Impact of spiritual interventions in individuals with cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Purpose: This meta-analysis aimed to determine how spiritual interventions affect cancer patients' physical, emotional, and spiritual outcomes and quality of life.

Methods: Between 2012 and May 2024, the Cochrane Library, Scopus, PubMed, and Web of Science were searched considering the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses checklist. Twenty-six randomized controlled trials were included, and 16 were synthesized in the meta-analysis.

The experiences, perceptions and challenges of mothers managing asthma in their children: a qualitative study.

Background: Despite the fact that childhood asthma poses an important burden, especially on the families, little is known about the emotional experiences of mothers. This article describes the predominant emotional challenges and experiences reported by mothers of children with asthma.

Methods: Individual, semi-structured, in-depth interviews with a qualitative study method was used in collection of the data.

Validity and reliability of the Turkish version of three screening tools (PYMS, STAMP, and STRONG-kids) in hospitalized children.

Background: There are different malnutrition screening tools developed in the English language, but limited data available on the validity of their versions translated into other languages. The aim of this study is to construct a Turkish version of PYMS, STRONG-kids, and STAMP and to determine their validity and reliability in a pediatric population.

Methods: The present study was conducted at two stages.

Home Gastrostomy Feeding Education Program: Effects on the Caregiving Burden, Knowledge, and Anxiety Level of Mothers.

Background: It is highly important for healthcare professionals to give discharge education to families to increase their knowledge of gastrostomy care and complications and to inform them about the correct behaviors. The purpose of the present descriptive pretraining and posttraining evaluation study was to investigate the effects of a standardized, evidence-based discharge education program prepared for children with gastrostomy tubes on the caregivers' knowledge, anxiety levels, and caregiving burden.

Methods: The primary caregivers of children with a gastrostomy tube (n = 30) were interviewed on the first day of the education program and the first week and third month after the program, and a pretest/posttest, the Zarit Caregiver Burden Scale and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory were applied.

[Examining the Psychological Resilience of Adolescents with Leukemia: A Comparative Study].

Aim: This descriptive and comparative research was conducted to determine the level of psychological resilience of adolescents diagnosed with leukemia.

Method: The sample research group comprised of eighty adolescents in the 15-18 age group who have leukemia in pediatric hematology outpatient clinics. The sample comparison group comprised of eighty healthy adolescents in the 15-18 age group who were students from years 9, 10, 11, and 12 in a high school.