cross-sectional study

The purpose of this study was to evaluate perceptions of nursing students about honour crimes and examine their beliefs about inquiring information from the victims of honour crimes. A questionnaire including demographic data was administered to a sample of 225 male and female final-year students in a nursing school. Among them, we found that significantly more male students than female students justify honour crimes. Although the majority of both male and female nursing students believed that asking for honour crimes is useful, significantly more male than female nursing students were against screening for honour crimes. This study supports the belief that gender has an influence on nurses' perceptions, attitudes and tolerance of honour crimes

Update on family medicine in Turkey - Comment

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PERCEPTIONS OF SECOND YEAR MEDICAL SCHOOL STUDENTS REGARDING AGEING AND

Introduction: Existing literature on the geriatric-related attitudes of medical students reveals inconsistent results in terms of feelings for the elderly. This study aims to determine the perceptions of medical students regarding ageing and geriatric education.Materials and Method: A qualitative study was conducted with 160 second-year medical students who visited a nursing home and responded to three open-ended questions about this experience. The responses were qualitatively analysed using the constant comparative method for themes.Results: Second year medical students indicated both positive and negative impressions of ageing. Although they generally believed that ageing brings experience and maturity, happy ageing was seen as being dependent on individual characteristics and personality factors that affect the emotional aspects of ageing and, therefore, quality of life. The students indicated recognition that ageing is related to inevitable physiological changes and a belief that most illnesses in the elderly are untreatable because of the natural decline in health related to ageing. Students indicated a sense of inadequacy in communicating with the elderly and emphasised the importance of introducing geriatric psychiatry lessons into the curriculum to improve their understanding of the elderly.Conclusion: This study provides a better understanding of the opinions of future doctors about ageing and of beliefs that should be addressed to help in the making of doctors with more positive attitudes toward older people

problem trio?

Background Waterpipe smoking and Internet addiction may result in a new public health problem globally. This study aimed to explore waterpipe use among a large group of adolescents and its association with Internet use, mental health, primarily depression and their demographic characteristics.Methods Using a stratified random sampling method, 2054 tertiary school students aged 14-18 years were recruited in 2019. Demographical information and use of tobacco products (eg, waterpipe) were explored and compared with severity of Internet addiction and mental status.Results A total of 288 (14.0%) adolescents had ever used waterpipe. Multivariate logistic regression analyses suggested that being male (OR = 2.55 and 95% CI = 1.98-3.30; P = .0001), being depressed (OR = 1.62 and 95% CI = 1.24-2.11) and excessive Internet use (OR = 1.94 and 95% CI = 1.50-2.52; P = .0001) were significantly associated with waterpipe use. Family income and parents' educational status showed no relationship with waterpipe smoking.Conclusions We suggest that adolescents who are depressed and who use the Internet excessively are at an increased risk for waterpipe use, independent of income and parenteral education.C1 [Emre, Nilufer; Edirne, Tamer; Ozsahin, Aysun] Pamukkale Univ, Med Sch, Dept Family Med, Denizli, Turkey

Update on family medicine in Turkey [2]

PubMed: 15129372[No abstract available

PERCEPTIONS OF SECOND YEAR MEDICAL SCHOOL STUDENTS REGARDING AGEING AND

Introduction: Existing literature on the geriatric-related attitudes of medical students reveals inconsistent results in terms of feelings for the elderly. This study aims to determine the perceptions of medical students regarding ageing and geriatric education.Materials and Method: A qualitative study was conducted with 160 second-year medical students who visited a nursing home and responded to three open-ended questions about this experience. The responses were qualitatively analysed using the constant comparative method for themes.Results: Second year medical students indicated both positive and negative impressions of ageing. Although they generally believed that ageing brings experience and maturity, happy ageing was seen as being dependent on individual characteristics and personality factors that affect the emotional aspects of ageing and, therefore, quality of life. The students indicated recognition that ageing is related to inevitable physiological changes and a belief that most illnesses in the elderly are untreatable because of the natural decline in health related to ageing. Students indicated a sense of inadequacy in communicating with the elderly and emphasised the importance of introducing geriatric psychiatry lessons into the curriculum to improve their understanding of the elderly.Conclusion: This study provides a better understanding of the opinions of future doctors about ageing and of beliefs that should be addressed to help in the making of doctors with more positive attitudes toward older people

Diabetik göz komplikasyonlari

In this article we reviewed the diabetic oculer complications and which is the most common of them; diabetic retinopathy, in the view of the current literature data

New immunohistochemical markers in the differential diagnosisof nonsmall cell lung carcinoma.

BACKGROUND/AIM: The aim of this study was to investigate Napsin-A, NTRK-1, NTRK-2, Desmoglein-3, and Desmocollin-3 in the differential diagnosis and prognosis of nonsmall cell lung cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The expression of Napsin-A, NTRK-1, NTRK-2, and Desmoglein-3 was examined by immunohistochemistry in 50 squamous cell carcinomas and 50 adenocarcinomas. Desmocollin-3 was investigated in 29 squamous cell carcinoma and 29 adenocarcinoma cases. Associations between expression profiles of Napsin-A, NTRK-1, NTRK-2, Desmoglein-3, and Desmocollin-3 in lung cancers and clinicopathological variables were analyzed. RESULTS: Napsin-A staining was statistically significant in detecting adenocarcinomas versus squamous cell carcinomas. The sensitivity of Napsin-A for adenocarcinomas was 96% and the specificity was 100%. NTRK-2 and Desmocollin-3 staining were statistically significant in detecting squamous cell carcinomas versus adenocarcinomas. Desmoglein-3, Napsin-A, and NTRK-2 had no effect on survival. Disease-free survival time was significantly shorter in cases that were moderately positive with NTRK-1. CONCLUSION: Our data suggest that Napsin-A, NTRK-2, and Desmocollin-3 are useful markers in the differentiation of nonsmall cell lung cancer

hypertensive patients who refer to family health centers

This cross-sectional study was carried out to investigate the factors which influence risk of anxiety and depression among diabetic and hypertensive patients who refer to family health centers. The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) was applied for assessment of emotional status of the patients and the Hypertension Compliance Assessment Scale (HCAS) was applied for assessment of adherence to anti-hypertensive therapy. Of a total of 380 patients, 170 had hypertension (HT), 83 had type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), and 127 had both HT and T2DM. According to HADS, 18.7% of the patients had risk of anxiety, 24.7% had risk of depression, and 12.6% had both risk of anxiety and depression. Mean HAD-Anxiety (HADS-A) score and HADS-Depression (HADS-D) score were significantly lower in the patients who had an adequate compliance to medication therapy (5.1 +/- 4.1 and 3.8 +/- 3.4, respectively) compared to the patients who had a low compliance to therapy (7.6 +/- 4.3 and 5.8 +/- 4.0, respectively) according to the Hypertension Compliance Assessment Scale ((2)=15.26, p<0.01 and (2)=13.80, p<0.01). Mean HADS-D score was found significantly lower among the diabetic patients with good glycemic control (3.7 +/- 2.9) compared to the patients with poor glycemic control (4.5 +/- 3.7) ((2)=25.00, p<0.05). Anxiety and depression are among the most frequent disorders as hypertension and diabetes in primary care setting. We revealed that risk of anxiety and/or depression was greater among hypertensive and diabetic patients, consistently with the previous studies. Our study also revealed that this condition negatively affected treatment compliance in hypertensive patients and glycemic control in diabetic patients