[Validity and reliability study of sedation diagnosis method comfort scale].

Objectives: The aim of the present methodological descriptive study was to test the validity and reliability of the COMFORT scale.

Methods: The study was conducted at a pediatric critical care unit at a university hospital between February 2009 and June 2010. Study sample included 84 pediatric patients (n=37) receiving mechanical ventilation.

Nutritional style of parents and examination of the effective factors.

Aim: This study was performed to determine the nutritional style in parents who had children aged between 3 and 6 years and the effective factors.

Material And Methods: The sample number of this descriptive study was calculated with the sample formula for unknown population and the parents of 300 children aged between 3 and 6 years who attended a nursery school in the province of İzmir constituted the sample. The sample was reached in two periods.