Turkish journal of psychiatry 

About: Turkish journal of psychiatry is an academic journal published by Turkish Association of Nervous and Mental Health. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Anxiety & Bipolar disorder. It has an ISSN identifier of 1300-2163. It is also open access. Over the lifetime, 780 publications have been published receiving 9602 citations. The journal is also known as: Turkish journal of psychiatry.

Reliability and validity of the standardized Mini Mental State Examination in the diagnosis of mild dementia in Turkish population

Abstract: Objective Reliability and validity of the Mini Mental State Examination in differentiating mild dementia from normal controls in Turkish population. Method The Standardized Mini Mental State Examination (SMMSE) and its instruction were translated into Turkish. A total of 212 subjects with mean age of 77 +/- 6, were recruited for the study. 71 were diagnosed to be demented and 141 were evaluated as normal controls. The scale total score was analysed for discriminant validity using Student's t-test. Sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values and kappa score were calculated for all of the scores between 18 and 29. Kappa value was calculated for the comparison of the dementia diagnosis between the two investigators using the best cut off score obtained in the analysis above. Results Statistical analysis revealed that the Turkish version of the SMMSE has high discriminant validity and interrater reliability in the diagnosis of mild dementia. The cut off score 23/24 was found to have the highest sensitivity (0.91), specificity (0.95), positive and negative predictive values (0.90 and 0.95) and kappa score (0.86). Interrater reliability analysis showed high correlation (r:0.99) and kappa value (0.92). Conclusion The results of this study showed that the Turkish version of the SMMSE has high reliability and validity for the diagnosis of mild dementia in Turkish population.

Reliability and validity of Turkish translation of Young Mania Rating Scale

Abstract: OBJECTIVE The reliability and validity of the Turkish translation of the Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS) were determined in this study, since it is the most common scale used in clinical studies of mood disorders. METHOD Fifteen male and 15 female inpatients who were diagnosed as having "Bipolar Mood Disorder--Recent Episode Mania", were given YMRS by two experienced psychiatrists, while another experienced psychiatrist gave the Bech-Rafaelsen Mania Scale (BRMS) simultaneously to the same patient population hospitalized in Bakirkoy State Hospital for Psychiatric and Neurological Diseases, Psychiatry and Mood Disorders Inpatient Unit 5. The internal consistency of the Turkish version of YMRS was evaluated by the Cronbach's Alpha test, while item/item, item/total, and cross validity correlations were evaluated by the Pearson correlation test. Inter-rater agreement and consistency was evaluated by weighted kappa analysis. RESULTS The internal consistency coefficient (Cronbach's alpha) was 0.79 for both researchers. Correlations of the items individually with the YMRS total scores were between 0.407 and 0.847. Agreement of the interviewers for the items was between 63.3%-95% and kappa values for the items were between 0.114 and 0.849. Correlation coefficients of YMRS and BRMS of the researchers were 0.72 for the first researcher and 0.71 for the second researcher. CONCLUSION The Turkish translation of YMRS was found to be valid and reliable.

[Orthorexia nervosa and adaptation of ORTO-11 into Turkish].

Abstract: OBJECTIVE Orthorexia is a pathological fixation about the consumption of healthy food. The present study aimed to reveal the psychometric properties of the Turkish version of ORTO-15, which was developed to evaluate orthorexia, and to investigate the relationship betweenorthorexia, and eating attitude, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and some demographic variables. METHOD The study included 994 participants aged between 19 and 66 years. ORTO-15, the Maudsley Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory, and the Eating Attitude Test-40 were administered to the participants. RESULTS A 3-factor solution with varimax rotation explained 40.62% of the variance. When 4 items with factor loadings below+/- 0.50 were eliminated from ORTO-15, the Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.62. The remaining 11 items were thought to have statistically satisfactory properties for the Turkish version of ORTO and were collectively referred to as ORTO-11. This version was used to investigate the relationship between orthorexia, and eating attitude and obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Pathological eating attitude and obsessive-compulsive symptoms were related to orthorexia. Women exhibited more orthorexic symptoms then men. In the present study high a body mass index was an important variable for orthorexia, but only together with gender (female), pathological eating attitude, and increased obsessive-compulsive symptoms. The results, implications, and limitations of the study are discussed. CONCLUSION ORTO-11 demonstrated statistically satisfactory properties. Orthorexia was related to pathological eating attitude and obsessive-compulsive symptoms; however, caution should be used when generalizing the reported results.