AccScience Publishing / EJMO / Volume 8 / Issue 1 / DOI: 10.14744/ejmo.2024.74799
LETTER TO THE EDITOR

The Importance of Parent-Child Interaction in Protecting Mental Health After the Earthquake Disaster of the Century in Türkiye

Esra Demirci1
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1 Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Erciyes University Faculty of Medicine, Kayseri, Türkiye
EJMO 2024, 8(1), 108–109; https://doi.org/10.14744/ejmo.2024.74799
Submitted: 19 September 2023 | Accepted: 29 November 2023 | Published: 6 March 2024
© 2024 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Conflict of interest
None declared.
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