Zeynep Vatansever's research while affiliated with Kocaeli University and other places

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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 yearsold) enrolled as a 2nd,3rd or 4th grade student in 30 cities were evaluated for presence of a psychiatric or mental disorder by a Sociodemograph...
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Aim: To determine the prevalence of affective disorders in Turkey among a representative sample of Turkish population. Methods: This study was conducted as a part of the “The Epidemiology of Childhood Psychopathology in Turkey” (EPICPAT-T) Study, which was designed by the Turkish Association of Child and Adolescent Mental Health. The inclusion cri...
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Type I diabetes mellitus is the most common endocrinologic disorder affecting pediatric patients. Diet regimen adaptations in patients with diabetes may result in focusing on only diet and weight control, which causes eating disorders more often in these patients. Diabulimia is an eating disorder specific to patients with diabetes characterized by...
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common disorders in childhood which deficits of inattention, hyperactivity and impulsive behavior. Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder is characterized by severe recurrent temper outbursts that are inconsistent with developmental level and manifest verbally or behaviorally. The d...
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Attention de cit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common disorders in childhood which de cits of inattention, hyperactivity and impulsive behavior. Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder is characterized by severe recurrent temper outbursts that are inconsistent with developmental level and manifest verbally or behaviorally. The dis...

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... Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a disorder characterized by a significant fear or anxiety that causes a person to endure with chronic avoidance and/or intense anxiety in one or more social situations that may be evaluated by others [14]. The mean age of onset is 13-18 years, and the lifetime prevalence is known to be between 2.4% and 13.7% [15][16][17][18]. SAD is a disorder that predisposes to negative life experiences [19,20]. ...
... The recent findings of the researches conducted in Turkey in the field of children's mental health, indicate that, the level of depressive disorders among children is at high level (Karaçetin et al., 2018). Sağar (2018), in his study on university students, indicates that mood disorders and moderate to high levels of depression exist, prevalently. ...
... In the validity and reliability study of the scale in the Turkish population, the diagnostic validity scores for each psychopathology were calculated separately and ranged from 0.67 to 1. It has been a widely used instrument and Turkish version has been used in several clinical and national epidemiological studies (Karacetin et al., 2018;Ercan et al., 2019;Coşkun et al. 2020;Mutluer et al., 2022). ...
... Furthermore, patients with T1DM are treated via lifelong insulin administration which could adversely result in weight gain [4]. Recent studies have coined a new term, 'Diabulimia' which refers to the limitation or skipping of insulin doses by patients with T1DM, commonly observed among adolescents, with the objective of weight control [5]. This is further reinforced by De Paoli et al. findings, which concluded that insulin restriction is a DEB among patients with T1DM. ...