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Background: Due to experiencing traumatic and stressful events, refugees are at risk of having mental disorders. The refugees might need to use psychotropic agents to treat mental disorders. It is essential to understand this population’s adherence rate to psychotropic medication. Aim: This study aimed to evaluate adherence to psychotropic medication and the relationship with psychiatric symptoms among Syrian refugees in Turkey. Method: The study design was descriptive and correlational. The study was conducted with 55 Syrian refugees attending a community health center in southern Turkey. The data was collected with General Medication Adherence Scale–Arabic Version (GMAS–AR) and Brief Psychiatric Inventory (BPI). Results: 78.2% (n: 43) of the participants’ medication adherence was poor, and a significant negative and weak correlation was found at 0.01 level between GMAS–AR and BPI (r: −0.37). According to multiple linear regression analysis, the model with gender and BPI was significant, and this model explained 19% of GMAS–AR total points (p < 0.001). Conclusion: Mental health professionals should test the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions that increase adherence to treatment for the cultural characteristics of societies.

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is one of the effective treatment methods which was used in treatment of childhood and adolescent psychiatry. Although the effects and side effects of ECT intervention in child and adolescent psychiatry is similar adult psychiatry, mental health professionals might be reluctant to prefer ECT in children and adolescents due to limited knowledge and negative attitude to ECT. Because the articles on ECT among child and adolescent with severe mental disorders were limited studies of case reports, it could not reach any article which evaluated ECT holistically, it was thought to discuss ECT intervention, legal issue and nursing care in this issue and this review will contribute to the literature about ECT in children and adolescents.

The purpose of this review is to review the studies related to psychosocial rehabilitation programs applied by psychiatric nurses to patients diagnosed with schizophrenia. The study was conducted on the Turkish Psychiatric Index (1) and Pubmed (7) databases between 15-31 May 2019 and 8 quantitative studies published between 2008-2019. The 27-item PRISMA Statement was used to evaluate the reporting characteristics. In this review which was written as a result of systematic screening, findings/results of 8 articles were presented as tables. In published studies, psychosocial rehabilitation programs which applied by psychiatric nurses to patients with schizophrenia; it was determined that there were trainings aimed at improving emotional expression, information technology programs including emotional recognition, psychoeducation programs after discharge, Auditory Hallucinatory symptom management program, music therapy and home visits. Also in the studies; with these psychosocial rehabilitation programs, it was determined that patients had many positive effects such as increase in social-cognitive functionality, quality of life and adherence, decrease in hospital stay and relapse, coping with Auditory Hallucinations, and improvement in emotional recognition. In the studies, it was found that there are limited number of studies conducted by psychiatric nurses in the psychosocial rehabilitation of the patient with schizophrenia and it is necessary to evaluate the results of the interventions performed by psychiatric nurses in this field.

INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study, individuals who have been treated at a university hospital of AMATEM service in the years 2014-2018 was conducted to examine the requested consultations. METHODS: The study was designed as a retrospective cohort. In 2014-2018, the records of the patients (n=1392) who were asked to be consulted among the patients (n=614) hospitalized in the AMATEM ward of a university hospital psychiatry clinic were formed. In this study, sociodemographic characteristics and consultation requests of the individuals were evaluated with 12 open and closed ended questions. In the analysis of the data, number-percentage distributions, mean and standard deviation were used. RESULTS: Individuals who were treated in alcohol and substance addiction treatment clinics, 63.7% uses alcohol, 12.7% uses multiple substance and the average age was 40.87 +- 13.85. It was determined that addictive individuals were asked to be consulted on average 1.49 +- 0.70 times and 41.4% for internal medicine, 22.9% for dentist, 18.1% for dermatology and 13.6% for neurological consultation. The most frequently reported consultation reasons were Caries (22.8%), skin rash (16.0%), infection (13.5%), liver function test (12.2%), asthma-COPD (10.7%), hypertension (7.2%) and neuropathy (6.5%). At least one drug was prescribed to 57.0% of the patients after consultation. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: The holistic assessment and monitoring of physical and mental comorbidity in patients with substance use disorder is extremely important for the recovery and maintenance of health. Careful and holistic evaluation of patients and the collobrative care should be planned in all process