitivity in the occurrence of clinical anxiety symptoms that accompany medical diseases is increasingly well understood. This study aimed to investigate the role of anxiety sensitivity in the occurrence of clinical anxiety symptoms in multiple sclerosis patients.

Methods: This cross-sectional research was conducted on 105 multiple sclerosis patients aged between 18 and 65 years.

Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor - 173 G/C Polymorphism is Associated With The Age of Onset and Insight in Schizophrenia in the Turkish Population.

Objective: To evaluate the genetic variant in the macrophage migration inhibitory factor () -173 G/C in patients with schizophrenia (SCZ) by comparing genotype distributions of -173 G/C between patients and healthy controls considering clinical parameters.

Methods: A sample of 118 patients with SCZ and 100 healthy volunteers were included in the study. The patients were evaluated with some scales in terms of clinical features (symptom severity, level of insight, age of onset, and treatment resistance).

Posttraumatic growth and its correlates in primary caregivers of schizophrenic patients.

Context: The concept of posttraumatic growth (PTG) is important to focus on positive outcomes of a challenging process like caregiving.

Aims: The aim of the present study is to investigate the factors inclusively considered to be related to PTG in primary caregivers of schizophrenic patients.

Settings And Design: This cross-sectional study was conducted with caregivers of patients with schizophrenia between January 2013 and February 2014 at a mental health hospital.

Psychiatric Comorbidity, Sexual Dysfunction, and Quality of Life in Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis: A Case-Control Study.

Introduction: Due to disabilities caused by the disease and the requirement of dialysis, end-stage renal disease (ESRD) is frequently comorbid with psychiatric disorders, adversely affects quality of life, and causes significant sexual dysfunction (SD). We aimed to investigate the psychiatric comorbidity, quality of life, depression and anxiety levels, and SD in ESRD patients undergoing hemodialysis.

Methods: Forty-nine patients undergoing hemodialysis treatment in a dialysis center and 44 non-ESRD control subjects selected with snowball sampling were enrolled in the study.

The Seven Sleepers: a folie à deux case originating from a religious-cultural belief.

Folie à deux is an uncommon psychiatric entity characterized by the transfer of delusional ideas and/or abnormal behavior from one person to another, or many others, who are in close contact with the primarily affected patient. In this paper we present a case of folie à deux, involving a married couple who suffered from a shared psychotic disorder with delusional interpretations of specific suras of the Koran. These mystical delusions were derived from the Anatolian legend of The Seven Sleepers.