Nutrient Supplements for Young Children and Mothers' Self Medication with Over-the-Counter Drugs During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Background: The restriction of access to health services during the COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increase in self-medication. This study aims to examine mothers' use of nutrient supplements with over-the-counter (OTC) medications for their children, including instances of self-medication for themselves. The study also explores maternal characteristics associated with this behavior, the specific medications used, and the reasons for use.

Oral Health Status of Outpatients with Schizophrenia in Ankara, Türkiye: A Descriptive Study.

Objectives: To evaluate the oral health status and denture treatment needs of a group of outpatients with schizophrenia.

Methods: One hundred and eighty-eight patients diagnosed with schizophrenia were evaluated. Socio-demographic characteristics, eating habits, alcohol consumption, smoking status, oral hygiene attitudes, medical status, medications and the data related to dental visit were obtained via structured questionnaire of 45 questions.

Mother's knowledge for environmental risks and self-awareness for the presence of pollutants in her living area in West and Central Anatolia: a cross-sectional survey.

Background: Environmental risk awareness is a key concept to raise awareness and plan future programs for environmental protection. A cross-sectional household survey aimed to find out the presence of environmental hazards next to living area and the mother's knowledge levels about environmental risk factors with their related factors according to district development ranking, and Western and Central Anatolian regions with sampling from rural and urban residence.

Method: The study was designed with household sampling weighted according to population density in 2008.

Professional motivations and perceptions of senior dental students in the distance education period during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Purpose: Dental students are particularly prone to be affected by the global emergency of Coronavirus-19 (Covid-19) pandemic. The aim of this study was to evaluate the professional motivations and perceptions of senior dental students during the distance education period due to pandemic.

Materials And Methods: The data was collected via an online questionnaire, including questions related to students' professional motivation and perceptions, and views about preventive dentistry.

Development and Validation of a Culture-Sensitive Generic Health Literacy Scale in Turkish-Speaking Adults.

Background: Improving health literacy has become one of the most important public health-related goals at the global level; however, there is no clear consensus on measurement of health literacy. Despite numerous health literacy scales available in Turkish, none of the existing scales was originally developed and validated at a national level.

Objective: This study aimed to develop and validate a culturally appropriate original health literacy scale (HLS) to be used as a reference for the Turkish-speaking literate adult population in Turkey and abroad.

The adaptation of Turkish health literacy scale for literate Syrian adult refugees living in Turkey: a reliability-validity study.

Background: Turkey hosts the world's largest refugee population of whom 3.5 million are Syrians and this population has been continuously growing since the year 2011. This situation causes various problems, mainly while receiving health-care services.

Environmental risk perception of mothers and presence of risk factors in rural and urban areas in Adana, Turkey.

This cross-sectional study with an open-ended manner aimed (1) to evaluate the environmental risk perception levels of mothers having at least one child and living in Adana and (2) to determine their awareness of the risk factors in their environment. Of mothers, 30.2% did not know the concept of environmental risk factor.

Healthcare services utilization among international students in Ankara, Turkey: a cross-sectional study.

Background: While international students form an increasing population of higher education students in Turkey, there is limited empirical evidence about their health services utilization. The study aim was to investigate healthcare access among a group of international students studying in Ankara city and identify potential barriers that affect full healthcare utilization.

Method: A total of 535 international students from 83 countries completed an online-based questionnaire.

Reliability and Validity of the Turkish Version of the FACIT-PAL Quality of Life Instrument.

Context: The accurate measurement of quality of life (QoL) among people with chronic and incurable illnesses is essential for evaluating service delivery, understanding the impact of illness and treatment effects, and testing intervention effectiveness. Palliative care interventions are relatively new in Turkey; therefore, it is important that reliable and valid QoL instruments are available to evaluate palliative care effectiveness in Turkish speakers.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to translate, linguistically validate, and determine the psychometric properties of the newly translated Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Palliative Care (FACIT-Pal) scale (FACIT-Pal-TR) for Turkish-speaking cancer patients.

Prevalence of visual impairment and related factors in Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan: a cross sectional study.

Aim: To determine the prevalence, main causes, and related factors of visual impairment (VI) among people aged 50y and over in Jalalabad City and four surrounding districts of Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan.

Methods: The data for the population based cross-sectional study was collected in 2015. The calculated sample size was 1353, allocated to urban-rural strata using probability proportion to size method.

Pufa Index and Related Factors Among 36- to 71-month-old Children in Turkey: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Purpose: To determine the clinical consequences of untreated dental caries among preschool children by using the pufa index (visible pulp, ulceration of the oral mucosa due to root fragments, a fistula or an abscess) and the incorporation of some risk factors.

Materials And Methods: Data were collected via structured, pre-tested questionnaires from 729 parents in Turkey's capital, Ankara. Examinations were performed under field conditions by one examiner.

Oral health status of children with mouth breathing due to adenotonsillar hypertrophy.

Objectives: Mouth breathing is an important health problem, commonly encountered in children. In children, adeno-tonsillar hypertrophy is the main reason causing partial or complete upper airway obstruction and reduction in airflow. This study aimed to determine the oral health status of children aged 3-15 years, with mouth breathing who were due to have surgery for adeno-tonsillar hypertrophy and referred to the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at Children's Hospital of a University in Ankara, Turkey between January-July 2015.

Is diet quality associated with early childhood caries in preschool children? A descriptive study.

Limited evidence about the role of diet quality, an important component of nutritional status, in the etiology of dental caries has been reported. The aim of this study was to examine the association between diet and dental caries in children by using the dietary intake data, anthropometrical measurements and dental examination. A total of 395 children (52.

The unmet need for safe abortion in Turkey: a role for medical abortion and training of medical students.

Abortion has been legal and safe in Turkey since 1983, but the unmet need for safe abortion services remains high. Many medical practitioners believe that the introduction of medical abortion would address this. However, since 2012 there has been political opposition to the provision of abortion services.

A model of complaint based for overcrowding emergency department: Five-Level Hacettepe Emergency Triage System.

Background: To compare ESI Five-Level Triage System with 5-Level Hacettepe Emergency Triage System (HETS), which was developed for Overcrowded EDs in our country.

Methods: Over a period of six days, patients were assessed by a different ED staff everyday using HETS, then re-evaluated blindly by an emergency physician using HETS. Then patients were evaluated blindly for a third time by an independent, ESI-using emergency physician.

Tooth loss and edentulism in the Turkish elderly.

The aim of this study was to evaluate partial and complete tooth loss and some related demographic factors, and oral health behaviors among Turkish elderly. According to recent censuses, elderly population of Turkey is rapidly growing. There is no nationwide information related to edentulism and natural teeth retention among 65-74 year-old people in Turkey.

Risk factors in community-acquired urinary tract infections caused by ESBL-producing bacteria in children.

In this study, risk factors were investigated in children with community-acquired urinary tract infections (UTI) caused by extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBL)-producing E. coli or Klebsiella spp. One hundred and fifty-five patients were diagnosed with ESBL-positive UTI (case group) in the outpatient clinics of Hacettepe University Children's Hospital between 1 January 2004 and 31 December 2006.

Oral health status of the elderly in a residential home in Turkey.

Objectives: To determine the oral health status and treatment needs of elderly residents of a residential home in Ankara, Turkey.

Background: Little is known about oral health problems of elderly living in the institutions.

Methods: Among 216 elderly, 193 of them were interviewed and were clinically examined according to WHO criteria.