Caregiver Burden and Responsibilities for Nurses to Reduce Burnout

The world has been aging, and technology has been advancing. Increasing population and chronic diseases indicate that importance of home care will continue. Many important chronic diseases in the world-such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), hemodialysis and heart failure-affect the daily life and quality of life of the individual negatively. The patient needs help and support from the caregiver in many ways, such as using medicines, maintaining health checks, and maintaining daily living activities. In particular, in the home care process of the disease, there are difficulties in the physical, social, emotional and economical areas for both individuals and caregivers. Through the role of educator, the nurse can help to share the burden of care with family members, to give equal responsibility for each individual in the family and to plan the care period

Türkiye’de merkez sağ ve merkez sol partilerin nükleer enerji politika söyleminin karşılaştırılması

Çalışma, 1980 sonrası dönemde Türkiye’deki merkez sağ ve merkez sol partilerin nükleer enerjiye yaklaşımlarını, partilerin hükümet programları, meclis genel kurul görüşmeleri ve seçim beyannameleri üzerinden karşılaştırma yaparak incelemektedir. Türkiye’nin enerji politikalarında önemli bir yere sahip olan nükleer enerji olumlu ve olumsuz yönleriyle tartışma konusudur. Merkez sağ ve merkez sol partilerin ideolojik ve siyasi gelenekleri penceresinden bu tartışmaya nasıl yaklaştıkları çalışmanın özünü oluşturmaktadır. Nükleer enerjinin bir politika olarak siyasi partilerin seçim beyannameleri, hükümet programları, meclis genel kurul görüşmeleri referans alınarak incelenmesi ve yaklaşımlarındaki farklılığın ortaya konulması önemlidir. Çalışmanın kapsamı, 1983-2015 döneminde iktidara gelen merkez sağ ve merkez sol partilerin nükleer enerjiye yönelik politika söylemi ile sınırlandırılmıştır. Bu çerçevede nükleer enerjiye yönelik politika söyleminin analizi, ilgili partilerin hükümet programları, hükümet programlarına yönelik meclis genel kurul görüşmeleri ve seçim beyannamelerine dayandırılarak yapılmıştır. Yöntem olarak, nitel araştırma yöntemlerinden içerik analizi yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Merkez sağ partilerin nükleer enerji politika söyleminin olumlu olduğu; merkez sol partilerin ise dönemsel olarak söylem farklılığı yaşadığı fakat ağırlıklı olarak olumsuz söylem benimsediği sonucuna varılmıştır.The study examines the approaches of the centre-right and centre-left parties in Turkey to nuclear energy in the post-1980 period by comparing the parties' government programs, parliamentary general assembly meetings and election manifestos. Nuclear energy, which has an important place in Turkey's energy policies, is a matter of discussion with its positive and negative aspects. How the centre-right and centre-left parties approached this debate from the perspective of their ideological and political traditions constitutes the essence of the study. It is important to examine nuclear energy as a policy with reference to the election manifestos of political parties, government programs, parliamentary general assembly meetings and to reveal the differences in their approaches. The scope of the study, It was limited to the policy discourse on nuclear energy of the centre-right and centre-left parties that came to power in the 1983-2015 period. In this context, the analysis of the policy discourse on nuclear energy has been made based on the government programs of the relevant parties, the parliamentary general assembly meetings on government programs and election declarations. Content analysis method, which is one of the qualitative research methods, was used as a method. The nuclear energy policy discourses of the centre-right parties are positive; It has been concluded that the centre-left parties periodically experience differences in discourse, but predominantly adopt negative discourse

Herbicide-induced resistance to fusarium wilt in cotton and gossypol production of host cells

Pretreating cotton seeds with some herbicidies used in cotton-growing areas of the Çukurova region markedly increased cotton resistance to Fusarium wilt caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum. Haloxyfob and linuron reduced the mycelial growth of the pathogen in both solid and liquid cultures. However, prometryn was more effective in plant development than linuron and haloxyfob. Synthesis of Phytoalexin gossypol was significantly produced in inoculated cotton plants compared with uninoculated control plants. Maximum amounts of gossypol production were obtained in herbicide-treated and inoculated cotton plants. Gossypol extracted from herbicide-treated plants markedly reduced the mycelial growth of the pathogen in vitro.Pretreating cotton seeds with some herbicidies used in cotton-growing areas of the Çukurova region markedly increased cotton resistance to Fusarium wilt caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum. Haloxyfob and linuron reduced the mycelial growth of the pathogen in both solid and liquid cultures. However, prometryn was more effective in plant development than linuron and haloxyfob. Synthesis of Phytoalexin gossypol was significantly produced in inoculated cotton plants compared with uninoculated control plants. Maximum amounts of gossypol production were obtained in herbicide-treated and inoculated cotton plants. Gossypol extracted from herbicide-treated plants markedly reduced the mycelial growth of the pathogen in vitro

The Use of Digital Storytelling in Nursing Education, Case of Turkey: Web 2.0 Practice

WOS: 000414587900036The aim of the study was to evaluate the effects of nurse candidates' digital storytelling boards and hand-drawn storytelling boards (the current method) on processes of empathising with patients and analysing the case. The study designed in mixed research model was conducted with the 1st year nursing students in Turkey. While the experimental group used web 2.0 tools to prepare their storytelling boards, the control group used paper and pencil to prepare their storytelling boards. Storytelling boards designed by the students were analysed under the titles of empathising with patients and analysing cases and opinions of the nurse candidates about the process were assessed. The experimental group analysed cases more easily and tried to see the incidences from the others' eyes more compared to the control group. Besides, this process was an interesting and enjoyable one. Digital storytelling would be an alternative and effective teaching method for nursing education

The assessment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms in university students

Objective: In our study, we aimed to scan attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms with scale and determine the prevalence of persons who had high level of ADHD symptoms. Methods: 1961 university students participated in the study and they were given Adult ADD/ADHD DSM-IV-Based Diagnostic Screening and Rating Scale. According to results, we determined prevalence of university students who reported high degree ADHD symptoms and the difference between genders and between formal education and night school students. Results: 1961 university students were taken to the study and 63.4% (n=1244) of them were women and 36.5% (n=717) of them were men. 65.0% (n=1273) of the students were from formal education and 35.0% (n=687) were from night school of university. After statistical evaluations, we found the prevalence of students with high degree ADHD symptom as 15.55%. Men got significantly more points in hyperactivity subscale (p=0.001) and total points (p=0.047) of the scale. There was no significant difference between formal education and night school students according to ADHD symptoms. Discussion: According to results of the scale we used, the prevalence rate of students with self reported high degree of ADHD symptoms was higher than previous ADHD prevalence studies. This high rate may be due to not questioning childhood period for ADHD and not diagnosing the disorder with clinical assessment. In previous studies, it was shown that although ADHD is more common in boys, in adulthood it has an equal rate in both sexes, but in our study, we found ADHD more common in men and that may be because we assessed university students in early adulthood period. (Anatolian Journal of Psychiatry 2009; 10: 88-93

Two-year MRI-defined structural damage and patient-reported outcomes following surgery or exercise for meniscal tears in young adults

OBJECTIVE: To investigate potential differences in structural knee joint damage assessed by MRI and patient-reported outcomes (PROMs) at 2-year follow-up between young adults randomised to early surgery or exercise and education with optional delayed surgery for a meniscal tear.METHODS: A secondary analysis of a multicentre randomised controlled trial including 121 patients (18-40 years) with an MRI-verified meniscal tear. For this study, only patients with 2-year follow-up were included. The main outcomes were the difference in worsening of structural knee damage, assessed by MRI using the Anterior Cruciate Ligament OsteoArthrits Score, and the difference in change in the mean score of four Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS4) subscales covering pain, symptoms, function in sport and recreation, and quality of life, from baseline to 2 years.RESULTS: In total, 82/121 (68%) patients completed the 2-year follow-up (39 from the surgical group and 43 from the exercise group). MRI-defined cartilage damage had developed or progressed in seven (9.1%) patients and osteophytes developed in two (2.6%) patients. The worsening of structural damage from baseline to 2-year follow-up was similar between groups. The mean (95% CI) adjusted differences in change in KOOS4 between intervention groups from baseline to 2 years was -1.4 (-9.1, 6.2) points. The mean improvement in KOOS4 was 16.4 (10.4, 22.4) in the surgical group and 21.5 (15.0, 28.0) in the exercise group. No between group differences in improvement were found in the KOOS subscales.CONCLUSIONS: The 2-year worsening of MRI-defined structural damage was limited and similar in young adult patients with a meniscal tear treated with surgery or exercise with optional delayed surgery. Both groups had similar clinically relevant improvements in KOOS4, suggesting the choice of treatment strategy does not impact 2-year structural knee damage or PROMs.TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: NCT02995551.</p