Factors Affecting Breastfeeding in Births Given During the Day and at Night; A Cross-Sectional Comparative Study.

How giving birth at night and during the day affects the breastfeeding process should be evaluated when health services are planned. In this study, we investigated the effect of giving birth at night and during the day on the breastfeeding process. In this cross-sectional comparative study, we included 228 women who gave birth at night and 192 women who gave birth during the day.

Episiotomy Skills Self-Efficacy Scale (ESSES): Development and psychometric properties.

Background: Episiotomy is a surgical procedure that increases midwifery students' anxiety levels and reduces their self-efficacy levels. However, there is no valid and reliable tool to assess the student's episiotomy experience-related self-efficacy levels.

Objectives: The study was aimed at developing the Episiotomy Skills Self-Efficacy Scale and investigating its psychometric properties.

The relationship between hopelessness level and complementary and alternative medicine use in patients with breast cancer.

Introduction: Following the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, women may experience some emotions such as anxiety, uncertainty, andhopelessness, and these experiences may vary from person to person. Many patients, along with conventional treatments, can resort to traditional methods to support the treatment, prevent recurrence of cancer, cope with the side effects of the treatment, and strengthen physically and mentally.

Aims: The study was aimed at determining the relationship between hopelessness level and use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) methods in women with breast cancer.

The Effects of Different Breastfeeding Training Techniques Given for Primiparous Mothers Before Discharge on the Incidence of Cracked Nipples.

Objective: This research investigated the effects of different breastfeeding training techniques for primiparous mothers before discharge on the incidence of cracked nipples.

Materials And Methods: This was a controlled intervention study that was carried out between 2015 and 2016 on 90 mothers living in İzmir. The mothers were divided into three groups: the demonstration-based training group, brochure group, and routine care-receiving group.

Mothers' views of milk banking: sample of İzmir.

Aim: The studies on human milk banking in Turkey, has being carried out at a hospital in Izmir province. There are different point of views about milk banking. The aim of the study is to determine the knowledge and the views of the mothers towards milk banking.

Breast cancer risk and early diagnosis applications in Turkish women aged 50 and over.

Background: The aim of the study was to determine breast cancer risk and early diagnosis applications in women aged ≥50.

Materials And Methods: This cross-sectional, descriptive field study focused on a population of 4,815 in Mansurog?lu with a 55.1% participation rate in screening.

Translation and validation of the Breast-feeding Self-efficacy Scale into Turkish.

Background: Recent research indicates that most mothers give up breast feeding their infants early in the postpartum period due to difficulties with breast feeding and the belief that they are inefficient at breast feeding. Using self-efficacy theory as a conceptual framework to measure breast-feeding confidence, a Turkish version of the Breast-feeding Self-Efficacy Scale (BSES) was developed and psychometrically tested among Turkish mothers.

Objective: To translate the BSES into Turkish and assess its psychometric properties among breast-feeding mothers.