The Effect of Sun Knowledge and Self-Efficacy on Sun Protection Behavior in Skin Cancer Among Young People.

The aim of this study is to reveal the impact of skin cancer and sun knowledge on sun protection behavior in young people. In addition, identifying predictors influencing sun protection behaviors in young people is also aimed. A cross-sectional study was conducted with 424 young people in Turkey.

Evaluation of mycobacterial microscopy and culture results from clinical samples: A five-year analysis.

Introduction: Ehrlich-Ziehl-Neelsen (EZN) staining and culture methods are often used to diagnose tuberculosis. This study aimed to determine the acidfast bacteria (AFS) positivity rates in various clinical samples sent to our laboratory over five years and the growth and resistance rates in two different (solid and liquid) cultures and compare them with the data from Türkiye and the world.

Materials And Methods: A total of 62.

A study on obese patients' participation in cancer screening programs: an example from Turkey.

Objective: Obesity is associated with many types of cancers. Despite this, the participation of obese individuals in cancer screenings is limited. The aim of this study was to evaluate the cancer screening-related attitudes of obese patients.

Examining potentially inappropriate medication use among elderly individuals in palliative care: A comprehensive study.

This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of polypharmacy, the presence of potentially inappropriate medications and related factors in older adults receiving palliative care. This cross-sectional descriptive study was performed in 213 patients who were served from palliative care services. Mini Nutritional Assessment-Short Form, Katz Activities of Daily Living Scale and Charlson Comorbidity Index were applied.

Effect of Education on Symptom Management and Control in Cancer Patients Receiving Palliative Care.

Objective: This study aims to investigate the effect of an educational intervention on cancer patients receiving palliative care and their caregivers concerning symptom management and family needs.

Methods: This study involved 120 participants-60 cancer patients and their respective caregivers-divided into intervention and control groups. Over a 2-week period, the intervention group received a comprehensive educational program focusing on symptom management, while the control group did not receive any educational intervention.

Using the Amsler Grid Test for Age-Related Macular Degeneration Screening.

Objectives: To evaluate the use of the Amsler grid test (AGT) in screening for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), one of the most common causes of blindness, in primary healthcare settings.

Materials And Methods: The AGT was applied to 700 eyes of 355 people aged 50 and over who applied to a family health center in Ankara and had no eye complaints. The test was considered positive if the lines on the AGT card were seen as broken or curved, there was a difference in shape or size between the squares, or a color change or blurring was described in any area.

Ferritin/lymphocyte percentage ratio to predict the severity and mortality of COVID-19.

Objective: In this study, we aimed to investigate the relationship between ferritin/lymphocyte percentage ratio (FLPR) with clinical and radiological disease severity and mortality in COVID-19 patients.

Methods: This retrospective study was conducted with patients who had polymerase chain reaction positive results for COVID-19. We calculated FLPRs from laboratory tests taken during emergency clinic admission.

Protocol for a cluster randomised trial of a goal-oriented care approach for multimorbidity patients supported by a digital platform.

Introduction: Health information systems represent an opportunity to improve the care provided to people with multimorbidity. There is a pressing need to assess their impact on clinical outcomes to validate this intervention. Our study will determine whether using a digital platform (Multimorbidity Management Health Information System, METHIS) to manage multimorbidity improves health-related quality of life (HR-QoL).

Investigation of the risk factors associated with osteoporosis in postmenopausal women.

Objective: Osteoporosis is a substantial global public health issue. The objective of this study was to evaluate the risk variables associated with osteoporosis among patients seeking care at an outpatient menopausal clinic in a tertiary university hospital.

Material And Methods: In this retrospective, cross-sectional study postmenopausal women who attended the outpatient menopause clinic of Başkent University Hospital between June 01, 2014, and August 31, 2015, were enrolled.

Investigation of the Effect of Women's Breast Cancer Worry Levels on Breast Cancer Prevention Behavior.

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the extent of worry about breast cancer (BC) amongst a sample of women and to examine the effect of this on behavior to prevent BC.

Materials And Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in 271 women aged 18 years and above who attended the Family Medicine Outpatient Clinic of a tertiary hospital and met the inclusion criteria. Data were collected using the following tools: Patient Information Form; Breast Cancer Worry Scale (BCWS); Breast Cancer Prevention Behaviors Identification Scale (BCPBIS); and Mammography Processes of Change Scale (MPCS).

Evaluation of serum vitamin B12 levels in patients with COVID-19 infection: A case-control study.

Background: COVID-19 disease affects the respiratory and cardiovascular systems. Vitamin B12 has been associated with A1AT, one of the protective factors of lung tissue, and homocysteine among the cardiovascular risk factors. Therefore we suggest that low vitamin B12 levels are associated with a disposition to COVID-19 infection.

Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte Ratio and Platelet-to-lymphocyte Ratio in the Patients with Euthyroid Hashimoto's Thyroiditis.

Objective: This study aimed to compare the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) values in patients with euthyroid Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) with healthy control subjects.

Methods: This was a single-center, retrospective, cross-sectional study conducted on obese patients aged 18 years and over. The medical records of patients who presented with complaints of being overweight at the obesity clinic between April 2017 and May 2019 were examined.

Myeloproliferative Neoplasms and Aspirin: Does Increased Platelet Turnover Matter?

Objective: Platelet aggregation tests and the analysis of thromboxane A2 metabolites [serum thromboxane B2 (TXB2) and urine 11-dehydro TXB2] are used to evaluate the efficacy of aspirin. In myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs), the immature platelet fraction (IPF) rises due to enhanced platelet turnover, and this has been thought to reduce the efficacy of aspirin. This phenomenon is overcome by the recommendation of aspirin intake in divided doses.

Cardiovascular, Pulmonary, and Neuropsychiatric Short- and Long-Term Complications of COVID-19.

Beginning with the various strategies of the SARS-CoV-2 virus to invade our bodies and manifest infection, and ending with the recent long COVID, we are witnessing the evolving course of the disease in addition to the pandemic. Given the partially controlled course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the greatest challenge currently lies in managing the short- and long-term complications of COVID-19. We have assembled current knowledge of the broad spectrum of cardiovascular, pulmonary, and neuropsychiatric sequelae following SARS-CoV-2 infection to understand how these clinical manifestations collectively lead to a severe form of the disease.

The smoking population is not hardening in South Korea: a study using the Korea Community Health Survey from 2010 to 2018.

Introduction: The hardening hypothesis proposes that the proportion of hardcore smokers increases when smoking prevalence declines. To evaluate whether such hardening occurs in South Korea, we examined the association between quitting behaviours, the number of cigarettes smoked per day and the proportion of hardcore smokers and smoking prevalence among local districts in South Korea.

Methods: This study used the cross-sectional data from the Korea Community Health Survey (2010-2018) to examine local district-level associations between smoking prevalence and quit attempts, quit plans, quit ratios, cigarettes smoked per day and the proportion of hardcore smokers.

An Assessment of Anxiety about the Viral Epidemic and Work-Related Stress in Family Physicians in Turkey: How Does COVID-19 Vaccination Period Affect Anxiety and Stress?

Background: Our study aimed to evaluate the extent of family physicians' anxiety about the viral epidemic and work-related stress associated with the viral epidemic as well as examining the effects of COVID-19 vaccination period on such situations.

Subjects And Methods: Data collection forms including the SAVE-9 scale, prepared for this cross-sectional study, were converted into online questionnaires and sent to family physicians in order to evaluate and examine the extent of anxiety and stress of family physicians working as family physicians in different provinces of Turkey via e-mails and communication groups between December, 2020 and March, 2021. The responses of 500 family physicians who were accessible in this way and volunteered to participate in the study were recorded to be analysed.

Evaluation of frailty and neutrophil-to-lymphocyte and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratios relationship in elderly people.

It was aimed to evaluate the relationship between frailty and inflammation in people receiving home health care. It was a cross-sectional study. Edmonton Frail Scale was used to determine the level of frailty and, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio were used to determine inflammation.

A transcranial magnetic stimulation study for the characterization of corticospinal pathway plasticity in children with neurological disorders.

We aimed to investigate cortical and radicular TMS-evoked motor evoked potentials (MEPs) in children with neurological disorders (n = 57, mean age: 5.45 years) and agematched healthy controls (n = 46). Four TMS parameters were analyzed: MEP amplitudes, the latencies of MEP, the latency jump (cortical MEP latency at rest - cortical active-MEP latency at with slightly contracted targeted muscle), and central motor conduction time.

Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of 3334 cases with prediagnosis coronavirus disease - 2019 (COVID-19) in Turkey.

Aim: This study aims to analyse the epidemiological and clinical features of the patients admitted to the hospital with the prediagnosis of coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) in Turkey.

Materials And Methods: In this retrospective study, epidemiological and clinical features, laboratory markers, radiological features, therapeutic approaches, and survival conditions of the patients with the prediagnosis of COVID-19 from March 11th to June 30th, 2020 have been analysed and reported. The data of the cases were divided into four groups and then compared with each other: first group includes confirmed cases with positive reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and chest computed tomography (CT) imaging results considered as COVID-19 lung involvement, second group includes the clinically diagnosed cases with negative RT-PCR and positive CT imaging abnormalities, third group includes mild and asymptomatic cases with positive RT-PCR and negative CT findings, fourth group includes suspected cases with negative RT-PCR and negative CT findings.

Evaluation of painkillers according to the principles of rational drug use in patients registered to a family medicine unit.

Aims: We aimed to evaluate knowledge, attitudes and usage of the painkillers within the framework of rational drug use.

Methods: This study was conducted in a family medicine unit with a questionnaire consists of 27 questions.

Results: Total of 506 patients participated in the study.

[Evaluation of Patients Diagnosed with COVID-19 in Terms of Risk Factors].

Coronaviruses are RNA viruses that can cause disease in the upper and lower respiratory tract in humans and animals. Lately, a new coronavirus causing pneumonia cases was detected in Wuhan, China in December 2019. Soon after, the name of the virus was identified as the "severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2", and the World Health Organization named the disease coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19).

Cervix human papilloma virus positivity: Does it cause sexual dysfunction?

Objective: To investigate whether testing positive for human papilloma virus (HPV) in cervical screening has an impact on female sexual functioning.

Materials And Methods: This study was designed as a single-center, prospective, descriptive-cross-sectional study and 300 women who received HPV testing in our hospital [HPV-positive (n=187) or HPV-negative (n=113)]. The Arizona Sexual Experiences (ASEX) scale and Female Sexual Functioning index (FSFI) were administered to study participants during face-to-face interviews.