title: Psychiatric symptoms among Turkish adolescents.
abstract: This research was planned to investigate psychiatric symptoms in a normal adolescent population. Four hundred and thirty-four students were selected randomly from three schools of different socioeconomic status. Symptom Check List 90-R was used to evaluate the psychiatric symptoms. The results were analyzed considering the effects of age, gender and socioeconomic status. It was concluded that being female, 15-16 years of age and having a lower socioeconomic status are risk factors for developing psychiatric symptoms.
authors.affiliation: Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cuhadaroğlu
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Yazici
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000296:Adolescent Psychiatry; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011897:Random Allocation; D012307:Risk Factors; D012737:Sex Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014421:Turkey / Q000453:epidemiology