Developing critical thinking disposition and emotional intelligence of nursing students: a longitudinal research.

Background: Emotional Intelligence is considered as an important characteristic of nurses that can affect the quality of their work including clinical decision-making, critical thinking, evidence and knowledge use in practice.

Objectives: The study is aimed to determine nursing students' critical thinking disposition and emotional intelligence in an academic year.

Design: A longitudinal design.

Validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the pressure ulcer prevention knowledge assessment instrument.

Study Aim: Sound knowledge of pressure ulcers is important to enable good prevention. There are limited instruments assessing pressure ulcer knowledge. The Pressure Ulcer Prevention Knowledge Assessment Instrument is among the scales of which psychometric properties have been studied rigorously and reflects the latest evidence.

Effect of Reflexology to Depressive Symptoms in Women With Overactive Bladder.

This study is to determine the effect of foot reflexology on the level of depression in women with OAB. Study findings included in the study showed foot reflexology as a part of OAB treatment relieved urinary and depressive symptoms and had a positive effect on quality of life.

Skin disease symptoms and related risk factors among young workers in high-risk jobs.

Background: Occupational skin diseases are the one of the most frequent diseases in many industrialized countries. The studies about skin disease (SD) on young workers were limited.

Objectives: In this study, we aim to evaluate the prevalence of SD symptoms and related risk factors among young workers in high-risk occupations.

OC01 - The effect of an Interactive Therapeutic Play Training Program on the anxiety levels of children having heart surgery and their mothers.

Theme: Child protection and managing risk.

Factors associated with perceived stigma among patients with epilepsy in Turkey.

Purpose: Epilepsy is one of the most stigmatizing medical conditions. The purpose of this study was to examine the perception of stigma and factors associated with stigma.

Material And Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out among patients attending an epilepsy outpatient clinic of a university hospital between February and October 2014.

Effects of balloon inflation and cough trick methods on easing pain in children during the drawing of venous blood samples: a randomized controlled trial.

Purpose: The purpose was to determine the effects of the balloon inflation and cough trick methods on easing pain in children during the drawing of venous blood samples.

Design And Methods: In this prospective randomized controlled study, 9- to 12-year-old children in the intervention groups were asked to cough or inflate balloons during the venipuncture procedure. The Faces Pain Scale-Revised was used to assess pain intensity.

Assessment of nursing students' stress levels and coping strategies in operating room practice.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the stress levels and stress coping strategies of nursing students in their first operating room experience. This descriptive study was done with 126 nursing students who were having an experience in an operating room for the first time. Data were collected by using Personal Information Form, Clinical Stress Questionnaire, and Styles of Coping Inventory.

Delirium assessment in intensive care units: practices and perceptions of Turkish nurses.

Background: As delirium in intensive care unit (ICU) patients is a serious problem that can result in increased mortality and morbidity, routine delirium assessment of all ICU patients is recommended. The severity, duration and outcome of the syndrome are directly related to nurses' continuous assessment of patients for signs and symptoms of delirium. However, studies indicate that very few nurses monitor for delirium as a part of their daily practices.

Educational needs concerning disaster preparedness and response: a comparison of undergraduate nursing students from Istanbul, Turkey, and Miyazaki, Japan.

Aim: To compare 4 year undergraduate nursing students' educational needs concerning disaster preparedness and response in Istanbul and Miyazaki.

Methods: This was a 13 question descriptive/comparative survey.

Results: Females, aged 18-22 years, and in their second year of their nursing programs, rarely participate in disaster preparedness and response courses at their universities (75.

Relationship between self-compassion and emotional intelligence in nursing students.

Nursing focuses on meeting physical, social and emotional health-care needs of individuals, families and society. In health care, nurses directly communicate with patients and try to empathize with them. Nurses give care under emotionally intense conditions where the individual undergoes pain and distress.

Risk-taking behaviours and beliefs about fertility in university students.

Aims And Objectives: To investigate the risk-taking behaviours and beliefs about fertility among university students in Turkey.

Background: Young people are usually ignorant about reproductive health and engage in risky practices.

Design: A descriptive cross-sectional study.

Turkish adaptation of the short form of the Pelvic Organ Prolapse/Urinary Incontinence Sexual Function Questionnaire (PISQ-12): a validation and reliability study.

Aim: The purpose of this methodological study is to evaluate the reliability and validity of a Turkish adaptation of the short form of the Pelvic Organ Prolapse/Urinary Incontinence Sexual Function Questionnaire (PISQ-12) used in assessing sexuality function in women with POP/UI.

Methods: The PISQ-12 was translated into Turkish; the adaptation of the PISQ-12 to Turkish language was performed via back-translation, the content validity of the questionnaire was conducted by experts in the field, test-retest reliability was examined with 40 women with UI and/or POP. PISQ-12 was administered to 120 women with pelvic floor dysfunction.

Personal values of baccalaureate nursing students in Turkey.

Value education is aimed at helping students develop a mode of reasoning, enabling them to make decisions and deal with conflicts on a daily basis. For this, it should firstly be assessment personal values of nursing students. The purpose of the study was to determine the personal values of nursing students with respect to certain variables.

Metaphors used by in-service training nurses for in-service training nurses in Turkey.

Aim: To report a study conducted using a qualitative and quantitative study pattern with an aim to reveal the perceptions of in-service training nurses about in-service training nurses via metaphors.

Background: The in-service training nurse assumes great responsibility in the effective and efficient implementation of the educational activities in healthcare. In line with this, determining the perceptions of the in-service training nurses about in-service training nurses via metaphors and taking this into consideration in professional activities are important in terms of developing, changing, or questioning the perspectives of the in-service training nurses about their roles and developing their own training nurse identity.

The effects of personality traits on quality of life.

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of women's personality traits and some sociodemographic variables on quality of life (QoL).

Methods: This cross-sectional and correlational study was conducted among 320 Turkish women aged between 45 and 64 years who attended the Menopausal Polyclinic. Data were collected from the Turkish version of the Cervantes Personality Scale and the Turkish version of the Menopause-Specific Quality of Life Questionnaire.

Psychometric evaluation of the Turkish version of the Pediatric Symptom Checklist-17 for detecting psychosocial problems in low-income children.

Aims: To evaluate the usefulness of Pediatric Symptom Checklist-17 in identifying psychosocial problems in low-income, Turkish children.

Background: Epidemiological data indicate that 10-20% of children in primary care settings exhibit significant psychosocial problems. Early detection and treatment of these problems may lead to considerable health benefits.

Biopsychosocial risk factors for preterm birth and postpartum emotional well-being: a case-control study on Turkish women without chronic illnesses.

Aims And Objectives: The study aimed to determine bio-psycho-social risk factors for preterm birth in a sample of Turkish women without chronic illnesses and evaluate their anxiety and depression in early postpartum period.

Background: Preterm birth is a devastating event with long-term health and social implications. Studies have identified several risk factors; however, the contribution of these causes differs by ethnic groups.

Non-pharmacological interventions used by cancer patients during chemotherapy in Turkey.

Purpose: Although there are many non-pharmacological practices being recommended for symptom management, most patients prefer to use pharmacological interventions. This study assesses the non-pharmacological interventions used by cancer patients for symptom management during chemotherapy and the factors affecting its use.

Method: This study was conducted at the Istanbul University Institute of Oncology, Turkey, with 202 patients.

The usage and discontinuation of contraceptive methods.

Objective: This study aims to determine the rates of contraceptive discontinuation and usage failure and to examine their relation with termination of pregnancy.

Materials And Methods: This is a descriptive (cross-sectional) type of study. The study population was chosen among women treated at a state hospital in Karaman City, located in the southern part of Turkey.

The validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Quality of Life Index [QLI] (Cancer version).

Purpose: Quality of life always has become an important concern in the health care of cancer patients. This descriptive study was planned to assess the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of Quality of Life Index - Cancer version in the assessment of the quality of life of lung cancer patients.

Method: The validity and reliability of the scale was performed in two phases.

Observation results of handwashing by health-care workers in a neonatal intensive care unit.

This research was conducted as a descriptive study to determine the status of handwashing, which is important and an effective method of preventing and controlling hospital infections, by health-care workers in a neonatal intensive care unit and to make recommendations based on the results. The research sample included 28 health-care workers (physicians and nurses) who agreed to participate voluntarily in the study. A total of 344 observations were made of situations requiring handwashing.

Relationship between nursing students' epistemological beliefs and locus of control.

Introduction: The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between nursing students' epistemologic beliefs and locus of control, and the research was conducted at Istanbul University Florence Nightingale School of Nursing with 350 nursing students.

Methods: Data were collected using the Turkish version of the Epistemological beliefs questionnaire and Rotter's Internal-External Locus of Control Scale. In the data analysis number, percentage, mean, correlation analysis, one-way analysis of variance and Tukey HSD test were used.

Quality of life and complementary and alternative medicine use among cancer patients in Turkey.

Aim: The purpose of this study was to assess the relationships between quality of life and use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) among Turkish cancer patients.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in Istanbul University Institute of Oncology, Turkey. Two-hundred patients were invited and informed consent was obtained, however 179 cancer patients completed the study.