Publications by authors named "Serdar Bozkurt"

Aim: The current paper seeks to elucidate the interrelationships among emotional demands (ED), emotional exhaustion (EE), mindfulness, and work engagement (WE), with an explanation of the mediating role of mindfulness within indicated relationships.

Background: Nurses working in a stress-related environment face some emotional challenges. New methods such as mindfulness should be learned; therefore, positive outcomes occur along with new developments.

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Dysfunctional and destructive leadership behaviors have begun to be seen frequently in today's business world. Likewise, toxic leadership, with incompetent supervision elements results with negative outputs for organizations and heavily for the employees. Employees may experience long-term stress in the work environment and develop emotional exhaustion, resulting in mental breakdown.

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Aim: Postoperative abdominal adhesions represent one of the most common causes of intestinal obstruction in surgical patients. In this study, the effects of intraperitoneal administration of estrogen on the development of postoperative intraabdominal adhesions and peritoneal leucocytes in a rat adhesion model were investigated.

Methods: Sixty Wistar albino rats were divided into three groups.

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Purpose: We investigated the effects of intraperitoneal tenoxicam on the development of postoperative intra-abdominal adhesions and oxidative stress in a model of bacterial peritonitis.

Methods: Bacterial peritonitis was induced in 24 rats by cecal ligation and puncture. The rats were randomly assigned to one of three groups.

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Background: To investigate the effects of intraperitoneally administered lornoxicam on adhesion formation, bursting pressure, tissue antioxidant levels, morbidity and mortality after ileocolic anastomosis in a rat bacterial peritonitis model.

Methods: Thirty-six rats were divided into three random groups. Bacterial peritonitis was induced by performing a cecal ligation and puncture, then the cecal was resected and ileocolic anastomosis was performed.

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