Determining Adults' Attitudes towards Cancer Screening, Information Load, and Mythical Causes of Cancer.

Purpose: To determine the attitudes of adults presenting to primary care services toward cancer screening, information overload, and mythical causes of cancer.

Design: Descriptive and correlational type study.

Methods: The research was conducted face-to-face with 702 adults.

The effect of multiple nursing interventions on physical activity and health promotion in the elderly: A randomized controlled trial.

Health promotion and physical activity practices for the elderly are important but still not sufficient. This study aimed to determine if the effects of education through home visit, mobile application (Google Fit), group walking, and phone reminder interventions on health promotion and physical activity in the elderly. The study has a randomized controlled design with pretest-posttest interventions and a control group.

Social Participation of Older Adults in Rural and Urban Areas: A Cross-Sectional Survey in Turkey.

Social participation is important in terms of active aging and quality of life during old age. This cross-sectional study aimed to determine the social participation of older adults in rural and urban areas in Turkey. Related factors were similarly identified.

Effect of UV Irradiation Time and Headgroup Interactions on the Reversible Colorimetric pH Response of Polydiacetylene Assemblies.

Polydiacetylenes are chromatic conjugated polymers formed upon the photopolymerization of self-assembled diacetylenes. They exhibit conformation-dependent colorimetric responses, usually irreversible, to external triggers. Here, we presented an approach to obtain a reversible colorimetric response to a pH change through structural modifications on the monomer and extended photopolymerization time.

Unknown Aspect of Compassion Fatigue in Family Caregivers of Elderly: A Phenomenological Study.

The study aims to evaluate caregiving emotional state of caregiver family members, their state of experiencing compassion fatigue, and their opinions about effect of compassion fatigue on care. The study was designed using a phenomenological pattern, and 10 volunteer family caregivers were included in the study group. Individual interview technique was used in data collection.

Development of the Turkish version of the oral health assessment tool: Methodological study.

Aim: This research aimed to assess the validity and reliability of the "Oral Health Assessment Tool for the Elderly" Turkish form.

Methods: A total of 262 elderly individuals > 65 years of age were included in the study. These individuals were selected from community-dwelling elderly and nursing home residents in the Konya province of Turkey.

Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors Among 18- to 49-Year-Old Women: A Comparative Study.

Introduction: The prevalence of obesity has become a remarkable public health concern in a global extent. This study aimed to examine the difference between the healthy lifestyle behaviors of women with normal weight and those who are obese.

Method: This comparative descriptive study included a total of 302 women aged 18-49 years.

Evaluation of the relationship among foot wound risk, foot self-care behaviors, and illness acceptance in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Aims: Due to insufficient data in primary care, this study was designed to assess the influence of patient's foot self-care behaviors and illness acceptance on the risk of developing diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) in adults diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM).

Methods: This is a descriptive study with a clinical assessment element. Data were collected using a number of validated psychometric questionnaires that assess the participant's foot self care behavior, acceptance of Illness, symptoms and neuropathy.

Effect of education and counseling on anthropometric measures and healthy lifestyle behavior among overweight and obese women.

Background: It is extremely important to develop and maintain healthy lifestyle behaviors, particularly in overweight and obese women.

Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of education and counseling on healthy lifestyle behaviors among overweight and obese women who attend a sports center.

Methods: This pretest-posttest interventional study included a total of 60 women aged 18-49 years [intervention (n = 30) and control (n = 30)].

Temporally Programmed Disassembly and Reassembly of C3Ms.

Responsive materials, which can adapt and operate autonomously under dynamic conditions, are a stepping stone towards functional, life-like systems inspired by fueled self-assembly processes in nature. Complex coacervate core micelles (C3Ms) comprising oppositely charged macromolecules constitute a novel class of polymeric micelles ideally suited for use as responsive nanoscopic delivery vehicles of hydrophilic and hydrophobic cargo. To fully exploit their potential, it is important that the C3Ms form and fall apart in an autonomous fashion as orchestrated by dynamic cues in their environment.

Complex Coacervate Core Micelles Containing Poly(vinyl alcohol) Inhibit Ice Recrystallization.

Complex coacervate core micelles (C3Ms) form upon complexation of oppositely charged copolymers. These co-assembled structures are widely investigated as promising building blocks for encapsulation, nanoparticle synthesis, multimodal imaging, and coating technology. Here, the impact on ice growth is investigated of C3Ms containing poly(vinyl alcohol), PVA, which is well known for its high ice recrystallization inhibition (IRI) activity.

Illuminating the Reaction Pathways of Viromimetic Assembly.

The coassembly of well-defined biological nanostructures relies on a delicate balance between attractive and repulsive interactions between biomolecular building blocks. Viral capsids are a prototypical example, where coat proteins exhibit not only self-interactions but also interact with the cargo they encapsulate. In nature, the balance between antagonistic and synergistic interactions has evolved to avoid kinetic trapping and polymorphism.

The effect of disability empathy activity on the attitude of nursing students towards disabled people: a pilot study.

Background: Nurses care for disabled people in society.

Objectives: The aim of this experimental study was to investigate the effect of disability empathy activities on strengthening the positive attitudes of nursing students towards disabled people.

Design: An experimental study.

Monitoring Protein Capsid Assembly with a Conjugated Polymer Strain Sensor.

Semiconducting polymers owe their optoelectronic properties to the delocalized electronic structure along their conjugated backbone. Their spectral features are therefore uniquely sensitive to the conformation of the polymer, where mechanical stretching of the chain leads to distinct vibronic shifts. Here we demonstrate how the optomechanical response of conjugated polyelectrolytes can be used to detect their encapsulation in a protein capsid.

Equivalent pathways in melting and gelation of well-defined biopolymer networks.

We use multiple particle tracking microrheology to study the melting and gelation behavior of well-defined collagen-inspired designer biopolymers expressed by the transgenic yeast P. Pastoris. The system consists of a hydrophilic random coil-like middle block and collagen-like end block.

Stark fluorescence spectroscopy reveals two emitting sites in the dissipative state of FCP antennas.

Diatoms are characterized by very efficient photoprotective mechanisms where the excess energy is dissipated as heat in the main antenna system constituted by fucoxanthin-chlorophyll (Chl) protein complexes (FCPs). We performed Stark fluorescence spectroscopy on FCPs in their light-harvesting and energy dissipating states. Our results show that two distinct emitting bands are created upon induction of energy dissipation in FCPa and possibly in FCPb.

[Evaluation of compliance and level of knowledge of patients with hypertension living in Karaman city center, Turkey].

Objectives: This descriptive study was performed in hypertensive patients to determine their level of knowledge on, and attitudes to drug use.

Study Design: The study was carried out in 194 patients (144 women, 50 men) who had been on antihypertensive treatment for at least a year. The mean duration of hypertension was 6.

Choroidal neovascularization following photodynamic therapy in a patient with chronic central serous chorioretinopathy.

Purpose: To present the clinical features and treatment of subfoveal choroidal neovascularization complicating photodynamic treatment (PDT) performed for chronic central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC).

Method: A 48-year-old healthy woman who had chronic visual deterioration in her right eye due to chronic CSC was treated with standard PDT protocol.

Results: Three weeks after the initial PDT, she experienced recovery in her vision and neurosensory detachment subsided clinically.

Miliary tuberculosis and bilateral multifocal choroidal involvement: place of indocyanine green angiography.

Purpose: To present the clinical features and angiographic findings of choroidal involvement in two cases with miliary tuberculosis.

Methods: 49-year and 23-year-old men were hospitalized for fever of unknown origin and they received a diagnosis of miliary tuberculosis following the systemic work-up. Both cases experienced mild visual acuity disturbances prior to initiation of systemic treatment.

Effect of ultraviolet B radiation on the absorption characteristics of various intraocular lenses.

Background: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of ultraviolet B (UVB) exposure on UV filters of various intraocular lenses (IOLs).

Methods: Eight samples each of the hydrophobic acrylic, hydrophilic acrylic and silicone IOLs were used. Four IOLs of each type was selected randomly as the control group while the remaining four IOLs of each type were exposed to a UVB dose of 1.

[The effects of social-demographic characteristics and hygienic habits on the prevalence of Enterobius vermicularis in primary school children.].

In our country, parasitic diseases in children and in particular, those caused by Enterobius vermicularis are wide-spread and are an important health problem. The level of education, nutrition, customs, and social-economic, medical-social and living standards as well as the climate and sanitary facilities play an important role in the incidence and prevalence of intestinal parasites. The aim of this descriptive and cross-sectional study was to investigate the effect of the social-demographic characteristics and habits of hygiene of primary school children on the presence of Enterobius vermicularis.

Staining of intraocular lenses with various dyes: a study of digital image analysis.

Purpose: To evaluate the interaction of various intraocular lens (IOL) materials with commonly used dyes.

Materials And Methods: One IOL of each of the five groups (polymethylmethacrylate, silicone, three-piece hydrophobic acrylic, single-piece hydrophobic acrylic and single-piece hydrophilic acrylic) was bathed in trypan blue 0.1%, fluorescein sodium 2% and indocyanine green (ICG) 0.

Transscleral fixation of foldable intraocular lenses.

Purpose: To report the results of transscleral implantation of foldable intraocular lenses (IOLs).

Setting: Department of Ophthalmology Dokuz Eylül University School of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey.

Methods: Twenty eyes of 20 patients had transscleral fixation of a foldable IOL combined with conventional 3-port pars plana vitrectomy or anterior vitrectomy.

Unilateral Purtscher-like retinopathy after weight-lifting.

Purpose: To report a case of Purtscher-like retinopathy after weightlifting.

Methods: A 17-year-old man presented with a sudden visual loss in his left eye after weightlifting two weeks ago. Fundus examination of the left eye showed cotton-wool spots and scattered retinal hemorrhages in the posterior pole.