TR Dizin İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / TR Dizin Indexed Publications Collection
Permanent URI for this collectionhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14365/4
Browse
10 results
Search Results
Article Citation - WoS: 1Citation - Scopus: 1Workplace Violence Against Emergency Physicians: A Cross Sectional Study on the Role of Communication Skills(Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2025-04) Çalışkan, S. Ayhan; Hakverdi, Gülden; Karpınar, Mehmet SelimOBJECTIVES: Workplace violence (WPV) is a critical issue affecting healthcare professionals, posing significant risks to their safety and well being. This study investigates WPV among emergency physicians in Türkiye, examining the relationship between WPV and physicians’ communication skills. METHODS: A cross sectional study was conducted from March to June 2023, involving 63 emergency physicians recruited through a convenience sampling method. Participants completed an online survey that included demographic questions, the Turkish version of the Health Professionals Communication Skills Scale (HP CSS TR), and self evaluation items on communication skills. RESULTS: The findings revealed high WPV prevalence, with 85.7% of participants reporting verbal aggression during their residency and 90.5% during their specialty period. Physical violence was reported by 31.7% of participants during residency and 27.0% during their specialty period. Participants’ HP CSS TR scores averaged 86.08, indicating relatively high communication skills. No significant relationships were found between HP CSS TR scores and demographic characteristics such as gender, age, or years of experience. A moderate positive correlation was observed between participants’ self evaluations and their HP CSS TR scores in the dimensions of empathy and respect, suggesting alignment between perceived and actual communication skills in these areas. Weak correlations were found in informative communication and social skills, highlighting areas for improvement in communication training programs. CONCLUSIONS: This study highlights the critical issue of WPV against emergency physicians and its association with communication skills, emphasizing the complexities of high stress environments such as emergency departments. It underscores the need for continued research and systemic interventions to enhance workplace safety and the well being of healthcare professionals.Article Citation - WoS: 5Citation - Scopus: 5The Effects of Playing Digital Games on Children's Pain, Fear, and Anxiety Levels During Suturing: a Randomized Controlled Study(Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2023-07) Kavlakcı, Muhammet; Öğce, Filiz; Yavan, TulayOBJECTIVE: The aim was to determine the effects of digital game play on children's pain, fear, and anxiety levels during suturing. METHODS: Data were obtained from 84 children between the ages of 8 and 17 years at the pediatric emergency department between January 16 and March 19, 2020, using the Socio-Demographic and Clinical Characteristics Form, the Wong-Baker Faces Pain Rating Scale (WBFPS), the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), the Fear of Medical Procedures Scale (FMPS), and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children (STAI-CH). A four-block randomization system was used. The study group (n = 42) played digital games during the suturing procedure, unlike the control group (n = 42). Ethical permissions were obtained from the ethical committee, hospital, and families. RESULTS: Before the suturing procedure, there was no statistically significant difference between the groups' mean scores. The intervention group was found to have statistically significantly lower WBFPS and VAS pain scores than the control group during the suturing procedure, and after the procedure, statistically significantly lower WBFPS, VAS, FMPS, and STAI-CH mean scores than the control group. CONCLUSIONS: The digital game-playing approach applied before and during the suture procedure was found to be effective in reducing children's pain, fear, and anxiety levels.Article Citation - WoS: 4Citation - Scopus: 4Evaluation of Psychosocial Outcomes of Living Liver Donors in Liver Transplantation(Aves, 2022-04-15) Ordin, Yaprak Sarigol; Seren, Arzu Kader Harmanci; Karayurt, Ozgul; Kul, Gulay Aksu; Kılıç, Murat; Bozoklar, Cemal Ata; Tokat, Yaman; Harmancı Seren, Arzu KaderBackground: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the risk factors affecting psychosocial outcomes of living liver donors after liver transplantations. Methods: This was a descriptive, cross-sectional study. The sample consisted of living liver donors followed by 2 liver transplantation centers in 2 private hospitals in 2 different provinces, between August 2017 and October 2019. All the living liver donors were contacted without a time frame after donation and all the participants were evaluated once. The Beck Depression Scale, SF-36, General Self-Efficacy Scale, and Perceived Available Support Scale were used to collect data. The t-test, Kruskal-Wallis test, Mann-Whitney U-test, and Pearson correlation analysis were used for data analysis. Results: The mean age of the patients was 34.31 +/- 8.22 years. There was a positive, weak correlation between age and physical function. Gender, marital status, financial status, and education levels significantly affected physical components, social function, vitality, depression, and self-efficacy scores. High depression levels negatively affected the physical component, self-efficacy, and social support scores of the living liver donors. High self-efficacy positively affected social support. Conclusion: The study revealed that gender, marital status, employment status, and education levels were associated with psychosocial outcomes. The financial status was the main factor affecting each psychosocial variable. Financial status needs to be assessed in detail before and after the operation.Article Turkish Adaptation and Validation of Behavioral Inhibition Questionnaire Parent Form(Aves, 2023-01-02) Kilinc, Saliha; Bilgiç, Ayhan; Gormez, VahdetBackground: Behavioral inhibition has been proposed as a temperamental risk factor for the development of childhood anxiety disorders universally; however, there is no validated instrument for, especially, its evaluation in Turkish children. This study aimed to examine reliability and validity of the Turkish version of Behavioral Inhibition Questionnaire parent form for children aged 3-7 years. Methods: Around 250 mothers or fathers of 3-7 years old children were recruited from non-clinical population to collect responses to the questionnaires. The sample was created by reaching 3 schools at preschool or elementary grade for the purpose of providing the questionnaires filled about the student and/or his/her little sisters and brothers by their parents; questionnaires were sent out to parents and then gathered. Parents were asked to fill sociodemographic data form, Behavioral Inhibition Questionnaire parent form, Children Behavior Questionnaire, and Strengths and Difficulties Questionaire parent form in order to perform convergent and divergent validity analyses. Results: As a result of reliability analysis, total Cronbach alpha coefficient for Behavioral Inhibition Questionnaire was determined as 0.92 with strong reliability. The internal consistency coefficients for Behavioral Inhibition Questionnaire subscales also showed strong reliability with alphas ranging between 0.81 and 0.87 except for the performance (a = 0.69) and physical challenges (a = 0.19) subscales of which some items were excluded due to item-total correlations and confirmatory factor analysis results. In the validity assessment analyses, confirmatory factor analysis demonstrated that Behavioral Inhibition Questionnaire has a construct validity with 5 factors loaded on the 2-second order main factors and one third-order final factor (root mean square error = 0.032, root mean square residual = 0.153, Comparative Fit Index = 0.978, Goodness of Fit Index = 0.915, and Turker-Lewis Index = 0.970). While the strongest correlations with the overall Behavioral Inhibition Questionnaire score were found for 2 main subscales, inhibition to social novelties (r = 0.926, P <.001) and situational novelties (r = 0.928, P <.001), similarly peers (r = 0.848, P <.001) and new situations (r = 0.898, P <.001) subscales, had strong correlations with the overall Behavioral Inhibition Questionnaire score. The weakest correlation with overall Behavioral Inhibition Questionnaire score was observed for physical challenges subscale even though this subscale displayed moderate association (r = 0.454, P <.001). A good convergent validity was determined accompanied by significant moderate positive correlations with Children Behavior Questionnaire shyness and Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire internalizing scales. An adequate divergent validity was also demonstrated based on significant positive mild to moderate correlations with Children Behavior Questionnaire impulsivity, Children Behavior Questionnaire smiling/laugh, Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire prosocial scales, and nonsignificant correlation with Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire externalizing scale. Conclusion: The study demonstrated that the Turkish version of the Behavioral Inhibition Questionnaire parent form is an effective tool with good reliability and validity among 3-7 years old children.Article Citation - WoS: 19Citation - Scopus: 17Evaluation of Illness Perception of Women With Breast Cancer in Turkey(Aves, 2019-04-04) Karabulutlu, Elanur Yilmaz; Avci, Iliknur Aydin; Karayurt, Orgul; Gursoy, Ayla; Kosgeroglu, Nedime; Tuna, Arzu; Ersin, Fatma; Karaman, SedaObjective: The aim of this study is to examine the illness perceptions of women with breast cancer and possible relationships between these perceptions and descriptive characteristics such as sociodemographic and clinical characteristics in Turkey. Materials and Methods: The study was conducted in compliance with correlational, descriptive research principles. Three hundred eighty women with breast cancer who were treated in various hospitals in seven regions of the country were included in the study. A sociodemographic and clinical characteristics form, and The Illness Perception Questionnaire were used for data collection. Results: The mean age of the patients with breast cancer was 49.8 +/- 11.5, among them, 83.95% were married, 37.37% were at stage 2 breast cancer, and 67.11% experienced mastectomy. It was found that the patients perceived higher personal control over illness (20.88 +/- 4.76). The patients perceived most common risk factors as the cause of the illness (19.42 +/- 6.38). This study show that variety sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of the patients affected their perceptions of illness. Conclusion: The meaning of illness from the perspective of patient with breast cancer should be assessed. The care, education and counselling programs should be planned according to the patient's illness perceptions.Article Citation - WoS: 1Psychometric Evaluation of the Implicit Positive and Negative Affect Test in Turkish Samples(Turkiye Sinir Ve Ruh Sagligi Dernegi, 2019) Peker, Mehmet; Mese, Gulgun; Ersoy, Nevra CemObjective: Implicit affect is a concept distinct from explicit affect as it describes the affect processed by the individual at a preconscious level. The aim of this research is to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Turkish form of the Implicit Positive and Negative Affect Test (IPANAT-TR), originally developed by Quirin et al. (2009a) to measure affect indirectly. Method: The study data comprised of psychology and sociology students from Ege University, and full-time and part-time employees from public and private organizations in Izmir. A pilot study was carried out with a group of 57 undergraduate students in order to select the artificial words to be used in the scale. Subsequently the scale was sent to a total of 938 participants, comprising 569 students and 369 employees. Test-retest reliability was assessed with 46 participants after a one-week interval and with 55 participants after a four-week interval. Results: The principal components analysis showed a clear two-factor structure for the IPANAT-TR. The internal consistency scores were 0.92 for Implicit Positive Affect (IPA) and 0.85 for Implicit Negative Affect (INA). The one-week and four-week test retest reliability estimates varied between 0.51 and 0.75. The construct validity assessments showed that the expected relationships between the IPANAT-TR and tested constructs were mostly confirmed. The results of measurement invariance analysis showed that the IPANAT-TR has full measurement invariance across employee and student samples. Conclusion: The results of the reliability, validity and measurement invariance analyses carried out in the current study demonstrated that the IPANAT-TR is a reliable and valid measurement instrument to assess implicit affect.Article Citation - WoS: 5Citation - Scopus: 5The Validity and Reliability of the Turkish Version of the Physical Activity Scale for Individuals With Physical Disabilities (pasipd)(Tubitak Scientific & Technical Research Council Turkey, 2019) Ulas, Kardem; Topuz, Semra; Dinc Horasan, Gonul; Horasan, Gönül DinçBackground/aim: The aim of this study is to assess the validity and reliability of Turkish translation of the Physical Activity Scale for Individuals with Physical Disabilities (PASIPD) in a disabled Turkish population. Materials and methods: Following the translation protocol of the PASIPD, the Turkish version of the PASIPD, Short Form-36, and International Physical Activity Questionnaire were administered to 198 developmentally and physically disabled individuals. Results: The Turkish version of the PASIPD was found to be reliable. The domains of the Turkish version of the PASIPD were also found to be valid. Pour factors were obtained from the questionnaire. The ICC was 1.0 since all the respondents reported the same answers in the test and retest. The Cronbach alpha for the PASIPD was 0.60. Conclusion: The Turkish version of the PASIPD survey is valid and reliable for developmentally and physically disabled Turkish individuals and professionals can use it to assess physical activity level.Article Citation - WoS: 32Citation - Scopus: 32Covid-19 Anxiety in People Living With Hiv: an Online Cross-Sectional Study(Tubitak Scientific & Technical Research Council Turkey, 2020-12-17) Kuman Tuncel, Ozlem; Pullukcu, Husnu; Erdem, Huseyin Aytac; Kurtaran, Behice; Tasbakan, Selin Ece; Isikgoz Tasbakan, Meltem; Tuncel, Ozlem KumanBackground/aim: The emergence of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak has had an enormous emotional impact on sonic vulnerable groups, such as people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (PLHIV). This study was planned with the aim of assessing the anxiety levels of PLHIV and the sources of their anxiety. Materials and methods: A web-based questionnaire was sent to PLHIV using the virtual snowball sampling method. The questionnaire included questions about sociodemographic status, information about HIV infection, and the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI). Additionally, some opinions of the participants about COVID-19 were asked. Results: A total of 307 respondents, with a median age of 33 years, from 32 different cities, participated in the study. More than half of the respondents reported the belief that COVID-19 was not sufficiently well-known by the medical community and nearly 45% believed that they would have snore complications if they contracted COVID-19. One-fourth of the participants had anxiety. Having a preexisting psychiatric disorder, perceiving that they were practicing insufficient preventive measures, not being sure about the presence of any individuals with COVID-19 in their environment, and living with a household member with a chronic disease were found to be the risk factors of PLHIV for having anxiety during this pandemic. The BAI scores were correlated with the patient-reported anxiety levels about the spread of COVID-19 in Turkey, acquiring COVID-19, transmitting COVID-19 to another person, and transmitting HIV to another person. Among the stated conditions, the most common concern was the spread of COVID-19 all over the country, while the least common was transmitting HIV to someone else. Conclusion: The results revealed that a significant proportion of the sample had anxiety, and the findings were essential for developing evidence-based strategies for decreasing the anxiety of PLHIV, especially for those who had risk factors and to provide them with better health care during this pandemic or other pandemic-like crises.Review Article Citation - WoS: 2Citation - Scopus: 4Innovations in Neurophysiology and Their Use in Neuropsychiatry(Turkish Neuropsychiatry Assoc-Turk Noropsikiyatri Dernegi, 2022) Yener, Görsev; Öz, DidemMany structural and functional tests are used to explore the nature of neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases. Cognitive involvement has become more and more remarkable in many neurological and psychiatric disorders. This condition evoked a paradigm shift, and today disorders are addressed from a neuroscientific perspective, including silent symptoms. The spatial resolution of structural studies is lacking and is combined with the unique temporal resolution of EEG methods. In our current clinical practice, EEG does not have definitive diagnostic value in psychiatric disorders, but it helps to make a correct diagnosis by excluding other neurological diseases. However, the use of EEG for research purposes is promising in both groups. In this review; there is up-to-date information on the use of electrophysiological examinations in neurological diseases, especially Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Frontotemporal dementia, and psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, mood disorders, attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, to define the point we have reached in our journey to understand these disorders.Article Citation - WoS: 2Citation - Scopus: 1Towards Automaticity in Reinforcement Learning: a Model-Based Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study(Turkish Neuropsychiatry Assoc-Turk Noropsikiyatri Dernegi, 2019) Erdeniz, Burak; Done, JohnIntroduction: Previous studies showed that over the course of learning many neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex adapt their firing rate towards the options with highest predicted value reward but it was showed that during later learning trials the brain switches to a more automatic processing mode governed by the basal ganglia. Based on this evidence, we hypothesized that during the early learning trials the predicted values of chosen options will be coded by a goal directed system in the medial frontal cortex but during the late trials the predicted values will be coded by the habitual learning system in the dorsal striatum. Methods: In this study, using a 3 Tesla functional magnetic resonance imaging scanner (fMRI), blood oxygen level dependent signal (BOLD) data was collected whilst participants (N=12) performed a reinforcement learning task. The task consisted of instrumental conditioning trials wherein each trial a participant choose one of the two available options in order to win or avoid losing money. In addition to that, depending on the experimental condition, participants received either monetary reward (gain money), monetary penalty (lose money) or neural outcome. Results: Using model-based analysis for functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) event related designs; region of interest (ROI) analysis was performed to nucleus accumbens, medial frontal cortex, caudate nucleus, putamen and globus pallidus internal and external segments. In order to compare the difference in brain activity for early (goal directed) versus late learning (habitual, automatic) trials, separate ROI analyses were performed for each anatomical sub-region. For the reward condition, we found significant activity in the medial frontal cortex (p<0.05) only for early learning trials but activity is shifted to bilateral putamen (p<0.05) during later trials. However, for the loss condition no significant activity was found for early trials except globus pallidus internal segment showed a significant activity (p<0.05) for later trials. Conclusion: We found that during reinforcement learning activation in the brain shifted from the medial frontal regions to dorsal regions of the striatum. These findings suggest that there are two separable (early goal directed and late habitual) learning systems in the brain.