[Postpartum Depression in Fathers and Associated Risk Factors: A Systematic Review].

Objective: The postpartum period is a process that affects mothers and fathers mentally. In this systematic review, we aimed to investigate the literature on postpartum depression and elucidate the factors associated with depression in fathers/men; and eventually to draw attention to the subject.

Methods: A literature search was conducted between April-May 2019 including qualitative and quantitative research articles published between 2009-2019 in Pubmed, Science Direct, EBSCOhost, Turkish Psychiatric Index and Ulakbim Medical Databases.

The determination of infant feeding attitudes among Turkish mothers using the Iowa Infant Feeding Attitude Scale.

Objective: To assess whether the Iowa Infant Feeding Attitude Scale is a valid and reliable scale for Turkish mothers, and to assess maternal attitudes toward various aspects of infant feeding.

Methods: This methodological, analytical study was conducted at the obstetrics and gynaecology department of Sakarya Training and Research Hospital, Sakarya, Turkey, from June to August 2015, and comprised mothers of newborn babies. Data was collected using the Turkish version of Iowa Infant Feeding Attitude Scale.

The relationship between maternal attachment, perceived social support and breast-feeding sufficiency.

Objective: To determine the relationship between maternal attachment, perceived social support and breast-feeding sufficiency.

Study Design: Descriptive correlational design.

Place And Duration Of Study: A state hospital and two family health centers in Sakarya, Turkey, between June to December 2011.

Effect of web-supported health education on knowledge of health and healthy-living behaviour of female staff in a Turkish university.

Background: Once limited with face-to face courses, health education has now moved into the web environment after new developments in information technology This study was carried out in order to give training to the university academic and administrative female staff who have difficulty in attending health education planned for specific times and places. The web-supported training focuses on healthy diet, the importance of physical activity, damage of smoking and stress management.

Materials And Methods: The study was carried out in Sakarya University between the years 2012-2013 as a descriptive and quasi experimental study.

Mothers' knowledge and attitudes about HPV vaccination to prevent cervical cancers.

Background: Cervical cancer which is one of the most preventable cancers is an important public health problem worldwide, and especially in developing countries. The aim of this study was to determine knowledge and attitudes about the HPV vaccination of mothers with 0- to 18-year old children.

Materials And Methods: Written approval was taken from the local authorities.

Parent's knowledge and perceptions of the health effects of environmental hazards in Sakarya, Turkey.

Objective: To assess the knowledge and perception of parents of high school students about the health effects of environmental hazards in Sakarya province of Turkey.

Method: The cross-section study was conducted in May 2009 in which randomly assigned 362 parents answered a questionnaire inquiring about the sociodemographics and a list of environmental hazards such as tobacco smoking, sunlight exposure and skin cancer, global climate change, air pollution, noise exposure, smoking during pregnancy and low birth-weight, exposure to radon and lung cancer, reducing radon, air pollution and cardiovascular diseases, base station and childhood leukaemia, extremely low frequency electric and magnetic fields and brain tumour.The participants were also asked about water pollution, environmental tobacco smoke, air pollution, ozone depletion, exposure to radon gas, soil pollution, noise pollution, formaldehyde related with furniture, ground ozone and pesticides etc.

Turkish parents' management of childhood fever: a cross-sectional survey using the PFMS-TR.

Background: To explore Turkish parents' practices in childhood fever management.

Methods: A cross-sectional study with 205 randomly selected Turkish parents of febrile children 6-months to 5-years from the paediatric hospital and two family health centres in Sakarya, Turkey in 2009. Data explored general fever management practices on the 8-item Parents' Fever Management Scale - Turkish version (5-point Liket scale; 1=never to 5=always) and socio-demographics.

Assessment of resting electrocardiogram, P wave dispersion and duration in different genders applying for registration to the School of Physical Education and Sports - results of a single centre Turkish Trial with 2093 healthy subjects.

Background: The 12-lead electrocardiogram shows a broad range of abnormal patterns in trained athletes. The primary end point of this study was to investigate P wave dispersion, and P wave durations and related factors in different genders applying for registration to the School of Physical Education and Sports.

Methods And Results: From 2006 to 2009, a total of 2093 students - 1674 boys with a mean age of 19.

Celiac disease in childhood: evaluation of 140 patients.

Objective: Celiac disease (CD) is a lifelong gluten-sensitive intestinal enteropathy that is multifactorial in its etiology. In the present study, we evaluated basic anthropometric, clinical, laboratory, and histological features of 140 Turkish children with CD. We particularly underscored the association of CD with other autoimmune diseases.

Munchausen's Syndrome.

Although the differential diagnosis of hemoptysis is extensive, consideration of a factitious cause is rarely contemplated. Factitious hemoptysis is uncommon in children. We report a dramatic case of factitious hemoptysis in a 12-year-old girl.

P-wave dispersion and P-wave duration in children with stable asthma bronchiale.

Objective: P-wave dispersion is associated with inhomogeneous and discontinuous propagation of sinus impulses. The aim of this present study was to investigate the impact of P-wave dispersion in children with stable asthma.

Methods: In this cross-sectional study, the study group consisted of 20 children (12 boys, 8 girls) with stable asthma and mean age of 7.

Serum ghrelin levels in children with primary protein-energy malnutrition.

Background: Ghrelin, an appetite-stimulating peptide, increases in cachectic conditions. It probably reflects peripheral nutritional status and influences nutrient intake and growth. The aim of the present study was to determine serum ghrelin levels in children with primary protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) and to find if any correlation exists between serum ghrelin levels and the clinical presentation of those patients.

Assessment of P-wave dispersion on 12-lead electrocardiography in students who exercise regularly.

Background: P-wave dispersion, an electrocardiographic marker, is an independent predictor of atrial fibrillation. P-wave dispersion is associated with inhomogeneous and discontinuous propagation of sinus impulses. The aim of this study was to investigate P-wave dispersion in students who apply for registration to School of Physical Education and Sports.

Epidemiological factors affecting hepatitis a seroprevalence in childhood in a developing country.

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence rate of hepatitis A virus (HAV) and the socio-epidemiological factors affecting HAV among children aged 0-18 years in Eastern Turkey.

Materials And Methods: The study sample consisted of 226 children aged 0-18 years who were registered at the Pediatrics Department of Atatürk University Medical Faculty for any reason except jaundice between January and May 2002. The presence of anti-HAV immunoglobulin G (IgG) in the children was determined by ELISA.

Hyper-CK-emia in pediatric celiac disease: prevalence and clinical importance.

Hyper-transaminasemia (HT) is a well-known laboratory sign of celiac disease (CD); however, hyper-creatine phosphokinase (CK)-emia (HCK) is not so familiar. As there are reported cases of myopathy associated CD in the literature, we aimed to investigate serum CK levels of children with CD. Newly diagnosed 126 children were included.

Acrodermatitis enteropathica-like eruptions in a child with Hartnup disease.

Acrodermatitis enteropathica-like eruptions, not related to zinc deficiency, have been rarely reported in some metabolic disorders. Reported patients usually had low levels of essential amino acids, particularly isoleucine. Here we report a girl who first presented with an acrodermatitis enteropathica-like eruption and eventually had the diagnosis of Hartnup disease with a normal isoleucine level.

Breast-feeding duration and childhood acute leukemia and lymphomas in a sample of Turkish children.

Objectives: Whether breast-feeding is associated with decreased incidence of the lymphoid malignancies in children is uncertain. We evaluated childhood acute leukemia and lymphoma in relation to duration of breast-feeding.

Methods: We investigated this issue in a case-control study comprising 137 patients, aged 1 to 16 years, with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), acute myeloid leukemia (AML), Hodgkin or non-Hodgkin lymphoma, in addition to 146 controls matched for age and sex.

Serum ghrelin levels in children with celiac disease.

Objectives: Ghrelin, a gastrointestinal hormone, has effects on nutrient intake and growth. Because celiac disease (CD) has intestinal histopathologic alterations and subsequent malnutrition and/or growth failure, we hypothesized that there would be alterations in serum ghrelin levels of those patients. In this study, we aimed to determine serum ghrelin levels in childhood CD, to observe probable alterations under gluten-free diet (GFD), and to see whether there is a relationship between ghrelin levels and the presentation of the disease and/or diet compliance.

Adolescent immunization rates and the effect of socio-demographic factors on immunization in a cosmopolitan city (ERZURUM) in the eastern Turkey.

Objective: Pediatric vaccinations have decreased the incidence and mortality from infectious diseases in children, but adolescents continue to be adversely affected by vaccine preventable disease. The present study was performed to determine the status of adolescents immunization and to investigate the effect of several socio-demographic factors on immunization.

Material And Method: Using the cluster-sampling method, 817 adolescents were selected in 24 high schools (15,000 students) in central district of Erzurum (Turkey).

Seroepidemiology of varicella-zoster virus infection in a cosmopolitan city (Erzurum) in the eastern Turkey.

Objective: The aim of the study was to determine VZV seroprevalence under age 30 and to identify the relationship of VZV seroprevalence and several sociodemographic characteristics of the study subjects. The results were presented in order to design a strategy for vaccination against varicella-zoster virus (VZV).

Material And Method: It was planned to include a total of 568 subjects.

The duration of maternal measles antibodies in children.

The most important factor affecting the success of measles immunization is the disappearance of maternal anti-measles antibodies. In order to determine the optimum age for measles vaccination and to contribute towards the Expanded Programme on Immunization as currently applied in Turkey, we investigated the rate of disappearance of anti-measles antibodies. The study population consisted of 124 healthy infants aged 1-15 months from Erzurum, Erzincan, and Kars.