Quality of the blood donation campaign in the military: A sample from Turkey.

Objectives: In this study, the conformity of blood donation services performed by Turkish Red Crescent Mobile Medical Team in a Basic Military Training Centre to quality standards was researched and the results were discussed by taking the principles of biomedical ethics into consideration.

Materials And Methods: This descriptive study was conducted at the Basic Military Training Centre, Canakkale, Turkey. In total, 269 voluntary non-remunerated blood donors who made blood donation between 10 and 12 August 2015 formed the population of the study.

An intervention study to assess knowledge and attitude about reproductive health among Turkish Armed Forces.

Objective: To evaluate the influence of reproductive health training given in Turkish Armed Forces on recruits' knowledge.

Methods: This interventional study was conducted at the Basic Military Training Centre, Kutahya, Turkey, from September to October 2009, and comprised recruits of armed forces. Data was collected and assessed before and after the training sessions.

General practitioners' approach to malingering in basic military training centres.

Objectives: Malingering can be defined as the abuse of the right to benefit from the health services. In this study, the frequency of the malingering cases in Basic Military Training Centres (BMTCs) and the behaviours and the attitudes of the military physicians towards the recruits who are suspected malingerers were described.

Method: A total of 17 general practitioners in nine different BMTCs in different regions of Turkey constitute the universe of this descriptive study.