Assessing Psychological Disorders in Turkish Adolescents with Transfusion-Dependent Thalassemia

• Published in: Children (Basel) Vol. 11; no. 7; p. 837
• Main Authors: Yetim Şahin, Aylin, Kandemir, Ibrahim, Dağ, Hüseyin, Türkkan, Emine, Tuğrul Aksakal, Melike, Sahin, Memduh, Baş, Firdevs, Karakaş, Zeynep
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 01.07.2024
• Subjects: Adolescence; Age; Anxiety; Autism; beta-thalassemia major; Blood diseases; Blood transfusion; Children & youth; Chronic illnesses; depression; Depression, Mental; Development and progression; Fear & phobias; Ferritin; Gender; Generalized linear models; Hematology; Hypotheses; Liver diseases; Medical research; Medicine, Experimental; Mental depression; Mental disorders; Mental health; Multivariate analysis; Panic attacks; Patients; Pediatrics; RCADS; Separation anxiety; Teenagers; Thalassemia; transfusion-dependent thalassemia; University faculty; Validity; Youth; Istanbul Turkey; Turkey; beta-thalassemia major; transfusion-dependent thalassemia; anxiety; depression; RCADS

We investigated depression and anxiety levels and related psychological disorders in adolescents with transfusion-dependent thalassemia (TDT) in this study. The study was conducted in two pediatric hematology outpatient clinics and included adolescents with TDT (14.8 ± 2.4 years, n = 40) in the stud...