The assessment of care burden and influencing factors on family caregivers for cancer patients.

Background: The family caregivers as primary caregivers play a crucial role regarding the care of cancer patients. As defined in the literature, the care burden encompasses the negative objective and subjective outcomes including psychological and physical health problems, economic and social issues, deterioration of family relationships and feelings of loss of control that arise from caregiving responsibilities.

Aims: This study aims to assess the care burden and to evaluate the associated factors among family caregivers of cancer patients receiving treatment at a state hospital in Türkiye.

Effect of Postoperative Adjuvant Radiotherapy on Quality of Life, Anxiety, and Depression in Adult Female Breast Cancer Patients.

Aim: This study aims to identify anxiety and depression caused by adjuvant radiotherapy in breast cancer cases to determine the deterioration in the quality of life and investigate the effect of early treatment.

Materials And Methods: In this study, the Beck Depression Inventory, Beck Anxiety Inventory, and European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire-30 (EORTC QLQ-C30) Turkish 3.0 forms were evaluated in 63 breast cancer patients before the start of radiotherapy treatment (T1) and at six weeks after the end of radiotherapy treatment (T2).

Antenatal depression: prevalence and risk factors in a hospital based Turkish sample.

Objective: To assess the prevalence and associated risk factors for antenatal depression.

Methods: From April to September 2011, a total of 651 pregnant women who had no chronic diseases, were at low risk for obstetric complications and who had no diagnosed depression before pregnancy were recruited for interview at Merkez Efendi Hospital, Maternal and Child out-patient department in western Turkey. The evaluation of depression was scored according to the Beck Depression Inventory.

A survey of the awareness, use and attitudes of women towards Down syndrome screening.

Aims And Objectives: To determine awareness, use and attitudes of Turkish women towards prenatal screening tests (PST) for Down syndrome (DS).

Background: The technology of screening and diagnosing congenital diseases and abnormalities of foetuses has rapidly developed in the past few decades and prenatal screening for DS in early pregnancy is a valued component representing a cost-effective public health intervention in modern developed countries.

Design: Cross-sectional and descriptive study.

Health-promoting lifestyle behaviour for cancer prevention: a survey of Turkish university students.

Background: Health risks associated with unhealthy behaviours in adolescent and university students contribute to the development of health problems in later life. During the past twenty years, there has been a dramatic increase in public, private, and professional interest in preventing disability and death through changes in lifestyle and participation in screening programs. The aim of the study was to evaluate university students' health-promoting lifestyle behaviour for cancer prevention.

Planned and unplanned pregnancy: effects on health practice and depression during pregnancy.

Aim: The aim of the study was to explore the prevalence and characteristics of women with unplanned pregnancy (UP) and to examine the associations between pregnancy planning status and women's health practice and depression during pregnancy in Manisa, Turkey.

Material And Methods: The study was conducted with pregnant women (n=550) who attended a state hospital for antenatal care in Manisa, Turkey. Health practices of women during pregnancy were assessed with the Health Practices Questionnaire (HPQ II) and depression was measured by the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI).

Fertility preferences, contraceptive behaviors and unmet needs: a gap between urban and suburban parts of a city.

Objectives: To explore the differences in unwanted fertility in different parts of a city.

Methods: Data were obtained from the 1999 Manisa Demographic and Health Survey (MDHS) in Turkey. We collected information from a representative sample of 1728 ever-married women aged 15-49 years on fertility, fertility preferences, unmet need for family planning, contraceptive discontinuation, and abortion.