Publications by authors named "Emel Sezici"

Background: It has been reported that kangaroo mother care/skin-to-skin contact immediately after birth facilitates the newborn's physiological and psychological adaptation to extrauterine life.

Objective: To examine the effect of kangaroo mother care/skin-to-skin contact on infants' body temperature, oxygen saturation, respiratory rate and heart rate.

Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis.

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Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the effect of playful learning interventions (with toys, visual and auditory sources) on appropriate toothbrushing behaviors and the amount of accumulated plaque in preschool children.

Design And Methods: The study was carried out as a parallel-group, randomized and controlled study during the period October-December 2018, with 100 preschool children. The preschool students were randomly assigned to an intervention and a control group.

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This study aimed to reduce maternal anxiety scores and heart rates, increase oxygen saturation linked to vaccination processes with Skin-to skin contact (SSC). The study is a prospective, multicenter, paired, randomized, controlled trial. This experimental study was conducted with a pretest-posttest control group.

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Aims And Objective: This study aimed to compare the effects of swinging and playing of white noise on the crying and sleeping durations of colicky babies.

Background: Infantile colic (IC) is one of the most common reasons for doctor visits among babies younger than 3 months. One of five babies older than 3 months also experiences IC.

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Purpose: Play therapy is a nursing intervention employed in multidisciplinary approaches to develop the social, emotional, and behavioral skills of children. In this study, we aim to determine the effects of play therapy on the social, emotional, and behavioral skills of pre-school children through the nursing process.

Design: A single-blind, prospective, randomized controlled study was undertaken.

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