Gender-Related Factors for Depressive Symptoms in Turkish Adolescents.

Problem: Currently more adolescents suffer from mental health problems than compared to the past.

Purpose: This study was designed to extend the knowledge of depressive symptoms in adolescence and to determine the gender-related factors associated with it.

Methods: The study sample consisted of (N = 487) adolescents.

Association between elimination disorders and abusive maternal attitudes.

Objective: Enuresis and encopresis, both conditions are very distressful to children and their family members and it is responsible for significant social and psychological consequences in children and adolescents. The present study aims to determine the rate of abusive maternal attitudes towards children and adolescents with elimination disorders (EDs) and to investigate the maternal psychological and socio-cultural factors associated with abusive parenting attitudes.

Method: N = 180 children with ED were included in the study.

The association between internet addiction and disordered eating attitudes among Turkish high school students.

Purpose: The aim of the present study is to investigate the prevalence of disordered eating attitudes (DEAs) and internet addiction (IA) among a non-clinical sample of adolescents and to investigate the relationship between IA, DEAs, and selected socio-demographic characteristics.

Methods: A total of 584 adolescents (34.8% n = 203 males and 65.

Autopsy evaluation of coal mining deaths in the city of Zonguldak, Turkey.

Background: In this study, our aim was to evaluate the fatal occupational accidents that occurred in Zonguldak coal mines between the years 2005-2008.

Material And Methods: We retrospectively evaluated 42 fatal coal mine occupational accidents in Zonguldak (Turkey) between the years 2005-2008. The forensic records of autopsies referred to the chief prosecutors' office during 2005-2008 were reviewed retrospectively.

Fire-related fatalities in Istanbul, Turkey: analysis of 320 forensic autopsy cases.

In this retrospective autopsy study fire-related deaths whose autopsies were carried out in the Council of Forensic Medicine in Istanbul, Turkey were analyzed in order to evaluate the relationship between the mode of the death and the laboratory and autopsy findings. There were 320 fire-related fatalities constituting the 2.07% of all autopsy cases of that period.