Effects of hand massage and acupressure therapy for mechanically ventilated patients

Purpose: This research is an experimental study (randomized controlled) which is carried out to investigate the effect on anxiety of hand massage and acupressure therapy in patients having mechanical ventilation support.Method and material: This randomized controlled research was conducted in Intensive care units of Ege University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Chest Diseases and Dr. Suat Seren Chest Diseases and Chest Surgery Training and Research Hospital between the dates 18 June 2007 and 3 May 2008. The research sample was comprised of a total of 70 patients who met the research criteria in the hand massage and acupressure (n=35) and control (n =35) groups. Data were collected by using Patient Information Form, Patient Record Form and Visual Analogue Scale. It was following patients in experimental and control groups during seven days. It was recorded physiological indicators of anxiety, perceived anxiety and dyspnoea of patients in control group. These patients weren’t used hand massage and acupressure therapy. The patients in experimental group weren’t used hand massage and acupressure therapy in the first and seventh days. It was recorded physiological indicators of anxiety, perceived anxiety and dyspnoea. The other days, it was used hand massage and acupressure therapy. It was recorded physiological indicators of anxiety, perceived anxiety and dyspnoea This research is an experimental study (randomized controlled) which is carried out to investigate the effect on anxiety of hand massage and acupressure therapy in patients having mechanical ventilation support. Research was conducted in Intensive care units of Ege University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Chest Diseases and Dr. Suat Seren Chest Diseases and Chest Surgery Training and Research Hospital between the dates 18 June 2007 and 3 May 2008. The research sample was comprised of a total of 70 patients who met the research criteria in the hand massage and acupressure (n=35) and control (n =35) groups. Data were collected by using Patient Information Form, Patient Record Form and Visual Analogue Scale. It was following patients in experimental and control groups during seven days. It was recorded physiological indicators of anxiety, perceived anxiety and dyspnoea of patients in control group. These patients weren’t used hand massage and acupressure therapy. The patients in experimental group weren’t used hand massage and acupressure therapy in the first and seventh days. It was recorded physiological indicators of anxiety, perceived anxiety and dyspnoea. The other days, it was used hand massage and acupressure therapy. Hand massage and acupressure therapy was limited to 18 minutes. It was recorded physiological indicators of anxiety, perceived anxiety and dyspnoea before and after hand massage and acupressure therapy. It was calculated intensive care unit costs and determined duration in intensive care unit after discharge of patients in experimental and control groups. In the data analysis were used chi square, repeated measures analysis of variance, independent samples t test, paired samples t test, LSD (Least-Significant difference) tests.Results: According to the research findings, it wasn’t found significant as clinical which is the statistically significant difference in the physiological indicators of anxiety, perceived anxiety and dyspnoea except from oxygen saturation.Conclusion: In conclusion, our results suggest that hand massage and acupressure therapy might effectively relieve perceived dyspnoea and anxiety and reduce physiological indicators of anxiety in patients having mechanical ventilation support. The study provides a research-based intervention model for clinicians caring for MVP

The effect on sleep quality of music in older people in rest homeHuzurevinde yaşayan yaşlılarda müziğin uyku kalitesine etkisi

Purpose: This research is an experimental randomized controlled study (pretest-posttest control group of the study) which is carried out to investigate the effect on sleep quality of two different types of music in older people who had poor quality of sleep in rest home.Method and material: Research was conducted in a rest home in İzmir between the dates November 2010 and February 2012. The research sample was comprised of a total of 35 older persons who met the research criteria in the Turkish Art Music (n=18) and Western Classical Music (n =17) groups. Data were collected by using Elderly Information Form, State Trait Anxiety Inventory, Geriatric Depression Scale, International Physical Activity Questionnaire, Sleep Log and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. It was following elderly people in groups during three weeks. The older people listened 30 minutes of music prior to bedtime. The sleep quality of older people was measured with the PSQI one weekly before music and the three weeks when the music was listened. In the data analysis were used chi square, repeated measures analysis of variance, Mann Whitney U test and LSD (Least-Significant difference) tests.Results: According to the research findings, the PSQI total mean scores of older people in both groups were lower on the weeks when the music was done than prior to music (p<0.05). It was found that the music increased older persons’ sleep quality in TAM and WCM groups. The findings of this study indicated that music has a positive effect on improvement of sleep quality.Conclusion: As a result, this method in practice for nurses have recommended that it was significant in sleep quality of two different types of music in older people in rest home.  ÖzetAmaç: Bu araştırma, huzurevinde yaşayan uyku kalitesi kötü olan yaşlı bireylerde iki farklı müzik türünün uyku kalitesine etkisini incelemek amacıyla yapılmış randomize kontrollü deneysel (ön test-son test kontrol gruplu çalışma)  bir çalışmadır.Yöntem: Araştırma, Kasım 2010 – Şubat 2012 tarihleri arasında İzmir’de bir huzurevinde yürütülmüştür. Araştırmanın örneklemini,  araştırma örneklem seçim kriterlerine uyan 18’i Türk Sanat Müziği (TSM), 17’si Klasik Batı Müziği (KBM) grubu olmak üzere toplam 35 yaşlı oluşturmuştur. Araştırmanın verileri, Yaşlı Tanıtım Formu, Durumluk-Sürekli Anksiyete Ölçeği, Geriatrik Depresyon Ölçeği, Uluslararası Fiziksel Aktivite Anketi, Günlük Uyku Kayıt Formu ve Pittsburgh Uyku Kalitesi İndeksi uygulanarak toplanmıştır. TSM ve KBM grubundaki yaşlılar üç hafta süresince takip edilmiştir. Yaşlılara, yatma saatinden önce 30 dakika süreyle müzik dinletilmiştir. Yaşlıların uyku kalitesi, müzik uygulanmadan önceki bir hafta ve müziğin dinletildiği üç hafta PUKİ ile ölçüldü. Verilerin analizinde ki-kare, tekrarlayan ölçümlerde varyans analizi, Mann Whitney U testi ve LSD (Least-Significant difference) testi kullanılmıştır.Bulgular: Araştırma bulgularına göre; her iki gruptaki yaşlılarda, müziğin dinletildiği haftalardaki PUKİ toplam puan ortalamaları müziğin uygulanmadığı haftaya göre daha düşüktü (p<0.05). Müziğin, TSM ve KBM gruplarındaki yaşlıların uyku kalitesini arttırdığı bulundu. Bu çalışmanın bulguları, müziğin uyku kalitesini iyileştirmede pozitif bir etkiye sahip olduğunu göstermektedir.Sonuç: Sonuç olarak, huzurevinde yaşayan yaşlılarda iki farklı müzik türünün uyku kalitesinde anlamlı bir değişiklik meydana getirmesi nedeniyle bu yöntemin hemşireler tarafından uygulanması önerilmektedir

Crizotinib efficacy and safety in patients with advanced NSCLC harboring MET alterations: A real-life data of Turkish Oncology Group

Crizotinib is a multikinase inhibitor, effective in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) harboring mesenchymal-epidermal transition (MET) alterations. Although small prospective studies showed efficacy and safety of crizotinib in NSCLC with MET alterations, there is limited real-life data. Aim of this study is to investigate real-life efficacy and safety of crizotinib in patients with advanced NSCLC harboring MET alterations. This was a retrospective, multicenter (17 centers) study of Turkish Oncology Group. Patients' demographic, histological data, treatment, response rates, survival outcomes, and toxicity data were collected. Outcomes were presented for the study population and compared between MET alteration types. Total of 62 patients were included with a median age of 58.5 (range, 26-78). Major histological type was adenocarcinoma, and 3 patients (4.8%) had sarcomatoid component. The most common MET analyzing method was next generation sequencing (90.3%). MET amplification and mutation frequencies were 53.2% (n = 33) and 46.8% (n = 29), respectively. Overall response rate and disease control rate were 56.5% and 74.2% in whole study population, respectively. Median progression free survival (PFS) was 7.2 months (95% confidence interval [CI]: 3.8-10.5), and median overall survival (OS) was 18.7 months (95% CI: 13.7-23.7), regardless of treatment line. Median PFS was 6.1 months (95% CI: 5.6-6.4) for patients with MET amplification, whereas 14.3 months (95% CI: 6.7-21.7) for patients with MET mutation (P = .217). Median PFS was significantly longer in patients who have never smoked (P = .040), have good performance score (P < .001), and responded to the treatment (P < .001). OS was significantly longer in patients with MET mutation (25.6 months, 95% CI: 15.9-35.3) compared to the patients with MET amplification (11.0 months; 95% CI: 5.2-16.8) (P = .049). In never-smokers, median OS was longer than smoker patients (25.6 months [95% CI: 11.8-39.3] vs 16.5 months [95% CI: 9.3-23.6]; P = .049). The most common adverse effects were fatigue (50%), peripheral edema (21%), nausea (29%) and diarrhea (19.4%). Grade 3 or 4 adverse effects were observed in 6.5% of the patients. This real-life data confirms efficacy and safety of crizotinib in the treatment of advanced NSCLC harboring MET alteration

Which Ground Do Your Feet Touch? On the Metaverse, Image, and the Materiality of Architecture

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Free(?) space at the 2018 Venice Biennale

In his article ‘Out of Site/In Plain View: On the Origins and Actuality of the Architecture Exhibition’, architectural historian and curator Barry Bergdoll starts by asking the obvious question: ‘What does it mean to exhibit architecture? Isn’t architecture, once it is built, always already on display?’1 Despite always being on display, however, architecture escapes being exhibited. Because we cannot exhibit architecture in the way an artist can exhibit a painting or a sculpture.WOS:000452642800018Scopus - Affiliation ID: 60105072Arts and Humanities Citation IndexEditorial MaterialUluslararası işbirliği ile yapılmayan - HAYIRMart2019YÖK - 2018-1

A time for solidarity: Rethinking the architectural establishment in the age of covid-19

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Art museums and the middle east: a contested territory

The Architectural Spotlight section addresses recent projects, debates and events that shape the architectural discourse and practice in Muslim-majority countries as well as in diasporic Muslim communities. In this section, contemporary architectural concerns in diverse cultural, economic, and social conditions are discussed to move toward the varied meanings of 'architecture'in recent geographies of Islam in its global dimensions.WOS:000505606100019Arts and Humanities Citation IndexEditorial MaterialUluslararası işbirliği ile yapılmayan - HAYIRMart2020YÖK - 2019-2

Contesting labels: Revisiting old questionnaires

As a response to several questionnaires, manifestos, interviews, and letters that were included in the book Modern Art in the Arab World: Primary Documents, this article carries out a new questionnaire with seven artists form various backgrounds and geographies, in an attempt to update and re-question some of the issues that were highlighted in the collected essays. The questionnaire includes three questions, each focusing on a different issue. The first issue considers the validity of the term “Arab Art,” the second tries to identify the main dynamics of contemporary artistic production, and the last one questions the relation of contemporary production of arts to geography and history. The following interviews have been edited for consistency and clarity.WOS:000579793900006Scopus - Affiliation ID: 60105072Emerging Sources Citation IndexArticleHaziran2020YÖK - 2019-2