Effect of anxiety and depression levels on pregnancy outcome.

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of anxiety and depression on pregnancy outcome in couples receiving in vitro fertilization treatment.

Methods: A total of 102 couples (102 females and 102 males) with unexplained infertility were included in the study. Personal Information Form was used to collect data, Case Follow-up Form to record the treatment process, and Spielberger's State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and Beck Depression Inventory to measure the anxiety and depression levels of couples.

The impact of prolonged face mask use on ocular surface health during COVID-19 pandemic: a clinical, and conjunctiva impression cytology study.

Purpose: To investigate the relationship between prolonged face mask use and ocular surface health utilizing conjunctival impression cytology, the Schirmer test, the tear break-up time (TBUT) test, and the ocular surface disease index (OSDI) questionnaire.

Methods: In this cross-sectional prospective study, individuals who used face masks for at least eight hours per day for at least six months were compared to healthy volunteers who used face masks for no more than one hour per day. Each participant completed an OSDI questionnaire.

Vestibular functions in patients with idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss and its relation to prognosis.

Objective: Because of the anatomically close relationship between the cochlea and the vestibular organs, cochlear function disorders may be accompanied by vestibular disorders. This study aimed to evaluate vestibular functions in patients with idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss using VEMP, caloric test, and VNG test battery and its relation to prognosis.

Materials And Methods: For this study, 42 patients aged 18-55 years with idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss and 30 volunteers who had no hearing and balance problems were included.

Does 3 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging Have Adverse Effect on Cochlear Functions?

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of 3 Tesla (3T) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) noise on cochlear functions.

Methods: The distortion product otoacoustic emission (DPOAE) test was applied to patients who were scheduled to have 3T MRI in the tertiary care center. Patients who revealed emission amplitudes at all frequencies (1, 1.

Assessment of Tibot® Artificial Intelligence Application in Prediction of Diagnosis in Dermatological Conditions: Results of a Single Centre Study.

Objective: To analyze the accuracy of Tibot artificial intelligence (AI) application tool in predicting the diagnosis of dermatological conditions.

Material And Methods: In this prospective, observational study photographs of dermatological lesions with other details of patients having different skin conditions were fed in the AI application for the diagnosis. Predictions given by the Tibot AI application were compared with diagnosis done by the dermatologist.

The relationship between premenstrual syndrome and anger.

Objective: Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) is a significant disorder affecting the daily life of women of reproductive age. The aims of this study was to determine the PMS prevalence and the examination of the relationship between PMS and anger.

Methods: This was a cross sectional study.

Attitudes Toward Violence Against Women and the Factors That Affect Them in Kutahya, Turkey.

This cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted to determine the attitudes of women and men living in Kutahya, Turkey towards violence against women, and the factors that affect them. The data were collected using an Information Form for Women, an Information Form for Men, and the Attitude towards Violence Scale. The study was completed with 2959 participants; 1481 women and 1478 men.

The effect of music on the non-stress test and maternal anxiety.

Objective: This study aimed to determine the effect of music that was listened to by pregnant women during the non-stress test (NST) on the test result and maternal anxiety.

Materials And Methods: The study utilized a non-randomized controlled trial design. Sequential sample selection method was used.

Normalization of Bone Conduction Auditory Brainstem Evoked Responses in Normal Hearing Individuals.

Objectives: Auditory brainstem responses (ABR) are used to evaluate the peripheral and central functions of the auditory tract. Air and bone-conduction auditory stimuli are used to evaluate the type and degree of hearing loss. The wave latencies and interpeak latencies (IPLs) are the important diagnostic data in ABR tests.

Attitudes of nursing students toward gender roles: a cross-sectional study.

Nurses can play a critical role in the development of equalitarian perspectives of gender roles. This study was conducted to determine the attitudes toward gender roles of Turkish nursing students' and to examine the factors affecting these attitudes. The study used a cross-sectional descriptive relational design.

Domestic violence against women in Turkey.

Objective: To identify the prevalence of domestic violence and the factors that influence domestic violence.

Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive research design was used with data from 1481 women over 18 years of age who were married at least once. Demographics and the Scale for Domestic Violence against Women (SDVAW) were used to collect the data.

The effects of breathing techniques training on the duration of labor and anxiety levels of pregnant women.

Objective: To assess the effects of breathing techniques training on anxiety levels of pregnant women and the duration of labor.

Materials And Methods: The study utilizes a randomized controlled trial design. The pregnant women were divided into control (n = 35) or experimental group (n = 35) randomly.

Regional differences of Turkey in risk factors of newborn hearing loss.

Objective: The aim of this study was to discover Turkish regional differences in the risk factors of newborn hearing loss.

Method: A multi-centered retrospective design was used. A total of 443 children, registered to the national newborn hearing screening programme, with bilateral hearing loss, from five different regions of Turkey, were evaluated in terms of the types of hearing loss, the degree of hearing loss, the types of risk factors, parental consanguinity, age at diagnosis and age of auditory intervention, respectively.

Evaluation of the Relationship Between the Air-Bone Gap and Prolonged ABR Latencies in Mixed-Type Hearing Loss.

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the air-bone gaps in adults with mixed-type hearing loss using air-conduction auditory brainstem response (ABR) latencies.

Materials And Methods: Thirty adults with mixed-type hearing loss (study group) and 30 adults with normal hearing (control group) were included in this study. Before performing ABR measurements, ear, nose, and throat examinations, pure tone audiometry, speech audiometry, acoustic immittance audiometry, and transient evoked autoacoustic emission testing were performed for all participants.

Prognostic value of mean platelet volume on tinnitus.

Objective: This study aimed to determine whether there was any relationship between tinnitus and mean platelet volume.

Methods: This retrospective study was conducted between January 2013 and January 2014 in Ankara Atatürk Hospital and Ondokuz Mayıs University Hospital, Turkey, on a study group of 86 patients with tinnitus and a control group of 84 healthy subjects. Mean platelet volume was recorded and comparisons were made between the two groups.

Evaluation of Estrogen, Progesterone, and GCDFP-15 Expression in Uterine Leiomyomas.

Approximately, one fourth of women have leiomyomas. Leiomyomas are benign tumors that originated from smooth muscle cells. Estrogen is claimed to relate as a cause but exact mechanism has not fully understood.

What Is the Audiological Evaluation Time for those Aged 0-5 Years and Older?

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the time taken to perform audiological evaluation under routine clinical test conditions. We also aimed to investigate relevant variables and reasons for increases in test time.

Materials And Methods: The total test times of 300 patients were recorded and calculated using an "Audiological Evaluation Time Calculation Form.

How to interpret liver function tests in heart failure patients?

Cardiac hepatopathy has generally been used to describe any liver damage caused by cardiac disorders in the absence of other possible causes of liver damage. Although there is no consensus on the terminology used, cardiac hepatopathy can be examined as congestive hepatopathy (CH) and acute cardiogenic liver injury (ACLI). CH is caused by passive venous congestion of the liver that generally occurs in the setting of chronic cardiac conditions such as chronic HF, constrictive pericarditis, tricuspid regurgitation, or right-sided heart failure (HF) of any cause, and ACLI is most commonly associated with acute cardiocirculatory failure resulting from acute myocardial infarction, acute decompensated HF, or myocarditis.

[Examination of relationship between level of hearing and written language skills in 10-14-year-old hearing impaired children].

Objectives: This study aims to review the relationship between written language skills and factors which are thought to affect this skill such as mean hearing loss, duration of auditory deprivation, speech discrimination score, and pre-school education attendance and socioeconomic status of hearing impaired children who attend 4th-7th grades in primary school in inclusive environment.

Patients And Methods: The study included 25 hearing impaired children (14 males, 11 females; mean age 11.4±1.

Efficacy of intralesional recombinant human epidermal growth factor in chronic diabetic foot ulcers.

Objective: The aim of this study was to explore the clinical effects of intralesional administration of an epidermal growth factor (EGF) up to complete wound closure.

Methods: Seventeen diabetic patients with full-thickness lower extremity ulcers of more than 4 weeks of evolution were enrolled in the study. Mean ulcer size was 15.

Association of mean platelet volume level with in-hospital major adverse events in infective endocarditis.

We hypothesised that increased on-admission and follow-up mean platelet volume (MPV) levels would correlate with adverse outcomes in patients with infective endocarditis (IE). A total of 108 consecutive patients were grouped into two according to median MPV level (≤ 8.6 and > 8.

Argyrophilic nucleolar organizing region associated protein synthesis for cytologic discrimination of follicular thyroid lesions.

Fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) of the thyroid gland is an important tool for preoperative diagnosis; however, its benefit is limited for follicular lesions. Nucleolar organizer regions (NORs) are ribosomal gene regions that stain with silver (Ag) when they are active. These regions can be used to differentiate neoplastic and non-neoplastic lesions.

On Fourier series of fuzzy-valued functions.

Fourier analysis is a powerful tool for many problems, and especially for solving various differential equations of interest in science and engineering. In the present paper since the utilization of Zadeh's Extension principle is quite difficult in practice, we prefer the idea of level sets in order to construct a fuzzy-valued function on a closed interval via related membership function. We derive uniform convergence of a fuzzy-valued function sequences and series with level sets.

Fragmented QRS predicts the arrhythmic events in patients with heart failure undergoing ICD implantation for primary prophylaxis: more fragments more appropriate ICD shocks.

Background: Fragmented QRS complex (fQRS) is associated with cardiovascular outcomes in various patient populations. Although there were clinical studies investigating the association of fQRS with arrhythmic events in patients with systolic heart failure, the results were conflicting regarding the association of implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) shocks and fQRS. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the association between the presence and extent of fQRS with appropriate ICD shocks and/or all-cause mortality.