Disaster Management Experiences and Psychosocial Problems of Individuals Who Survived the Earthquake in Turkey in the Earthquake of the Century: A Phenomenological Study.

Aim: The aim of this study is to examine the disaster management experiences and psychosocial problems of individuals who survived the earthquake in Turkey during the earthquake of the century.

Materials And Methods: A qualitative research design, phenomenological research, was applied in this study. This qualitative study included 33 volunteer earthquake survivors.

Practices of Patient Relatives Aimed at Preventing Pressure Injuries and Their Experiences of Coping with the Burden of Care: A Qualitative Study.

Objective: To determine the practices and coping experiences of the relatives of patients with pressure injuries (PIs).

Methods: The authors used a qualitative, phenomenologic research design. They interviewed 20 relatives of patients with PIs face-to-face using an in-depth semistructured interview form.

Palliative care infections and antibiotic cost: a vicious circle.

In this study our aim was to evaluate the nosocomial infections and to understand factors affecting the cost of used antibiotics in palliative care unit. Between 2016 and 2017, 113 patients were included in the study in palliative care unit of University of Health Sciences Bursa Yuksek Ihtisas Research and Training Hospital. Patients medical records were analyzed retrospectively for nosocomial infections, chronic diseases, presence of decubitis ulcers, opioid use, enteral, parenteral feedings, mortality and antibiotic cost.

The epidemic typhus and trench fever are risk for public health due to increased migration in southeast of Turkey.

Pediculus humanus capitis is a small ectoparasitic insect that has lived and feds on human beings for thousands of years. Molecular techniques have been used for Pediculus species identification and evolutionary, phylogenic, and ecological studies. A total of 23 adults of P.

Occupational Risks of Health Professionals in Turkey as an Emerging Economy.

Background: Health services are one of the work areas that contain important risks in terms of the occupational health and safety of the laborer. Professionals in various areas of health services encounter biological, chemical, physical, ergonomic, and psychosocial risks, particularly in hospitals.

Objectives: This study has been performed to evaluate the impacts of the occupational risks on health of health professionals in Turkey.

Effects of Occupational Health and Safety on Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors of Workers Employed in a Private Company in Turkey.

Background: It has been suggested that inappropriate working conditions and unsafe environments at construction sites, longer working hours, and inadequate workplaces adversely affect the health behaviors of workers.

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of occupational health and safety (OHS) practices on healthy lifestyle behaviors of workers employed at a construction site of a private company in Gaziantep, Turkey.

Methods: The sampling size of this descriptive study consisted of 400 employees working at the construction site between December 2014 and January 2015.

The impacts of occupational risks and their effects on work stress levels of health professional (The sample from the Southeast region of Turkey).

Objectives: This study was performed to determine the occupational risks and their effects on the work stress of the health professionals working in state hospitals in the Southeast of Turkey.

Methods: This cross-sectional and descriptive study was composed of 360 health professionals of the Pazarcık, Ergani, and Şehitkamil State Hospitals between December 2014 and January 2015. The data of the study were obtained by performing the survey which was composed of questions related to the socio-demographic characteristics, factors that were thought to affect the occupational risks and job stress, as well as, the questions of the Work Stress Scale.

Evaluation of renal transplantations performed in the Transplantation Center at Sanko University Medical School.

Introduction: Renal transplantation is the optimum treatment to improve the quality and length of life in end-stage renal disease. The aim of this study is to evaluate patients who underwent renal transplantation in our transplantation center and to present our clinical experience.

Methods: Living donor and cadaveric renal transplants performed in the Transplantation Center of Sanko University Medical School between 2011 and 2014 were evaluated retrospectively.

Two different myiasis cases in southeast of Turkey: ophthalmomyiasis and cutaneous myiasis.

Myiasis has become increasingly prevalent, particularly when human activity is carried out in environments with poor hygiene. We reported two cases of human myiasis in this paper. All of myiasis cases initially presenting to the Emergency Department of Kilis State Hospital in Turkey were identified.