KLINIK PSIKIYATRI DERGISI-TURKISH JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY

Objective: In this study we aimed to evaluate attitudes, attachment styles to their husbands and competence perceptions of the mothers towards their children's problems whose children were at pre-school period with no cognitive developmental delay. Method: Fourty children and their mothers were included into the study. The children were chosen among those who were aged between 0-72 months and had no developmental delay which was found out as a result of developmental test. As the control group, another 40 children and their mothers were included into the study. Child Adjustment and Parent Efficacy Scale (CAPES-TR) and Parent Attitude Research Instrument (PARI) were handed out to mothers in both groups. Finally, Experiences in Close Relationship Revised (ECC-R) was applied to mothers of both groups. SPSS20 was used for statistical analysis. Results: According to CAPES-TR results, emotional, behavioural and social problems in the group that were admitted to psychiatry clinic were higher than control group (p<0.05). According to same scale, mothers' self-confidence was found significantly lower (p<0.05). According to PARI results, the score of the group that applied to clinic for over-motherhood reasons was found higher (p<0.05). Likewise, authoritative attitude score was found higher in patient group (p<0.05). Discussion: The results of this study share similarities with other studies which found out that parental child-rearing attitude presents a risk factor for behavioural problems among children

KLINIK PSIKIYATRI DERGISI-TURKISH JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the demographic and clinical data of substance users who were intreatment in Mental Health Hospital Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Inpatient Department. Method: Medical records of substance user patients treated between 2014 and 2017 in Inpatient Child Psychiatry Unit of Mental Health Hospital were examined retrospectively. SPSS 20.00 Statistical Package Program was used for statistical analysis. Results: Ninety-two substance user child and youth had been treated. The median age of cases was 15,4 (SD +/- 1,4), the onset age of substance use was 13,1 (SD +/- 1,4). 68,5% of these case is male gender and 31,5% is female. The most common substance used is marijuana and extacy (62%), the substance user youth have met with the substance around friends (90,2%). Living conditions were found to be lower socioeconomic level (50%). Discussion: According to our clinic results, substance use is an important problem affecting youths, especially at lower socioeconomic level and male adolescents. Our study represents only the clinical sample, so there is a need for more community-based epidemiological studies

Is There a Significant Deterioration in Blood Lipid Levels of Children and Adolescents Diagnosed with Conduct Disorder?

Conduct disorder (CD) is diagnosed in childhood or adolescence and presents itself through a persistent pattern of behavior in which the basic rights of others or major age-appropriate norms are violated. It affects not only the individual and family but also the society negatively. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can be defined as a precursor of CD. Some studies indicate that there is a relationship between serum cholesterol and ADHD. The associations between serum lipid levels and antisocial personality disorder (APD), which often develops after CD, have also been demonstrated. To our knowledge this study is the first to examine the relationship between cholesterol levels and conduct disorder as a diagnosis. For this study the files of the patients who were examined between December 2017 and December 2019 were scrutinized to determine patients with CD. Results revealed that there were 45 patients with CD without a comorbid disease, according to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) criteria. Fasting serum total cholesterol (T-Chol), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) and triglyceride (TG) levels in blood tests of these 45 patients and age- and gender-matched 45 healthy children and adolescents, were compared. As a result of these, serum total cholesterol and LDL-C levels were found to be lower in children and adolescents with a diagnosis of CD (p = <.001). The results of our study indicates that serum lipid levels may play a role in the etiopathogenesis of CD. More studies examining biochemical markers are necessary to develop more appropriate treatments for CD. As far as we are concerned, our study will shed light on new researches regarding the etiology of CD, which is an important childhood and adolescence psychiatric disorder

English to Persian transliteration

mapping of a Persian word that is not readily available in a bilingual dictionary—is an unstudied problem. In this paper we make three novel contributions. First, we present performance comparisons of existing grapheme-based transliteration methods on English to Persian. Second, we discuss the difficulties in establishing a corpus for studying transliteration. Finally, we introduce a new model of Persian that takes into account the habit of shortening, or even omitting, runs of English vowels. This trait makes transliteration of Persian particularly difficult for phonetic based methods. This new model outperforms the existing grapheme based methods on Persian, exhibiting a 24 % relative increase in transliteration accuracy measured using the top-5 criteria.