Sociodemographic and psychopathologic characteristics of people who lives in garbage houses in Sivas

By the aim of this study, sociodemographic and psychopathologic characteristics of people who live in garbage houses in Sivas will be investigated. Results will be discussed in the light of acquired findings by analyzing hoarding behaviors of people who live in garbage houses, as well as the correlation between psychopathologic characteristics and living environments thereof. Also, according to variations, the manners of evaluating the living environments of people who live in garbage houses and the differentiation status of their psychopathologic characteristics were investigated. The target population of the study consists of 30 people who live in garbage houses in Sivas province and districts thereof. The sample of this study consists of people who lived in garbage houses in Sivas province and districts thereof in 2016-2019, who agreed to take part in this study and who were suitable for the study criteria. The sample thereof were determined by interviews made with Community Mental Health Center in Sivas, General Directorate of Environmental Management in Sivas and Sivas Provincial Directorate of Family and Social Policies. Sociodemographic Data Sheet, Hoarding Inventory-Revised Form, Assessment Scale of Living Environment, SCL-90-R Symptom Screening Scale which were prepared by researcher as data collection tool were used. The collected data from the sample group were coded, then transferred to SPSS 21 program and the data were analyzed. It was determined that the data were normally distributed, and among parametric tests, t-test was used with "One-Way Anova" technique. In order to detect significant values in variance analysis, the uniformity of data was examined and Tukey Test with Games-Howell test were applied. For the correlation of the scores obtained from Hoarding Inventory-Revised Form, Assessment Scale of Living Environment and SCL-90-R Symptom Screening Scale, Pearson Moments Correlation Coefficient was examined. As a result of the study, it was determined that there were 13 people who qualified their houses as moderately messy and dirty house (garbage house) and 8 people who qualified their houses as highly messy and dirty house. A significantly positive correlation was determined between Obsessive Compulsive Symptoms and Difficulty in Disposal and between Paranoid Ideation and Acquisition/Excision. A significantly negative correlation was found between Psychoticism and Pile of Belongings, while a significantly positive correlation was determined between Psychoticism and Acquisition/Excision and Difficulty in Disposal. In conclusion, it was determined that there was a significantly positive correlation between BE-GGF and Assessment Scale of Living Environment. Key words: Garbage house, hoarding, living environment