Illness perceptions of Turkish Cypriot patients receiving haemodialysis: A qualitative study.

Background: Illness perceptions refer to cognitive appraisals that help patients understand and make sense of their condition. Although their importance in health behaviour and outcomes has been evidenced, less is known about cultural influences on mental representations of kidney failure amongst patients receiving haemodialysis in different settings.

Objective: To explore the illness perceptions of Turkish patients receiving haemodialysis in North Cyprus (Turkish Cypriots).

The association between pain and sleep in fibromyalgia.

To clarify the association between pain and sleep in fibromyalgia.  Methods: Electronic databases, including PsycINFO, the Cochrane database for systematic reviews, PubMed, EMBASE, and Ovid were searched to identify eligible articles. Databases independently screened and  the quality of evidence using a reliable and valid quality assessment tool was assessed.