title: Psychiatric symptoms of adolescents reared in an orphanage in Ankara.
abstract: This study compared male adolescents in an orphanage with adolescents raised by their families in terms of psychiatric symptoms, using the Brief Symptom Inventory. Anxiety, depression, negative self, hostility, and Global Severity Index points were significantly higher in adolescents in the orphanage, although they did not reach pathological levels except with respect to hostility. Adolescents reared in orphanages scored high points for hostility, reaching pathological levels.
authors: Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
authors: Nuray
authors: N
authors: Kanbur
authors: Zeynep
authors: Z
authors: Tüzün
authors: Orhan
authors: O
authors: Derman
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000299:Adolescent, Institutionalized / Q000523:psychology*; D002674:Child, Institutionalized / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D019372:Orphanages; D011594:Psychometrics; D014421:Turkey