Validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire.

Health literacy is a public health priority which refers to individual's knowledge, motivation and competence to access, understand, appraise and apply health information to prevent disease and promote health in daily life. This study aimed to adapt European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q47) into Turkish and to investigate its psychometric properties. The questionnaire was translated into Turkish by using both group translation and expert opinion methods.

Factors related to regular use of complementary/alternative medicine in Turkey.

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to determine the frequency of regular complementary/alternative medicine (CAM) use and to investigate the relations between some of the psychosocial and health related factors and the regular use of any CAM method.

Method: Nine hundred and eighty-eight adults whose ages ranged from 18 to 80 were surveyed in Izmir, Turkey. Participants were grouped as "regular CAM users" (n = 404), "irregular CAM users" (n = 445) and "non-users" (n = 139).

[Prevalence of and factors related to depression in high school students].

Objective: The study aimed at investigating the prevalence of and factors related to depression in high school students.

Method: A total of 805 (n = 367 girls; n = 438 boys) first year students from three high schools in the city of Aydin filled in a self-report questionnaire that contained questions about socio-demographics, academic achievement and religious belief. It included also a depression rating scale, social support scale, problem solving inventory and an assertiveness scale.

Validation of a Turkish translation of the Communication Skills Attitude Scale with Turkish medical students.

Objective: In recent years, many medical schools have added communication skills training to their curricula, and some studies have measured medical students' attitudes toward learning communication skills. The Communication Skills Attitude Scale (CSAS) was developed in England; however, there is no scale to measure these attitudes in Turkey. This study aims to adapt and examine the psychometric properties of a Turkish translation of the Communication Skills Attitude Scale in a group of Turkish medical students.

[Teaching empathy in medical education].

Objectives: To determine whether there is any difference in empathic tendencies and attitudes towards communication in medical practice among the first-year students of Adnan Menderes University Medical School, and to determine the effect of education and the relation between these two features.

Method: The Empathic Tendency Scale and Attitudes Towards Communication in Medical Practice Questionnaire were used to collect data from 36 (55.3 % of the total) students (65.