Cross-cultural adaptation, reliability, and validity of the Turkish version of the obesity-specific quality of life questionnaire: quality of life, obesity, and dietetics (QOLOD) rating scale.

Background/aim: Obesity is one of the main public health issues in many countries including Turkey. The aim of the study is to test cross-cultural adaptation, reliability, and validity of QOLOD rating scale in the Turkish language.

Materials And Methods: This methodological study was conducted among the overweight and obesity people between February-March, 2018 in Ankara Atatürk Training and Research Hospital.

Change in the geographic distribution of human resources for health in Turkey, 2002-2016.

Introduction: Turkey, which suffers from both undersupply of physicians, nurses and midwives and imbalanced distribution of healthcare personnel, has been developing and implementing various policies to solve these problems. The Ministry of Health launched the Health Transformation Program in 2003 for effective, efficient and fair provision of healthcare services for all people. This study aimed to take a closer look at the impact of policies implemented to reduce the imbalance of the distribution of human resources for health for the past 15 years in Turkey.

Vaccination rates for Syrian population under temporary protection in Turkey.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to gather information on demographic and health indicators, primarily vaccination status, of Syrians under temporary protection in five provinces of Turkey and to develop infrastructure for vaccination planning.

Methods: The population under study consists of 89,986 Syrian children, 0-4 years of age, residing in Ankara, Mersin, Gaziantep, Izmir, and Bursa. Initially, we planned to evaluate 2,339 children, although a total of 2,827 children were evaluated by the end of the study.

Evaluation of the attitudes of specialist and family physicians regarding rational drug selection.

Objective: Physicians' personal (P) drugs, which were ranked by priority, may show variations even for the same indication. We aimed to evaluate physicians' knowledge and attitudes regarding P-drug list preparation with respect to the rational use of medicine context.

Methods: A total of 1062 family physicians (FPs) and 562 specialist physicians (SPs) were interviewed and questioned about their knowledge and attitude regarding P-drug list preparation.

Patients' attitudes and knowledge about drug use: a survey in Turkish family healthcare centres and state hospitals.

Background/aim: Irrational drug use is a common problem. This study aimed to evaluate patients' knowledge and habits concerning drug use, and compare them in terms of some sociodemographic characteristics. Materials and methods: A face-to-face questionnaire was given to outpatients from family healthcare centres (FHCs) and state hospitals (SHs) in 12 provinces in Turkey during May 2010.