The attitude towards Medical Device-Related Pressure Injuries Questionnaire: a Turkish validity and reliability study.

Background: The attitudes of nurses should be measured using valid and reliable tools to develop effective nursing care strategies for the prevention of medical device-related pressure injuries and to organize necessary training programs.

Purpose: This study was planned to conduct the Turkish validity and reliability study of the Attitude towards Medical Device-Related Pressure Ulcers/Injuries Questionnaire (MDRPU/I Questionnaire (the English-language version)) in nurses.

Methods: This methodological study included 134 nurses working in hospitals of different sizes and characteristics (public hospitals, training and research hospitals, and university hospitals) in Turkey.

The relationship between moral distress levels and ethical climate perceptions of PICU nurses.

Background: The organizational climate in paediatric intensive care units is specific to the conditions of the patient, and there may be a relationship between the ethical climate perception and moral distress levels of the nurses working in this unit.

Aim: The research aim was to examine the relationship between the moral distress levels and their perceptions of hospital ethical climate of paediatric intensive care unit nurses.

Methods: This research was aimed a descriptive, cross-sectional and correlational type with 239 paediatric intensive care unit nurses of public, university and training and research hospitals in Turkey.

Association of HOTAIR rs1899663 G>T Polymorphism with Colorectal Cancer in the Turkish Population: A Case-Control Study.

Background: Long noncoding RNAs increase the overexpression of oncogenes. Cancer development and metastasis of cancer may occur as a result of overexpression of oncogenes. Polymorphisms in the genes (such as HOTAIR, etc.

Professional values and professional quality of life among mental health nurses: A cross-sectional study.

This study aims to investigate the relationship between the professional values and professional quality of life of nurses working in mental health units. This descriptive, cross-sectional, and correlational study was conducted with a sample of 120 nurses working in mental health units of one regional, one public, and one university hospital in western Turkey. Data were collected using an introductory information form, the Nurses Professional Values Scale-Revised, and the Professional Quality of Life-IV Scale.

The effects of health belief model-based education and acupressure for coping with premenstrual syndrome on premenstrual symptoms and quality of life: A randomized-controlled trial.

Purpose: This study investigated the effects of health belief model-based education and acupressure for coping with premenstrual syndrome (PMS) on premenstrual symptoms and quality of life.

Design And Methods: The sample size was identified as 163 women. While the acupressure education group-administered education and acupressure, the education group-administered only education.

The Effect of Acupressure on Acute Pain During Venipuncture in Children: Implications for Evidence-Based Practice.

Aims: The study was conducted as a randomized controlled trial in order to determine the effects of acupressure on acute pain during venipuncture in children.

Methods: The population of the study consisted of children, aged between 9 and 12 years, who received venipuncture between September 2015 and June 2016 at a university hospital in Istanbul. The sample consisted of a total of 90 children, including 45 children in the acupressure group and 45 children in the control group, who met the sample inclusion criteria.

The effectiveness of an exercise intervention in reducing the severity of postpartum depression: A randomized controlled trial.

Purpose: This study aims to identify the effectiveness of an exercise program in reducing the severity of postnatal depression in women who had a spontaneous vaginal delivery.

Design And Methods: This randomized control trial was conducted with 65 postpartum women residing in a city located in south-eastern Turkey. In the first postpartum month, following random assignment of subjects, the experimental group (n = 40) performed exercises for 4 weeks, and the control group (n = 40) received standard care.