Development and Psychometric Testing of the Fathers' Self-Efficacy Scale for Newborn Care.

Purpose: Fathers' involvement in newborn care positively affects both work sharing between parents, newborn quality of life, and the relationship between father and newborn. However, there is no valid and reliable measurement tool to evaluate fathers' self-efficacy levels for newborn care. This study aimed to develop the fathers' self-efficacy scale for newborn care (FSSNC) and to examine its psychometric properties.

Nursing students' knowledge and practices about COVID-19: A cross-sectional survey.

Background: It is important that nursing students who will be at the forefront of providing health services and be key personnel in the development of public health practices have sufficient knowledge of COVID-19 and related appropriate practices surrounding the outbreak. Thus, it is necessary to update the nursing curriculum for the changing needs in nursing education in urgent public health problems such as epidemics.

Aims: This study aims to determine the knowledge and practices of nursing students about the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hand hygiene and mask-wearing behaviors and the related factors during the COVID 19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study with secondary school students in Turkey.

Purpose: The research was conducted to determine the hand hygiene and mask-wearing behaviors and related factors of secondary school students in the COVID-19 pandemic process.

Design And Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted between March 02-April 022021 with 1284 students who continued their secondary education in a province in the east of Turkey. The data were collected face-to-face through the Descriptive Characteristics Form, the Mask-Wearing Behavior Form, and the Hand Hygiene Behavior Form.

The effect of Internet addiction on sleep quality in adolescents.

Problem: This cross-sectional type study was conducted to investigate the effect of Internet addiction on sleep quality in adolescents.

Methods: The study was conducted between September and December 2017 in three high schools located in the city center of Erzincan determined according to three socioeconomic levels. The population of the study was composed of 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade students in the high schools determined.

Validity and reliability of Turkish version of the scales of perceived stigma for children with epilepsy and their parents.

Purpose: This study aims to establish a Turkish version of the scales of perceived stigma amongst children with epilepsy and their parents by adopting the scales developed by Austin et al. This study also aims to analyse the scales' validity and reliability in evaluating stigma perceptions amongst the aforementioned population.

Methods: The population of this methodological study consisted of parents and 85 epileptic children between 9 and 16 years old.

Mental Health Problems of Syrian Refugee Children: Post-Traumatic Stress, Depression and Anxiety.

Purpose: This study aims to examine the levels of post-traumatic stress, depression and anxiety in Syrian children who live in refugee camps.

Designs And Methods: This descriptive and correlational study was conducted using the Child Post-Traumatic Stress Reaction Index (CPTS-RI), the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children-Trait Form (STAIC-Trait Form) and the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI). The study sample included 1115 Syrian refugee children.

Effect of an obesogenic environment and health behaviour-related social support on body mass index and body image of adolescents.

Aim: The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of an obesogenic environment and social support for health behaviours on body mass index and body image in adolescents.

Methods: This methodological and descriptive study was conducted in a city centre in Turkey. Interviews were made with the Provincial Directorate for National Education, and the schools in the city centre were divided into three regions according to socioeconomic levels; three schools were then determined among the regions by drawing lots.

Effect of White Noise in Relieving Vaccination Pain in Premature Infants.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of white noise as a distraction method in relieving procedural pain caused by vaccination for premature infants. This experimental study was performed at a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of a university hospital in Turkey between July and September 2013. The study population was composed of 75 premature infants (35 in the study group and 40 in the control group) who met the inclusion criteria.

Turkish Nurses' Use of Nonpharmacological Methods for Relieving Children's Postoperative Pain.

Context: The experience of pain is frequently observed among children undergoing surgery. Hospitalization and surgery are stressful experiences for those children.

Objective: The research was conducted to investigate and analyze Turkish nurses' use of nonpharmacological methods to relieve postoperative pain in children.

The Effects of Instrumental Touching on Infant Pain Perception and the Effects of Eutectic Mixture of Local Anesthetics (EMLA) on the Reduction of Pain.

Background: Premature infants, who have to spend the first week of their lives in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), experience pain and stress in numerous cases, and they are exposed to many invasive interventions. The studies have shown that uncontrolled pain experienced during early life has negative and long-term side effects, such as distress, and such experiences negatively affect the development of the central nervous system.

Objectives: The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of touching on infant pain perception and the effects of eutectic mixture of local anesthetic (EMLA) on the reduction of pain.

Impact of symptom management training among asthmatic children and adolescents on self-efficacy and disease course.

Purpose: The study was conducted to examine the effect of a training program provided to asthmatic children/adolescents on disease course and self-efficacy.

Methods: This prospective study consisted of both experimental and control subjects. The study population was composed of children/adolescents aged 10-18 years, who presented at Health Centers within Tokat province with asthma and who were currently using inhaler treatments.

Effect of natural-feeding education on successful exclusive breast-feeding and breast-feeding self-efficacy of low-birth-weight infants.

Objective: The ideal nourishment for newborns with low birth-weight is breast milk. The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of natural-feeding education given to mothers of low-birth-weight infants, on the mothers' breast-feeding self-efficacy level, breast-feeding success, and the growth of the infants.

Methods: The study was conducted in a quasi-experimental way.

Turkish women's knowledge and views regarding mother's milk banking.

Purpose: The main aim of the study was to determine the knowledge and views of Eastern Anatolian women towards mother's milk banking.

Methods: The descriptive research was conducted between March and May 2009. The study population comprised 350 married women aged between 15 and 49 years who gave birth and who were registered with a family health center in Erzurum, Turkey.

Educating fathers to improve breastfeeding rates and paternal-infant attachment.

Objective: To determine the effect of breastfeeding education provided to fathers on breastfeeding rates and paternal-infant attachment.

Methods: 117 couples with their infants with the inclusion criteria: knowledge of reading, writing and speaking Turkish; living in the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus until their infants were six months old; and infants having no health problems preventing the early initiation of breastfeeding. Participants were divided into 3 groups (2 experimental and 1 control).

Effects of massage therapy on pain and anxiety arising from intrathecal therapy or bone marrow aspiration in children with cancer.

Cancer and its treatment are stressful and reduce the quality of life in children. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of massage therapy on pain and anxiety arising from intrathecal therapy or bone marrow aspiration in children with cancer. We conducted a controlled pretest/posttest quasi-experimental study at a paediatric oncology unit in Turkey.

Effects of difficulties experienced by adolescents who have a parent with cancer on their psychological condition.

This descriptive study was designed to identify effects of difficulties experienced by adolescents who have a parent with cancer on their psychological condition. The study involved children of 13-18 years of age accompanying their parents who were receiving cancer treatment. The data were collected by a questionnaire prepared by the researchers, "Brief Symptom Inventory" and statistically compared.

Effect of aromatherapy massage on dysmenorrhea in Turkish students.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of aromatherapy massage on dysmenorrhea. The study used a quasiexperimental design with the subjects as their own control. Every participant applied both aromatherapy massage with lavender oil and placebo massage with odorless liquid petrolatum [soft paraffin].

Reasons for clinical breast examination in women applying at a cancer screening center in Erzurum.

Unlabelled: This study was conducted to investigate the reasons for application of women for Clinical Breast Examination (CBE).

Methods: This descriptive study involved 155 women who applied to Cancer Screening and Education Center of Numune Hospital, Erzurum, Turkey between December 1, 2008 and January 30, 2009. The data collection was performed by evaluation of demographic characteristics of the participants using a descriptive information form to identify the application reasons.

Identification of psychological symptoms and associated factors in adolescents who have a parent with cancer in Turkey.

Purpose: This descriptive study was designed to identify the psychological symptoms and associated factors in the adolescent children of cancer patients.

Methods: The data were collected by a questionnaire developed by the researchers, "The Brief Symptom Inventory" and "The Scale of Social Support provided by the Family and Friends" and statistically compared.

Samples: The study involved adolescents of 13-18 years of age accompanying their parents who were receiving cancer treatment.

The pain response of infants in Turkey to vaccination in different injection sites.

This study was carried out with the aim of comparing pain responses of children who receive intramuscular (IM) vaccination in deltoid muscle versus the pain responses of those who receive IM vaccination in the vastus lateralis. A total of 185 infants were randomly assigned to one of the two study groups. The deltoid group and the vastus lateralis group were vaccinated respectively in the deltoid muscle and the vastus lateralis.

Violence experienced by Turkish nursing students in clinical settings: their emotions and behaviors.

Aim: This descriptive study aimed to determine the violence experiences of nursing students' in clinical settings, the types of violence, and the way their behaviors and emotions are affected after such an experience.

Background: The risk of being subjected to violence among health staff is very high and the students who worked in the same kind of work environments also faced similar risks.

Methods: The data of the study were obtained from the 380 nursing students who were studying at 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grades.

Depression and hopelessness in Turkish patients with cancer undergoing chemotherapy.

Aim: This study aimed to determine the levels of depression and hopelessness of patients receiving chemotherapy. Through knowledge of the levels of hopelessness and depression in such patients, this study could contribute to the planning of nursing interventions.

Methods: The study involved 101 patients with cancer who presented to the outpatient unit of a medical oncology clinic to receive outpatient chemotherapy between January and March 2006.

Turkish children loved distraction: using kaleidoscope to reduce perceived pain during venipuncture.

Aim: To assess the effect of distraction (looking through kaleidoscopes) to reduce perceived pain, during venipuncture in healthy school-age children.

Background: Distraction has been noted to be an effective method to help children cope with painful procedures. In the studies carried out, although it was found out that distraction made with different distracters reduced the pain of venipuncture, there is only one study confirming analgesic effect of distracters.

An evaluation of the hand and nasal flora of Turkish nursing students after clinical practice.

Aim: The purpose of this study was to evaluate and compare the hand and nasal flora of nursing students before and after the clinical practice.

Background: Hospitals are places where infective agents abound. Healthcare workers, relatives of patients and students practising in the hospital medium are often exposed to these infective agents.