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Vesile Sentürk

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PubMed2005

[Validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Wender Utah Rating Scale for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in adults].

OBJECTIVE: To determine reliability and validity of Turkish form of the 25 item Wender Utah Rating Scale (WURS), which is designed as an aid for diagnosis of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in adults. METHOD: The scale was administered to 59 patients who were diagnosed as having ADHD according to DSM-IV criteria after comprehensive psychiatric and neuropsychological assessments in outpatient clinics of University of Ankara Medical School, Department of Psychiatry. Control groups consisted of 59 patients with depression, 44 patients with bipolar affective disorder in remission, and 145 healthy controls. Subjects who were illiterate and younger than 18 years of age were excluded from the study. WURS was readministered to 63 of the healthy controls after 4 weeks. RESULTS: Principal components analysis revealed 5 factors explaining 61.3% of the variance. The factors were labeled as Irritability, Depression, School Problems, Behavioral Problems/Impulsivity and Attentional Deficits. Mean factor scores of ADHD group was higher than all groups except Depression factor. Turkish form of WURS demonstrated excellent internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha= 0.93), and the test-retest coefficient for the WURS (total score) was 0.81. Item-total score correlations varied between 0.31-0.75. A cut off score of 36 or higher identified 82.5% of the adults with ADHD (sensitivity), 90.8% of the healthy controls (specificity), 66% of patients with depression, and 64.3% of patients with bipolar affective disorder correctly. CONCLUSION: Turkish form of the WURS is a reliable and valid scale in assessing childhood symptoms in adults for ADHD. However overlapping mood disorder items lowers specificity of the scale.

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PubMed2004

[Psychiatric disorders and disability among leprosy patients; a review].

As a gross estimate, leprosy currently affects 11-16 million patients worldwide There are currently 3600 registered patients in Turkey. The social stigma connected to leprosy makes this disease completely different from others. Even nowadays people affected by leprosy have to leave their village or are socially isolated. The physical deformity ratio is approximately 25% in other countries whereas it is more than half in Turkey. The prevalence of mental disorders among leprosy patients is higher than that among the general population. Depression is the most common psychiatric disorder among leprosy patients. Another important finding is that the long duration of the illness and physical handicaps raise the risk of psychiatric disorders. Nevertheless, the results of two studies conducted in Turkey on this subject contradict the results of international studies. Leprosy patients experience functional disabilities that limit their lives and ability to establish relation ships with others both in social and occupational fields. The physical disability rate is high (75%) in Turkey. A review of the literature revealed several papers on the psychosocial aspects of illness but few references to the degree or pattern of psychiatric disorders among leprosy patients. The main purpose of this paper is to review psychiatric disorders and disabilities in leprosy patients and to obtain concrete results.

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PubMed2003

[The Well-Being Questionnaire-12: an evaluation of its validity and reliability in Turkish people with end-stage renal disease].

OBJECTIVE: The aim of the present investigation was to test the psychometric properties of the Turkish version of the Well-Being Questionnaire-12 (WBQ-12) in patients with end-stage renal disease. METHOD: The subjects included in the study were patients with end-stage renal disease treated in Hemodialysis Unit of Başkent University Medical Hospital. The Patient Information Sheet, the Mini Mental Test, the WBQ-12, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HAD) were applied to a total of 60 patients ranging from 19-71 years old. The WBQ-12 was applied for test-retest reliability assessment in 3-7 days after first interview. RESULTS: The item-total score correlation of the WBQ-12's items was 0.43, Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.87, and test-retest correlation coefficient was 0.80. The optimum cut-off score for the WBQ-12 with respect to detecting anxiety and/or depressive disorder was determined to be 10. Using this cut-off point, the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value of the WBQ-12 were 0.87, 0.73, 0.50 and 0.92, respectively. CONCLUSION: This short instrument is easy to administer and may be considered a useful tool for both clinicians and researchers to assess the psychological well-being of patients with end-stage renal disease which has high psychiatric comorbidity, and causes disability in high level.

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