The Effect of Workplace Bullying Perception on Psychological Symptoms: A Structural Equation Approach.

Background: The aims of this study were to determine the extent of workplace bullying perceptions among the employees of a Faculty of Medicine, evaluating the variables considered to be associated, and determining the effect of workplace bullying perceptions on their psychological symptoms evaluated by the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI).

Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed involving 355 (88.75%) employees.

An analysis of the incidence of measles in Turkey since 1960.

Background/aim: The aims of this study were to evaluate measles incidence and the effect of elimination strategy interventions on the disease from 1960 to 2014 in Turkey. The administration of measles vaccine started in the rural regions in 1970; it was carried out as a campaign along with the National Vaccine Campaign in 1985, and it has been employed as combined measles, mumps, and rubella under the scope of the Measles Elimination Program (MEP) since 2006 in Turkey. While a dramatic decrease in the reporting of measles was observed between 2000 and 2010, the number of the cases has increased since 2011.

Evaluation of habitual behavior related to genital hygiene in women living in a health care center area.

Objective: To evaluate that habitual behaviors related to genital hygiene in women living in a Health Care Center Area.

Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 400 women were sampled to represent women in reproductive ages (15-49 ages) living in the Park Health Care Center Area, Ankara, Turkey between June and September 2008. Three hundred and eighty-six (96.

[Frequency of light cigarette use on staff and students of Ankara University School of Medicine].

Light cigarettes which are launched as fewer harmful threaten to community health because of so many diseases related with smoking. Therefore, research of light cigarette using rates and related factors might be beneficial along with research of smoking frequency in community. The aim of this study is to evaluate light cigarette smoking habit of staff and students of school of medicine.

Depression scores and associated factors in pregnant and non-pregnant women: a community-based study in Turkey.

The aims of this study were to evaluate and compare the depression scores of pregnant and non-pregnant women, and to identify the factors associated with depression scores in the two groups. This community-based study was conducted in a primary health care center catchment area in Ankara (population: 17,838) in January 2003. At the beginning of the study, the trimesters of all pregnant women (n = 66) were determined and as a control group (n = 138), two non-pregnant women matched for age and parity characteristics living in the same area were selected for each pregnant woman.