The effect of the application on the self-efficacy and anxiety levels of mothers: Randomized controlled trial.

Objective: Family health can be improved by making home visits with mobile applications. This study was carried out to evaluate the effect of a mobile application and web-based software called (My Home Midwife), which was designed by the researchers for use in the postpartum period, on mothers' self-efficacy and anxiety levels.

Methods: Home visits to 60 mothers in the intervention group, who are over 18 years of age, who have given birth at term, who have no complications in mother and baby, and who are in the second to fifth postpartum days, were made with the online home visits mobile support application Midwifery Home software and their self-efficacy and anxiety levels were evaluated.

Breast self-examination, mammography and Pap test among Turkish women: Role of healthcare professionals in Sivas.

Introduction: The aim of the present study is to determine how often women perform breast self-examination (BSE) and undergo mammography and Pap test, and how healthcare professionals affect them to do so.

Methods: This descriptive study was carried out with 1025 women, aged 20-82 years and living in the central district of Sivas, who presented to the Gynecology and Obstetrics Outpatient Clinics of Hospitals between January and December 2010, and who volunteered to participate in the study and gave their verbal agreement to the researchers.

Results: Out of the participants, 46.

The scale for body image concerns during pregnancy: Development and validation.

Purpose: This study aimed to develop a scale that measures body image concerns during pregnancy.

Design And Methods: The study administered draft of the scale for validity and reliability analysis to 320 pregnant women who visited the maternity polyclinic of a public hospital in eastern Turkey between February and May 2016.

Findings: The Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient of the entire scale was 0.

Effect of episiotomy training with beef tongue and sponge simulators on the self-confidence building of midwifery students.

This study assesses the efficacy of simulation-based episiotomy training (SBET) with beef tongue and sponge models in terms of the self confidence of midwifery students while performing episiotomy. Third-year midwifery students from Cumhuriyet University in the fall semesters of 2011 and 2012 were enrolled in the sponge and beef tongue model groups (n = 36 and n = 37, respectively). A checklist was prepared on the required skills for performing episiotomy which can be broken into three main parts, namely preparation, cutting and repairing and completion.

Effect of stress management training on depression, stress and coping strategies in pregnant women: a randomised controlled trial.

Introduction: Pregnancy is a period of important biological and psychosocial changes and a period that carries high risk of experiencing anxiety and stress. It is important to reduce the depression and stress that is experienced in this period or to reduce the severity of the stress and to increase the stress coping power of the pregnant women. The research was conducted to examine the effect of stress management training on pregnant women's depression, stress and methods for coping with stress.