Psychiatric symptoms of adolescents reared in an orphanage in Ankara
Kanbur, N.; Tüzün, Z.; Derman, O.
Turkish Journal of Pediatrics 53(3): 281-284
2011
ISSN/ISBN: 0041-4301 PMID: 21980809 Document Number: 648842
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.