Publications by authors named "Hesna Gurler"
This study was carried out to analyze the validity and reliability of the Turkish adaptation of the "Intensive Care Nurses" Attitude Scale towards Brain Death and Organ Transplantation". The research was carried out as a methodological study and 256 nurses were included in the study. Language, content validity, explanatory and confirmatory factor analyzes were used to analyze data.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: The aim of this study was to compare Anxiety Specific to Surgery Questionnaire (ASSQ) with Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information Scale (APAIS) in the assessment of preoperative anxiety level and to evaluate the fears associated with surgery and anesthesia in surgical patients.
Design: This is descriptive, correlational, and cross-sectional study.
Method: The study sample included 507 surgical patients in four surgery wards who underwent elective surgery.
The effectiveness of a recurrent fall prevention program applied to elderly people undergoing fracture treatment.
Int J Orthop Trauma Nurs
February 2021
Background: Worldwide 30-40% of people aged of 65 and over fall each year. It is important to develop preventive interventions for falls in the elderly to prevent injuries leading to mortality and morbidity.
Objectives: This study evaluated the effectiveness of a recurrent fall prevention program in elderly individuals undergoing fracture treatment.
The efficacy of integrating spirituality into undergraduate nursing curricula.
Nurs Ethics
December 2014
Background: Attention to patients' spirituality, as a moral obligation of care, is now widely accepted in nursing practice. However, until recently, many nursing programs have paid little attention to spirituality.
Objective: The objective of this study was to identify the impact of two different curricula, used to teach undergraduate nursing students, on increasing nursing student awareness of spirituality in the care of patients.
Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the sleep quality of the patients hospitalized in surgical units and the factors that influence it.
Method: The research was a randomized descriptive study. It was conducted in the surgical clinics of Sivas Cumhuriyet University Health Services Research Hospital.
Breast cancer risk factors in Turkey: a hospital-based case-control study.
Asian Pac J Cancer Prev
September 2012
Background: Regional disparities in breast cancer (BC) outcomes have been reported in Turkey.
Methods: In a hospital-based case-control study in Sivas, Turkey, 172 patients with histologically confirmed BC were compared with 383 controls, recruited from visitors in various departments of the same hospital, who had not been previously diagnosed with BC. Information was collected from both groups using a questionnaire and logistic regression analysis was applied to assess associations between each risk factor and BC risk with adjusted odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs).
Aims And Objectives: The aims of the present study were to identify the levels of preoperative anxiety in patients undergoing elective surgery and the relationship between preoperative anxiety and social support. In addition, predictors of preoperative anxiety were studied in surgical inpatients.
Background: Major life changes are significant factors that cause anxiety; hospitalisation and surgery are among such changes.
Objectives: We aimed in this defining study to determine patients' opinions about nursing practices with respect to their postoperative pain and their satisfaction with these practices.
Methods: Data were collected by two questionnaires that were prepared by the researchers. The collected data were evaluated with chi-square and number, frequency tests.