The role of mindfulness between childhood abuse and trait anxiety

WOS: 000455035700006Bilinçli farkındalık (mindfulness) son yıllarda psikolojik sağlık üzerinde koruyucu bir özellik (trait) olarak (Bränström ve ark., 2011) ve psikolojik bir müdahale yöntemi olarak ilgi çeken bir kavramdır (Kimbrough ve ark., 2010). Mevcut çalışmanın amacı, çocukluk çağı örselenme yaşantılarının sürekli kaygı üzerindeki doğrudan ve bilinçli farkındalık aracılığıyla dolaylı etkilerinin incelenmesidir. Çalışmanın örneklemini yaş ortalaması 22.89 (S = 3.34) olan 264 (%56.5) kadın ve 203 (%43.5) erkek olmak üzere toplam 467 kişi oluşturmaktadır. Veri toplama amacı ile Demografik Bilgi Formu, Çocukluk Örselenme Yaşantıları Ölçeği, Bilinçli Farkındalık Ölçeği ve Sürekli Kaygı Envanteri kullanılmıştır. Bilinçli farkındalık düzeyinin aracı rolünü test etmek amacıyla Hayes (2013) tarafından geliştirilmiş olan PROCESS makro eklentisi kullanılmıştır. Buna göre, çocukluk çağı fiziksel, cinsel ve duygusal ihmal ve istismar yaşantıları ile sürekli kaygı düzeyi arasındaki ilişkide bilinçli farkındalığın aracı rol oynadığı bulunmuştur. Sonuç olarak, çocukluk çağı örselenme yaşantıları ve sürekli kaygının bilinçli farkındalık ile birlikte ele alınmasıyla daha kapsamlı bir açıklamaya ulaşıldığı; bunun da psikolojik müdahale ve önleme çalışmaları için değerli bilgiler sunabileceği düşünülmektedir.Mindfulness is a recent interesting concept that is known to be a protective trait in terms of psychological well-being (Branstrom et al., 2011) and it is being used as a psychological intervention method (Kimbrough et al., 2010). The main purpose of this study was to examine the direct effect of childhood traumatic experiences on trait anxiety as well as its indirect (mediated) effect through mindfulness. The sample of the study consisted of 467 participants; 264 female (56.5%) and 203 male (43.5%). The average age of the sample was 22.89 (SD = 3.34). Demographic Information Form, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, Mindful Attention Awareness Scale and Trait Anxiety Inventory were used to collect data. The mediator role of the mindfulness was examined with PROCESS macro by Hayes (2013). Results indciated that mindfulness plays a mediating role between childhood abuse and neglect experiences and trait anxiety. Consequently, studying childhood traumatic experiences and trait anxiety with mindfulness is thought to provide a comprehensive explanation on this issue. It could also provide valuable knowledge and insights on intervention and prevention studies

Creating a syntactically felicitous constituency treebank for Turkish

In this study, Bakay et. al [1] and Yildiz et. al.'s [2] work on Turkish constituency treebanks were developed further. Compared to the previous work, the most prominent feature of this study is the fact that every annotation and refinement process is held manually. In addition, constituency treebank created as a result of this study abides by the syntactic rules and typologic features of Turkish while the trees created by previous studies convey only the translated and simply inverted trees that completely ignore the syntactic properties of Turkish. The methodology followed in this study resulted in a significantly more accurate representation of Turkish language and simpler, relatively flatter trees. The straightforward style of trees in this study reduces the complexity and offers a better training dataset for learning algorithms.Publisher's Versio

On building the largest and cross-linguistic Turkish dependency corpus

In this paper, we aim to introduce the dependency annotation process of the largest and the only cross-linguistic Turkish dependency treebank which was translated from the original Penn Treebank corpus. Within the scope of this project, 16.400 sentences have been morphologically and semantically annotated, and the dependency relations were manually carried out by a team of linguists. It is hoped that this project will serve as a base for a successful dependency parser and a system which can automatically perform the bi-directional conversion between constituency and dependency trees.Publisher's Versio

Morpholex Turkish: a morphological Lexicon for Turkish

MorphoLex is a study in which root, prefix and suffixes of words are analyzed. With MorphoLex, many words can be analyzed according to certain rules and a useful database can be created. Due to the fact that Turkish is an agglutinative language and the richness of its language structure, it offers different analyzes and results from previous studies in MorphoLex. In this study, we revealed the process of creating a database with 48,472 words and the results of the differences in language structure

Distribution of Gene Mutations Associated with Familial Normosmic Idiopathic Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism

Objective: Normosmic idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (nIHH) is characterized by failure of initiation or maintenance of puberty due to insufficient gonadotropin release, which is not associated with anosmia/hyposmia. The objective of this study was to determine the distribution of causative mutations in a hereditary form of nIHH. Methods: In this prospective collaborative study, 22 families with more than one affected individual (i.e. multiplex families) with nIHH were recruited and screened for genes known or suspected to be strong candidates for nIHH. Results: Mutations were identified in five genes (GNRHR, TACR3, TAC3, KISS1R, and KISS1) in 77% of families with autosomal recessively inherited nIHH. GNRHR and TACR3 mutations were the most common two causative mutations occurring with about equal frequency. Conclusions: Mutations in these five genes account for about three quarters of the causative mutations in nIHH families with more than one affected individual. This frequency is significantly greater than the previously reported rates in all inclusive (familial plus sporadic) cohorts. GNRHR and TACR3 should be the first two genes to be screened for diagnostic purposes. Identification of causative mutations in the remaining families will shed light on the regulation of puberty. Conflict of interest:None declared

Distribution of Gene Mutations Associated with Familial Normosmic Idiopathic Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism

Objective: Normosmic idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (nIHH) is characterized by failure of initiation or maintenance of puberty due to insufficient gonadotropin release, which is not associated with anosmia/hyposmia. The objective of this study was to determine the distribution of causative mutations in a hereditary form of nIHH

Impact of Obesity on the Metabolic Control of Type 2 Diabetes: Results of the Turkish Nationwide Survey of Glycemic and Other Metabolic Parameters of Patients with Diabetes Mellitus (TEMD Obesity Study)

Background: Obesity is the main obstacle for metabolic control in patients with type 2 diabetes. Turkey has the highest prevalence of obesity and type 2 diabetes in Europe. The effect of obesity on the metabolic control, and the macro-and microvascular complications of patients are not apparent. Objectives: This nationwide survey aimed to investigate the prevalence of overweight and obesity among patients with type 2 diabetes and to search for the impact of obesity on the metabolic control of these patients. We also investigated the independent associates of obesity in patients with type 2 diabetes. Methods: We consecutively enrolled patients who were under follow-up for at least 1 year in 69 tertiary healthcare units in 37 cities. The demographic, anthropometric, and clinical data including medications were recorded. Patients were excluded if they were pregnant, younger than 18 years, had decompensated liver disease, psychiatric disorders interfering with cognition or compliance, had bariatric surgery, or were undergoing renal replacement therapy. Results: Only 10% of patients with type 2 diabetes (n = 4,648) had normal body mass indexes (BMI), while the others were affected by overweight (31%) or obesity (59%). Women had a significantly higher prevalence of obesity (53.4 vs. 40%) and severe obesity (16.6 vs. 3.3%). Significant associations were present between high BMI levels and lower education levels, intake of insulin, antihypertensives and statins, poor metabolic control, or the presence of microvascular complications. Age, gender, level of education, smoking, and physical inactivity were the independent associates of obesity in patients with type 2 diabetes. Conclusion: The TEMD Obesity Study shows that obesity is a major determinant of the poor metabolic control in patients with type 2 diabetes. These results underline the importance of prevention and management of obesity to improve health care in patients with type 2 diabetes. Also, the results point out the independent sociodemographic and clinical associates of obesity, which should be the prior targets to overcome, in the national fight with obesity. (c) 2019 The Author(s) Published by S. Karger AG, Base

Turkish nationwide survEy of glycemic and other Metabolic parameters of patients with Diabetes mellitus (TEMD study)

Aims: Turkey has the highest prevalence of diabetes in Europe. It is therefore essential to know the overall cardiovascular risk and reveal the predictors of metabolic control in Turkish adults with diabetes mellitus