The Effect of Menopause on the Sexual Functions and Marital Adjustment of the Spouses.

Background: This study was conducted as a cross-sectional descriptive study to determine the effect of menopause on the SFs and marital adjustment (MA) of the spouses.

Materials And Methods: The sample of the study consisted of a total of 254 people, 127 of whom were postmenopausal women and their spouses. The data were collected with the Descriptive Information Form, the Female Sexual Function Scale (FSFS), the Arizona Sexual Experiences Scale (ASES), and the Marital Adjustment Scale (MAS).

Effect of comfort theory-based nursing care on pain and comfort in women undergoing hysterosalpingography: a randomized controlled trial.

Objective: This study aims to examine the effect of comfort theory-based nursing care on pain and comfort in women undergoing hysterosalpingography.

Methods: This randomized control trial was conducted on 126 women (42 in each intervention and control group). Virtual reality glasses group (n=42), mobile-assisted education group (n=42), and control group (n=42).

The effectiveness of a training program based on the Human Caring Theory to caring behaviors and post-cesarean caring outcomes.

This study was conducted to determine the effects of the Human Caring Theory-based post-cesarean caring and pain management training on caring behaviors and caring outcomes. The sample consisted of 25 nurses, midwives and 208 women who had cesarean. Nurses and midwives were given training based on Human Caring Theory, which consisted of three sessions.

Nurses as the leading fighters during the COVID-19 pandemic: Self-transcendence.

Background: The Covid 19 pandemic has led to and continues to pose challenges for healthcare systems globally, especially in intensive care units. This research was conducted to examine the self-transcendence of the leading fighters, intensive care nurses, during the Covid 19 pandemic.

Methods: The descriptive phenomenological research method was used in the study.

Effects of a nursing care program based on the theory of human caring on women diagnosed with gynecologic cancer: a pilot study from Turkey.

Purpose/objectives: This pilot study aimed to determine the effects of a nursing care program based on the Theory of Human Caring (THC) on chemotherapy symptoms, hope, and meaning in life in women diagnosed with gynecologic cancer.

Design/methods: This pilot study was conducted in a single-blinded, randomized controlled trial on 52 women diagnosed with gynecologic cancer in Turkey. In the present study, the experimental group was given a nursing care program based on the THC alongside routine nursing care for five sessions, while the control group received solely routine nursing care.

Faculty experiences with rapid integration of male nursing students within a patriarchal societal context.

Background: In 2007, reforms by the Turkish government forced a rapid integration of male nursing students into previously all-female schools. The minimal amount of time for faculty preparation, little guidance from nursing leaders and the extant literature, and a societal context of patriarchy created unique challenges for faculty.

Objective: The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore and interpret the experiences of nursing faculty as they adapted to the sudden inclusion of men in schools of nursing.

Nursing: the lesser of two evils.

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore and document the motivational factors, supports, and barriers to choosing nursing and to explore the nursing and caring images of male nursing students. The unique context for this study was the merging of the community health officer and nursing curricula, which suddenly brought men enrolled in the former curricula with the all-female nursing student body. The study was carried out with 15 new Turkish male nursing students.

Menstrual Attitude Questionnaire: confirmatory and exploratory factor analysis with Turkish samples.

Aim: This study is a report of an investigation of the psychometric properties of the Turkish version of the Menstrual Attitude Questionnaire.

Background: Cultural, social and family environments influence women's beliefs about and attitudes towards menstruation. Awareness of these beliefs and/or attitudes and their cultural origins is necessary to understand women and their reactions to menstruation when offering health care.

Verbal abuse of nursing and midwifery students in clinical settings in Turkey.

This phenomenological study describes nursing and midwifery students' experiences with and perceptions of verbal abuse in clinical settings in Turkey. Purposive sampling and, within this technique, typical case sampling were used to capture the students' most typical experiences of verbal abuse. Four categories with 10 themes describing verbal abuse experiences emerged from interviews.

The opinions of employed mothers about their own nutrition during lactation: a questionnaire survey.

Objectives: The main purpose of the study was to identify the changes employed mothers of infants aged 0-24 months made in their nutrition with the aim of increasing their milk production and extending their breastfeeding period.

Methods: The 135 full-time employed mothers enrolled in this study came to the Well-Child Clinic at Akdeniz University Hospital. Dietary data were collected from the mothers via a questionnaire prepared by the researchers to elicit details about what kind of foods or nutrition supplements women added, avoided or were recommended to avoid or add to their diets and why.

Recipients' perceptions of their transplanted kidneys.

Background: The literature indicates few studies on kidney patients' perception of the donor kidney. In light of this fact, we decided to explore this issue with adult patients.

Methods: We carried out a phenomenological study with 40 adult kidney patients.