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There is a need for a valid and reliable measurement tool that will detect the psychological symptoms of health care workers in the epidemic and pandemic periods that have been effective worldwide in recent years. This study has aimed to investigate the validity and reliability of the Stress and Anxiety to Viral Epidemics‐9 items Scale (SAVE‐9) in Turkish health care professionals. The study was carried out with 150 health care professionals. All participants were asked to complete the SAVE‐9, Patient Health Questionnaire‐9 (PHQ‐9), Generalized Anxiety Disorder‐7 (GAD‐7), Brief Resilience Scale (BRS). The Cronbach's α coefficient was calculated. Also, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were used to evaluate the factor structure. The SAVE‐9 scores positively correlated with the PHQ‐9, GAD‐7, and negatively correlated with the BRS. The exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses supported two‐factor structure similar to the original scale. The first factor consists of five items (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8), and the second factor consists of three items (6, 7, 9). The Cronbach's α coefficient was found as 0.77. The Turkish version of SAVE‐9 is a valid and reliable tool for Turkish health care professionals.

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AIM: This study aims to investigate whether there is a relationship between attention-defi cit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and infl ammation, using hematologic infl ammatory parameters in a large sample of children and adolescents. METHOD: This retrospective study comprises 347 children and adolescents with ADHD between 6 and 17 years of age who met the inclusion criteria as well as 205 healthy children and adolescents in the control group. Serum parameters such as white blood cell (WBC), neutrophil, lymphocyte, platelet, monocyte, eosinophil and basophil counts, mean platelet volume (MPV), and platelet distribution width (PDW) were recorded from complete blood count tests at the time of admission, while neutrophil lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet lymphocyte ratio (PLR), and other ratios were calculated based on these counts. RESULTS: NLR, PLR, MPV, PDW, WBC and neutrophil counts were signifi cantly higher in children and adolescents with ADHD than in the control group. In the ADHD group, NLR, WBC and neutrophil counts were signifi cantly higher in girls than in boys. CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study support the hypothesis that infl ammation plays an important role in the complex pathophysiology of ADHD. In addition, our data confi rm that easily obtainable and reliable hematological parameters can be used when investigating the role of infl ammation in ADHD etiology (Tab. 4, Ref.