Evaluation of Preoperative Sleep Quality and Factors Affecting Pain Intensity of Patients Hospitalized in Surgical Services.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine the preoperative sleep quality and pain intensity of patients hospitalized in the surgical services of a university hospital, and to evaluate the relationship between sleep quality and pain intensity and the factors affecting it.

Design: The study was a descriptive cross-sectional study.

Methods: The study was conducted on 139 patients over the age of 18 who were hospitalized in the surgical services of Eskişehir Osmangazi University Health Practice and Research Hospital between March 1, 2019 and July 31, 2019, and agreed to participate in the study.

Meeting the care needs of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families through the Model of Nursing Based on Activities of Living.

Aim: This study aimed to identify the problems families of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities face in meeting their family members' care needs, using the Model of Nursing Based on Activities of Living, and planned implemented and evaluated the nursing interventions to fulfill these care needs.

Method: A cross-sectional screening model was used in the study. One hundred families of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, who accepted home visits between September 2008 and December 2008, were included in the study.

Evaluation of Illness Perception of Women with Breast Cancer in Turkey.

Objective: The aim of this study is to examine the illness perceptions of women with breast cancer and possible relationships between these perceptions and descriptive characteristics such as sociodemographic and clinical characteristics in Turkey.

Materials And Methods: The study was conducted in compliance with correlational, descriptive research principles. Three hundred eighty women with breast cancer who were treated in various hospitals in seven regions of the country were included in the study.

Educational Study to Increase Breast Cancer Knowledge Level and Scanning Participation among Women Working at a University.

Objective: The aim of the study is to increase the participation level of women in screening programs by increasing the level of knowledge about early diagnosis and screening methods for breast cancer (BC).

Materials And Methods: This was a pretest-posttest one group design study held in Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Turkey. The sample consisted of 405 women in all departments of the University.

Relationships between social support and social image concerns in Turkish women with breast cancer.

Background: Breast cancer is one of the most common cancer types in women and is amongst the most devastating and stressful events in the life of women. The external appearance of breast cancer patients usually changes due to the surgical and/or medical therapies used. An association may be found between social support perception and social appearance anxiety in patients with breast cancer in the period after mastectomy.

Prevalence of postpartum depression in mothers and fathers and its correlates.

Aims And Objectives: To determine the prevalence of postpartum depression and its connections in a group of mothers and their husbands.

Background: Although postpartum depression in mothers during the postnatal period has been extensively studied, the courses of depression from pregnancy to postpartum and risk factors among mothers and fathers together are not known.

Design: A cross-sectional design was used.

Effectiveness of foot and hand massage in postcesarean pain control in a group of Turkish pregnant women.

The aim of this study was to determine the efficiency of foot and hand massage on reducing postoperative pain in patients who had cesarean operation. This pretest-posttest design study was planned as a randomized controlled experimental study. In the light of the results, it was reported that the reduction in pain intensity was significantly meaningful in both intervention groups when compared to the control group.

An investigation on nursing, midwifery and health care students' learning motivation in Turkey.

The aim was to determine differences between the dimensions of motivational learning and sociodemographic characteristics of nursing, midwifery and health care students. For the purpose of collecting data on learning-oriented motivations, occupational learning motivation scale (OLMS) was used. The OLMS was designed to assess the constructs of extrinsic, intrinsic and negative factors for learning, cognitive and lifelong learning goals.

Turkish nurses' information about, and administration of, chemotherapeutic drugs.

Aim: The aim of this study was to determine both the level of information that nurses possessed and the method of administration nurses used during chemotherapeutic drug preparation and administration.

Background: While compliance with the regulations related to chemotherapeutic drug preparation and administration seems to be very difficult, it is at the same time vital.

Methods: This descriptive study was conducted between 1 May 2002 and 1 May 2003 in the chemotherapy administration units of all hospitals in Eskisehir, west Turkey.