Investigation of People's Knowledge and Attitudes Towards Childhood Psychiatric Disorders and Specialists Who Work in This Field
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2013
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GALENOS YAYINCILIK
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Objectives: This study aims to investigate the knowledge and attitudes of individuals who have elementary school-aged children towards childhood psychiatric disorders and to determine to what extent they could tell the difference between child psychiatrists and psychologists, the two different professional groups working in this field. Method: The study was conducted on individuals waiting for their children after school in central Konya. A questionnaire containing 29 questions was applied using the 'nonprobability sampling' method over 400 individuals who agreed to attend face-to-face interviews. Results: 92.3% of the participants responded to the question "Who is a child psychiatrist?" saying, "They are medical school graduates who have received specialist education and who are working towards the diagnosis and treatment of children's psychological health and disorders", while 52.5% responded to the question "Who is a psychologist?" using the same definition. The subjects considered 97.5% of childhood psychiatric disorders to be treatable. 62.3% of the respondents stated that they believed that the drugs used in treatment were addictive. The respondents gave the highest marks to the statement "I would take him/her to a child psychiatrist" to a question where Major Depression was defined, followed by the question "What would you do in such a situation?" and to a question where Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder symptoms were defined, with a rating of 50.8% and 44.8%, respectively; and 64.8% of the respondents replied "most frequently" to a question where the symptoms of panic disorder were given, followed by the question "I would take him/her to a pediatrician." Conclusion: We found that individuals with elementary school-aged children mostly failed to distinguish between child psychiatrists and psychologists, with a widespread conviction that the drugs used in the treatment process would result in addiction. In psychiatric disorders other than panic disorder, the most rated response was "I would take him/her to a child psychiatrist." which indicate that the first choice of recourse is the child psychiatrists in childhood psychiatric disorders.
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Child psychiatrist, psychologist, attitude, mental health knowledge
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NOROPSIKIYATRI ARSIVI-ARCHIVES OF NEUROPSYCHIATRY
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Q4
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Q3
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50
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2
