Publications by authors named "Cigdem Apaydin Kaya"
Objective: Family physicians are expected to have sufficient knowledge and skills in epilepsy management due to frequent encountering with epileptic patients for prescribing antiepileptics, providing preventive services such as vaccination, pre-conceptional counseling, or managing acute health problems of the patients. This study aimed to determine family physicians' challenges and needs regarding managing epilepsy in primary care.
Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out with the family physicians working in Family Health Centers representing the four districts of Istanbul in 2020.
Aim: The aim of this study is to develop a post-stroke home care checklist for the use of primary care professionals.
Background: Home care is an integral part of primary health care. In the literature, several scales are available to help determine elderly individuals' need for home care services; however, there are no standard care criteria or guidelines for the home care of stroke survivors.
The decrease in vaccine acceptance has been recognized as an emerging public health problem and there is therefore a need for reliable and validated tools that identify vaccine hesitancy. The objective of this study was to adapt and validate the Turkish version of the Vaccine Hesitancy 5-point Likert Scale which was originally developed by the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization. The study was carried out in a Family Health Center (FHC) in Istanbul over the period June 1-November 30, 2020.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To investigate the changes in the provision of preventive health services in terms of woman and child health after reorganization of the primary health care services.
Background: The primary care system in Turkey has undergone fundamental changes as a part of Health Transformation Program during last decade. But there was no community-based study to evaluate these changes.
Aim: To investigate the effect of the BATHE therapeutic interview technique on the empowerment of diabetes mellitus patients in primary care.
Method: A cluster randomised controlled study using the BATHE interview technique was conducted on diabetes mellitus patients in primary care. Physicians in the intervention group were trained in the BATHE interview technique and used it with their diabetic patients in addition to the usual care.
Objective: This study aims to examine knowledge and attitudes towards Complementary and Alternative Medicine among medical students in Turkey, and find out whether they want to be trained in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM).
Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out between October and December 2010 among medical students. Data were collected from a total of seven medical schools.
Factors associated with adolescents' smoking experience and staying tobacco free.
Ment Health Fam Med
September 2010
Introduction It is not expected that those who did not smoke during their adolescent years will start to smoke later in life. This study was planned to learn the thoughts of Turkish adolescents about staying tobacco free.Methods A descriptive study was conducted in 2007 with 866 adolescents aged 11 to 14 years.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: This study was planned to investigate the baroreflex responses (BRs) in kindled rats during seizure-free period to put forward new data on cardiac autonomic changes in epilepsy.
Methods: Male Wistar rats were randomized into sham-operated (SO) and kindled groups where stimulation and recording electrodes were implanted stereotaxically into the basolateral amygdala and the cortex, respectively. For kindling process, rats were stimulated twice daily at their afterdischarge threshold current and accepted as being kindled after 10 grade 5 seizures.