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Multicenter Study
. 2019 Feb;73(2):132-140.
doi: 10.1080/08039488.2019.1574892. Epub 2019 Apr 9.

The prevalence of childhood psychopathology in Turkey: a cross-sectional multicenter nationwide study (EPICPAT-T)

Eyup Sabri Ercan  1 Guilherme Polanczyk  2 Ulku Akyol Ardıc  3 Deniz Yuce  4 Gul Karacetın  5 Ali Evren Tufan  6 Umit Tural  7 Hatice Aksu  8 Evrim Aktepe  9 Ayşe Rodopman Arman  10 Senem Başgül  11 Oznur Bılac  12 Murat Coşkun  13 Gonca Gul Celık  14 Sevcan Karakoc Demırkaya  8 Burak Onur Dursun  15 İbrahim Durukan  16 Tülin Fidan  17 Neşe Perdahlı Fiş  10 Salih Gençoğlan  18 Cem Gökçen  19 Işık Görker  20 Vahdet Görmez  21 Özlem Yıldız Gündoğdu  22 Cihat Kaan Gürkan  23 Sabri Hergüner  24 Selma Tural Hesapçıoğlu  25 Hasan Kandemir  26 Birim Günay Kılıç  23 Ayse Kılınçaslan  13 Tuba Mutluer  18 Serhat Nasiroğlu  27 Özlem Özel Özcan  28 Mücahit Öztürk  11 Didem Öztop  29 Sermin Yalın Sapmaz  30 Serkan Süren  31 Nilfer Şahin  32 Aysegul Yolga Tahıroglu  14 Fevziye Toros  33 Fatih Ünal  34 Pınar Vural  35 İpek Perçinel Yazıcı  36 Kemal Utku Yazıcı  36 Veli Yıldırım  33 Yasemin Yulaf  37 Murat Yüce  31 Tuğba Yüksel  38 Devrim Akdemir  34 Hatice Altun  39 Başak Ayık  40 Ayhan Bilgic  24 Özlem Hekim Bozkurt  41 Emine Demirbaş Çakır  42 Veysi Çeri  10 Nagehan Üçok Demir  10 Gülser Dinç  41 Mustafa Yasin Irmak  10 Dursun Karaman  16 Mehmet Fatih Kınık  22 Betül Mazlum  11 Nursu Çakın Memik  22 Dilşad Foto Özdemir  34 Hayati Sınır  39 Bedia Ince Taşdelen  43 Beril Taşkın  11 Çağatay Uğur  41 Pınar Uran  44 Taciser Uysal  45 Özden Üneri  41 Savas Yilmaz  24 Sultan Seval Yılmaz  10 Burak Açıkel  24 Hüseyin Aktaş  38 Rümeysa Alaca  38 Betül Gül Alıç  23 Mahmut Almaidan  16 Fatma Pınar Arı  17 Cihan Aslan  34 Ender Atabay  10 Merve Günay Ay  23 Hilal Aydemir  41 Gülseda Ayrancı  10 Zehra Babadagı  31 Hasan Bayar  19 Pelin Çon Bayhan  28 Özlem Bayram  24 Neşe Dikmeer Bektaş  34 Kıvanç Kudret Berberoğlu  20 Recep Bostan  33 Merve Arıcı Canlı  23 Mehmet Akif Cansız  42 Cansın Ceylan  20 Neşe Coşkun  11 Seyma Coşkun  19 Yasemin Çakan  13 İbrahim Demir  41 Nuran Demir  42 Esen Yıldırım Demirdöğen  15 Büşra Doğan  34 Yunus Emre Dönmez  28 Funda Dönder  22 Ayşegül Efe  23 Şafak Eray  35 Seda Erbilgin  13 Semih Erden  34 Elif Gökçe Ersoy  17 Tuğba Eseroğlu  5 Sümeyra Kına Fırat  23 Ezgi Eynallı Gök  14 Gülen Güler  33 Zafer Güles  8 Serkan Güneş  33 Adem Güneş  46 Gülay Günay  46 Börte Gürbüz Özgür  8 Gökçen Güven  46 Şeyda Çelik Göksoy  46 Havvana Horozcu  34 Ayşe Irmak  29 Ümit Işık  24 Özlem Kahraman  29 Bilge Merve Kalaycı  34 Umut Karaaslan  39 Mehmet Karadağ  19 Hilal Tuğba Kılıc  23 Fethiye Kılıçaslan  26 Duygu Kınay  46 Ömer Kocael  35 Esra Bulanık Koç  46 Rahime Kadir Mutlu  34 Zejnep Lushi-Şan  29 Kevser Nalbant  34 Nilüfer Okumus  22 Fatih Özbek  46 Fatma Akkuş Özdemir  23 Hanife Özdemir  10 Selçuk Özkan  16 Esra Yıldırım Özyurt  22 Berna Polat  33 Hatice Polat  43 Ebru Sekmen  41 Mehmet Sertçelik  23 Feyza Hatice Sevgen  39 Oğuz Sevince  14 Funda Süleyman  46 Ülker Shamkhalova  14 Nurcan Eren Şimşek  22 Yaşar Tanır  23 Mehmet Tekden  46 Seyhan Temtek  41 Melike Topal  46 Zehra Topal  42 Tuğba Türk  46 Halit Necmi Uçar  35 Filiz Uçar  31 Duygu Uygun  41 Necati Uzun  24 Zeynep Vatansever  22 Neslihan Gökçe Yazgılı  34 Dilşat Miniksar Yıldız  28 Nazike Yıldız  20
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Multicenter Study

The prevalence of childhood psychopathology in Turkey: a cross-sectional multicenter nationwide study (EPICPAT-T)

Eyup Sabri Ercan et al. Nord J Psychiatry. 2019 Feb.

Abstract

Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of childhood psychopathologies in Turkey.

Method: A nation-wide, randomly selected, representative population of 5830 children (6-13 years-old) enrolled as a 2nd,3rd or 4th grade student in 30 cities were evaluated for presence of a psychiatric or mental disorder by a Sociodemographic Form, Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School Age Children-Present and Lifetime Version (K-SADS-PL), and DSM-IV-Based Screening Scale for Disruptive Behavior Disorders in Children and Adolescents scales. Impairment criterion was assessed via a 3 point-Likert scale by the parent and the teacher independently.

Results: Overall prevalence of any psychopathology was 37.6% without impairment criterion, and 17.1% with impairment criterion. Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder was the most frequent diagnosis, followed by anxiety (19.5% and 16.7% without impairment, 12.4% and 5.3% with impairment, respectively). Lower education level and presence of a physical or psychiatric problem of the parents were independent predictors of any psychopathology of the offspring.

Conclusion: This is the largest and most comprehensive epidemiological study to determine the prevalence of psychopathologies in children and adolescents in Turkey. Our results partly higher than, and partly comparable to previous national and international studies. It also contributes to the literature by determining the independent predictors of psychopathologies in this age group.

Keywords: Psychiatric; Turkey; epidemiology; mental; prevalence; psychopathology.

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