Abstract:

Purpose: The aim is to retrospective assess the sociodemographic characteristics, anxiety and depression levels of adult mothers directed to marriage leave. Tools and Methods: 65 adolescent cases were included in the period in which the mother was applicable to the clinic for marriage permit between 2018-2020. The hospital records, sociodemographic data and organized judicial reports, including psychiatric assessments of cases, have been reviewed retrospectively. In order to determine the levels of depression and anxiety during the evaluation period, they were asked to fill the self-reference scale of Anxiety and Depression Scale-Renewed (CADÖ-Y) in order to determine the levels of depression and anxiety, and the intellectual tests of Kent E-G-Y and Porteus Labyrinths were applied to evaluate cognitive development. Results: The average age of the facts taken to study was 16,33±0,307 years. The average age of marriage was 15,44 ± 0,499 years. The average time of education was 5,08±1,461 years. Prior to marriage, 70.8% of the cases lived in the villages, 29.2% in the cities, while after marriage 53.8% of the cases lived in the villages and 46.2% in the cities. According to the report, 27.7% of the marriages were related to family marriages. The average age of children they had at the time they were referred to in the clinic was 4,05±3,701 months. The result shows that girls who marry early and are born before the age of 18 have low educational and socio-economic levels, the age difference between their spouses is too high, their spouses have limited employment opportunities. The development of intervention programs and legal arrangements to prevent early-age marriages can contribute to the prevention of the negative consequences of both adolescent marriages and being a teenage mother.