TY  - JOUR
TI  - Probable Risk Factors in Children and Adolescents with Neurodevelopmental and Non-Neurodevelopmental Psychiatric Disorders in a Large Turkish Clinical Sample
AB  - Objective: This study is aimed to compare socio-demographic variables, perinatal characteristics, developmental stages, comorbid medical illnesses between children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental psychiatric disorders and non-neurodevelopmental psychiatric disorders.Methods: In this study, the files of 2981 children and adolescents referred to our, childpsychiatry outpatient clinic between January 2015 and September 2016, were examinedretrospectively. The data of DSM 5 based psychiatric diagnosis, mean ages, gender, parentalwork status and education levels, perinatal characteristics, such as a birth week, birth weight,time of speech and walking, frequent comorbid medical conditions such as epilepsy, cardiacdisease and asthma, were obtained.Results: The findings showed that children most often had attention deficit hyperactivitydisorder, and anxiety disorders were the second common health problem. The mean agesand working rates of parents, education level of the mothers were significantly lower in children with a neurodevelopmental psychiatric disorder (n=1502) than children with non-neurodevelopmental disorder (n=690) and no psychiatric diagnosis (n=376) (p<0.05). Youngerage, male gender, the requirement of neonatal intensive care unit, speech and walking delayand presence of comorbid epilepsy were associated with a neurodevelopmental psychiatricdisorder.Conclusion: Knowing socio-demographic, developmental, medical and perinatal variablesassociated with neurodevelopmental and non-neurodevelopmental psychiatric disordersmay help us to develop preventive interventions.
AU  - YULAF, Yasemin
AU  - GÜMÜŞTAŞ, funda
AU  - FARAJI, Haydeh
DO  - 10.14744/scie.2019.96658
PY  - 2019
JO  - Southern Clinics of Istanbul Eurasia
VL  - 30
IS  - 4
SN  - 2587-0998
SP  - 349
EP  - 354
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/367932
ER  -