Publications by authors named "Figen Isık Esenay"

Aim: Nurses responsible for the care of children in the emergency department must be aware of the case profile of the pandemic era, better prepare for developing crises, and identify preventive services. The study aims to determine the pediatric emergency cases admitted during the pandemic and compare them to those during the pre-pandemic period.

Methods: The current study was designed as a single-center, retrospective, cross-sectional, and descriptive research.

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Objectives: This systematic review was conducted to examine the available evidence on the effects of distraction methods during venous blood sampling on pain levels in school-age children.

Design: A systematic review.

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Objective: A pediatric emergency department deals with a vast number of patients and a high load of emergent/high-priority healthcare practices. Therefore, at times, it is possible to experience missed nursing care in this department. This study aims to ascertain the types of and reasons for missed nursing care cases in pediatric emergency departments in Turkey.

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Background: Children presenting to hospitals for healthcare are often exposed to venous blood draw procedures which cause significant pain and stress for children.

Objectives: Tactile stimulation and active distraction methods can be used during procedural pain management in children. This study was conducted to determine and compare the effects of tactile stimulation and active distraction methods on levels of pain and anxiety during venous blood draw procedure in children.

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Purpose: This study was conducted to determine compassion fatigue and burnout in nurses working in the pediatric emergency department (PED) during the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey.

Design And Methods: This descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted with 164 nurses working in the PED and following the social media platforms of the Emergency Nurses Association between September 1, 2020, and January 1, 2021. Data were collected using the online survey method with the Descriptive Data Form, Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), and Compassion Fatigue-Short Scale (CF-SS).

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Background: Enriching the undergraduate nursing main courses innovative approaches such as flipped classroom method, which may aid improving students' metacognitive learning strategies, are regarded to be very important in terms of enhancing critical thinking and problem-solving skills in nursing care.

Aim: This study aimed to determine if there were significant differences in performance and critical thinking skills of nursing students who were taught using the flipped classroom method versus those who were taught using the online traditional learning approach. Another aim was for students to describe their opinions of using the flipped classroom method.

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Purpose: The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of concealing the hydration fluid bottle in order to reduce the experience of anticipatory nausea and vomiting before chemotherapy treatment in pediatric hematology oncology patients undergoing chemotherapy treatment.

Design And Methods: The study was carried out as a randomized controlled clinical trial. The study was conducted sixty-two pediatric oncology patients who underwent chemotherapy in a hospital in Ankara, Turkey.

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Introduction: Distraction is a method that is easy to use in emergency departments and effective in relieving procedural pain and anxiety. This study aimed to determine the effect of 2 new distraction methods-1 active distraction (rotatable wooden toy) and 1 passive distraction (toy wristband)-on procedural pain, fear, and anxiety in children during venous blood sampling.

Methods: This study was a randomized controlled experimental study.

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Objective: To evaluate the effects of massage therapy on total serum bilirubin (TSB) levels and frequency of defecation, urination, and feeding in newborns who receive phototherapy for indirect hyperbilirubinemia.

Design: A randomized controlled clinical trial.

Setting: Ankara University Cebeci Research and Training Hospital and 29 May State Hospital in Ankara, Turkey.

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Purpose: We aimed to determine the complementary and integrative health (CIH) methods used by parents to treat oral mucositis in their children who have cancer.

Design And Methods: In this multicenter, cross-sectional study, data for the study were collected via the demographic form and CIH form for oral mucositis. The data collection tools were filled out by the researchers during the face-to-face interviews.

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Objective: To evaluate the clinical effect of pacifier use on orogastric tube-fed preterm infants.

Methods: The non-blinded randomised controlled study was conducted between October 2014 and November 2015 at the neonatal intensive care unit of a large public-sector hospital in Ankara, Turkey, and comprised preterm infants aged 31-36 gestational weeks with a birth weight of 1000g or above who had no congenital or neurological disease and were fed by orogastric tube. Through computer-generated simple randomisation, the subjects were divided into pacifier (intervention) and non-pacifier (control) groups.

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Objective: To investigate the effect of music during routine nursing care on full-term newborns physiological measurements, hospital stay and stress symptoms.

Methods: The randomised controlled trial was conducted at the Level II neonatal intensive care unit of a state hospital in Turkey from November 2014 to August 2015, and comprised full-term newborns. Three groups were formed by simple randomisation according to babies' Score for Neonatal Acute Physiology with Perinatal Extension-II; classical music, lullaby, and a control group.

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Objective: The study was planned as the research of the kind/kinds of abuse and the factors influencing the abuse that the children under 18 who are working full-time at a workplace and enrolled in a vocational training center subjected to.

Method: Questionnaires were administered to 595 apprentices who were attending a vocational training center.

Results: It was determined that totally 62.

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Purpose: This study was designed to determine mothers' perceptions and concerns about their preschool children's weight.

Design And Method: This descriptive survey was carried out with mothers of 4- to 6-year-old children attending preschool.

Results: The prevalence of overweight among preschool children was 25.

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