Turkish Version of the Psychotropic Related Sexual Dysfunction Questionnaire (PRSEXDQ-T): Validity and Reliability in Patients Using Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor.

Objective: Sexual dysfunctions (SD) are very common in patients with psychiatric disorders and may be due to the side effects of the disease or medications used. Current scales cannot distinguish whether SDs are due to psychiatric illness or medications use. The Psychotropic Associated Sexual Dysfunction Questionnaire (PRSexDQ) is a customized scale for screening SD due to drug use.

Emotion dysregulation and affective temperaments in opioid use disorder: a 1-year follow-up study.

Background: Opioid use disorder (OUD) remains a significant public health challenge with high recurrence rates and varied long-term outcomes. Affective temperament and emotion regulation have been identified as influencing addictive behaviors and treatment outcomes in OUD. However, limited research has explored their association with reversion over an extended period.

The Relationship Between Family Accommodation and Anxiety Sensitivity in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

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.

Is Orthorexia Nervosa a Non-specific Eating Disorder or a Disease in the Spectrum of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?

Background: In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in awareness in society that healthy nutrition has positive effects on health. However, obsession with these behaviors towards healthy foods causes negative effects on health and quality of life.

Aim: The aim of this study was to elucidate the relationship between the incidence of orthorexia nervosa (ON) in medical school students and the level of conscious awareness, obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating attitudes and behaviors, health anxiety, and body image to clarify the unclear issues in the literature, such as whether orthorexia nervosa is among the psychological disorders, "where" it will take place, and which diagnoses it can be associated with.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder During the Initial Stage of COVID-19 Pandemic: Effect of Contamination Symptoms and Poor Insight on Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Exacerbation.

We aimed to investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the symptom severity and dimensions of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and how patients with different levels of insight have been impacted by the pandemic. This study included 58 patients with OCD. The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS)-Obsession, Y-BOCS-Compulsion, and Y-BOCS-Total scores during the pandemic were significantly higher than the prepandemic scores (p = 0.

Emotion Dysregulation and Affective Temperaments in Opioid Use Disorder: the preliminary results of a prospective study.

Background: Substance use disorder is a growing health problem all over the world. The coexistence of substance misuse, affective temperaments, and emotion dysregulation has not been studied sufficiently.

Objective: The present study aimed to evaluate the role of affective temperaments and emotion dysregulation on substance use disorder.

Impact of Parental Impulsivity on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder: Do Mothers' Attitudes Predict Symptom Severity in Children?

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a chronic neurodevelopmental disorder that occurs early in school-aged children, and it is highly comorbid with oppositional defiant disorder (ODD). Parents of children with ADHD frequently show mental problems related to impulsivity. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between impulsivity of the mothers and the symptom patterns and severity of children.

Effect of prilocaine and its combination with tramadol on anxiety and pain during nasal packing removal.

Purpose: To investigate the effect of local usage of prilocaine and ıts combination with tramadol on the pain and anxiety levels of patients during nasal packing removal.

Methods: A total of 117 patients who were treated with the Merocel nasal packing after septoplasty were included in the study. Patients whose Merocel nasal packings infiltrated with prilocaine (P group), prilocaine combined with tramadol 1 mg/kg (P + T1 group), prilocaine combined with tramadol 2 mg/kg (P + T2 group), or normal saline solution (Control group) before nasal packing removal were compared for their pain, sedation, and anxiety related to this removal procedure.

A Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome Without Rigidity.

Neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) is an uncommon but potentially lethal idiosyncratic reaction which may emerge in the aftermath of the treatments with neuroleptics demonstrating itself with the symptoms of altered consciousness, high fever, impaired autonomic functions, and muscle rigidity. Although various risk factors have been identified for NMS, its etiology is not completely known. The mortality and morbidity related with NMS could be reduced by early diagnosis, interruption of the neuroleptics used within a short period and aggressive treatment.

The relationship between theory of mind and insight in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Background: It is known that obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) patients with poor insight display more severe neuropsychological impairments than other patients with OCD. There are limited studies of OCD and theory of mind (ToM).

Aim: To investigate ToM skills in patients with OCD and the relationship between insight and ToM skills by comparing OCD patients with good and poor insight.

The Effect of Antipsychotics on Bone Mineral Density and Sex Hormones in Male Patients with Schizophrenia.

Background: The aim of this study was to compare the bone mineral density (BMD) of male schizophrenia patients with those of healthy controls in order to determine the relationship between BMD and hormonal changes.

Subjects And Methods: The study sample included male outpatients between 18 and 55 years old, diagnosed with schizophrenia who had used prolactin-raising antipsychotics (n=23) and prolactin-sparing antipsychotics (n=19) for at least twelve months, along with an age - matched healthy control group. A socio-demographic form was administered, BMD and T-score measurements were performed with a DEXA test, and hormone levels were measured with commercial test kits.

Personality-related core beliefs in patients diagnosed with fibromyalgia plus depression: A comparison with depressed and healthy control groups.

Background: Personality has an important role in understanding both fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) and major depressive disorder (MDD).

Aims: This study considers the question that specific personality features may characterize depressed FMS patients.

Materials And Methods: To this end, 125 individuals were included in the study: 40 of them diagnosed with FMS+ MDD, 40 with MDD only and 45 healthy controls.

Measuring cognitive errors using the Cognitive Distortions Scale (CDS): psychometric properties in clinical and non-clinical samples.

The Cognitive Distortions Scale was developed to assess thinking errors using case examples in two domains: interpersonal and personal achievement. Although its validity and reliability has been previously demonstrated in non-clinical samples, its psychometric properties and scoring has not yet been evaluated. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Cognitive Distortions Scale in two Turkish samples and to examine the usefulness of the categorical scoring system.