Psychological Resilience and Positivity as Predictors of Self-Efficacy

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between self-efficacy, a concept that has an important role in human life, and different demographic variables and the predictive roles of psychological resilience and positivity on self- efficacy. The research was carried out with 844 students studying at four different universities in provinces of Istanbul, Samsun, Bursa and Ankara in Turkey. Participants completed the questionnaire packet including the General Self-Efficacy Scale, the Brief Psychological Resilience Scale, the Positivity Scale and a personal information form. The analyses of the data were carried out via SPSS 20. The results showed that the female subjects tended to report lower self-efficacy than the males and participants living in cities and high income participants reported higher self-efficacy than the participants living in villages or small towns and the low income participants. Additionally, it may be stated that the participants who perceived their parents as democratic, negligent and protective reported higher levels of self-efficacy than those who perceived their parents as authoritarian. The results also indicated a moderate positive relationship between psychological resilience and self-efficacy, and a low positive correlation between self-efficacy and positivity. Psychological resilience and positivity were found to be important predictors of self-efficacy

Bir Meslek Hastalığı Olarak Lateral Epikondilit

2Selçuk Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Fiziksel Tıp ve Rehabilitasyon Anabilim Dalı, Konya Lateral epikondilit, humerusun lateral epikondili üzerine yapışan ekstansör kas tendonlarının klinik inflamasyonudur. Aşırı kullanım ve sürekli tekrarlayıcı hareketler sonucu oluşur. Musluk tamircilerinde, ev hanımlarında, tenisçilerde, demir işlemeciliğiyle uğraşan- larda sık görülür. En belirgin bulgusu dirsek lateral ağrısıdır. Bu vaka sunumunda dirsek ağrısı şikayetiyle polikliniğimize başvuran lateral epikondilit tanısı konan hasta sunuld

Classification of Turkish documents

İnternetin hızla gelişmesi elektronik ortamdaki bilgileri ve işlemleri arttırmıştır. Fakat, bu ortamlarda depolanan ve işlenen bilgilerin boyutunun artması aranan bilgiye erişmekte problemler çıkarmıştır. Bu doğrultuda, kullanıcıların istedikleri bilgiye daha doğru ve hızlı bir şekilde ulaşma ihtiyacı doğmuştur ve elektronik ortamdaki dokümanların sınıflandırılmasında yeni metotların geliştirilmesi çalışmaları devam etmektedir. Bu çalışmada, Türkçe metin içerikli web sitelerinden elde edilen dokümanların sınıflandırılması amaçlanmaktadır. Dokümanlar, gövde tabanlı, sözcük tabanlı, hece tabanlı ve karakter tabanlı olmak üzere dört farklı kategoride ele alınmıştır. Gövde, sözcük, hece ve karakterler için n-gram analizleri yapılmıştır. Sistem K-En Yakın Komşu Modeli (K-NN), Çok Katmanlı Algılayıcı Modeli (MLP) ve Destek Vektör Makinesi (SVM) olmak üzere üç farklı yöntem ile eğitilmiş ve test edilmiştir. Çalışmanın gerçekleştirilmesinde eğitim ve test olmak üzere iki derlem oluşturulmuştur. Her biri internet ortamından temin edilen 75'er doküman içeren eğitim, ekonomi, kültür-sanat, otomobil, sağlık ve spor sınıfları ele alınmıştır. Bu dokümanlardan 25'er tane alınarak toplamda 150 doküman sistemin eğitilmesinde, 50'şer tane alınarak toplamda 300 doküman da sistemin test edilmesinde kullanılmıştır. Çalışmada sisteme verilen dokümanlar öncelikle önişlemden geçirilmiştir. Önişlemden geçirilen dokümanların frekansları ve olasılıkları hesaplandıktan sonra her bir sınıf için öznitelik vektör veritabanı oluşturulmuştur. Öznitelik vektör veritabanı oluşturulurken sözcüklerin dokümanlarda karşılaştırılmasında eşik değeri olarak 0,25, 0,50, 0,75 ve 0,90 değerleri kullanılmış. Eğitim setindeki dokümanlar sisteme verilmiş ve her bir sınıf için oluşturulan öznitelik vektör veritabanındaki sözcükler ile karşılaştırılarak dokümanın hangi sınıfa dahil olduğu belirlenmiştir. Daha sonra test setindeki dokümanlar sisteme verilmiş ve sistemin başarısı, kesinlik skoru, hassasiyet skoru, F-ölçüsü ve doğruluk değerlerine göre tespit edilmiştir. Sonuç olarak en yüksek doğruluk başarı oranı SVM metodu kullanılarak sözcük 1-gramlarda %99,9 olarak bulunmuştur. F-ölçüsü değeri de %99,7 olmuştur.Advancing the technologies of Internet has caused a great deal of digital information and operations. But, because of great amount of digital information, there are some difficulties to reach the information which is stored in databases and processed by systems. In this way, the users in information technology require to reach the information faster and more robust. For that reason, in the classification of the documents in digital technology, the studies about development of new approaches are ongoing. In this study, we aimed to the classification of the documents which are obtained from Turkish web sites. The documents are categorized to some different classes according to word, stem, syllable and character based approaches. At the same time, n-grams of above units are also used for the classification. The developed systems classify the web based documents with the methods: K-Nearest Neighbor (K-NN), Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) and Support Vector Machine (SVM). The systems which use MLP and SVM have been trained and tested. For training and testing operations, two corpora are generated from Turkish web pages. The documents are classified into 6 different classes as "education", "economy", "art and culture", "automobile", "health" and "sport". Each class includes 25 documents and 50 documents in training and testing sets respectively. Thus, the corpora have totally 450 documents for training and testing operations. In preprocessing stage of the system, all unnecessary characters such as punctuation marks are removed from the documents. All capital letters are converted to lower case and only one space character is allowed between two consecutive words. After the frequencies of word, stem, syllable and character n-grams in all documents have been computed in feature extraction stage, the documents have been represented as column vectors which contain frequencies. The tokens as word, stem, syllable and character n-grams are determined with threshold values as 0.25, 0.50, 0.75 and 0.90 in feature selection. In training stage, every document as a feature vector is given to MLP and SVM methods and using these methods a model is constructed for each class. Finally, the documents in test set are categorized to the classes using the models. The designed systems are evaluated according to the Precision, Recall, Accuracy and F-measure. The most successful method is SVM with word 1-gram and Accuracy and F-measure score of the systems are 99.9 % and 99.7 % respectively

The Predictive Roles of Positivity, Forgiveness and Religious Attitudes on Subjective Happiness

WOS:000594239700005TARAMAWOSThe aim of this study was to determine the relationships among positivity, forgiveness, religious attitudes and subjective happiness on university students. The current study has been conducted in correlational design. The participants of the study consisted of 798 university students who were studying at different universities in Turkey. Participants completed the questionnaire packet including four different scales: subjective happiness scale (SHS), positivity scale (PS), forgiveness scale (FS) and Ok-religious attitude scale (ORAS). Pearson correlation analysis and hierarchical regression analysis were used to analyse the obtained data. The results indicated that positivity and forgiveness predicted subjective happiness significantly, and collectively accounted 22% of the variance of subjective happiness. However, according to the results, religious attitude did not significantly predict subjective happiness. The results obtained from the research were discussed in a light of related literature and several suggestions were made

Psychological Resilience and Positivity as Predictors of Self-Efficacy

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between self-efficacy, a concept that has an important role in human life, and different demographic variables and the predictive roles of psychological resilience and positivity on self- efficacy. The research was carried out with 844 students studying at four different universities in provinces of Istanbul, Samsun, Bursa and Ankara in Turkey. Participants completed the questionnaire packet including the General Self- Efficacy Scale, the Brief Psychological Resilience Scale, the Positivity Scale and a personal information form. The analyses of the data were carried out via SPSS 20. The results showed that the female subjects tended to report lower self-efficacy than the males and participants living in cities and high income participants reported higher self-efficacy than the participants living in villages or small towns and the low income participants. Additionally, it may be stated that the participants who perceived their parents as democratic, negligent and protective reported higher levels of self-efficacy than those who perceived their parents as authoritarian. The results also indicated a moderate positive relationship between psychological resilience and self-efficacy, and a low positive correlation between self-efficacy and positivity. Psychological resilience and positivity were found to be important predictors of self-efficacy

Sonographically Guided Corticosteroid Injection for Treatment of Plantar Fasciosis

Objectives-The purpose of this study was to prospectively investigate the effect of sonographically guided corticosteroid injection on the clinical and radiologic responses in patients with proximal plantar fasciosis. Methods-Thirty-one consecutive patients with unilateral plantar fasciosis were enrolled. A 4-cm 21-gauge needle was positioned in a caudocranial oblique manner, and the needle was withdrawn to the near edge of the fascia so that the solution dispersed around the edge. Two milliliters (20 mg/mL) of lignocaine/prilocaine, 1%, and 0.5 mL (20 mg) of methylprednisolone acetate solutions were injected separately. The plantar fascia and fat pad thickness, fascial echogenicity, and perifascial edema were assessed with a 10-5 MHz linear array transducer. The American Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Society midfoot scale was used to assess function, alignment, and pain. The initial radiologic and clinical measurements were compared with data obtained not less than 6 weeks after the injections. Results-A statistically significant decrease in the mean plantar fascia thickness was detected after treatment (P .1). Plantar fascia rupture was detected in 1 patient. Conclusions-Sonographically guided corticosteroid injection enables real-time imaging of the plantar fascia during needle insertion. A caudocranial oblique injection beneath the fascia may have an incremental value in the treatment response in patients with plantar fasciosis

The Resilient Levels Of Preservice Teachers

TARAMATRDİZİNBu araştırmada öğretmen adaylarının psikolojik sağlamlık düzeylerinin cinsiyete, aile gelir duru-muna, algılanan anne-baba tutumuna ve yaşamın büyük kısmının geçirildiği yere göre anlamlı ola-rak farklılaşıp farklılaşmadığı incelenmiştir. Araştırmada genel tarama modeli kullanılmıştır. Araş-tırmanın çalışma grubunu, 2017-2018 eğitim öğretim yılında Ankara Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Fakültesinde ve Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesinde öğrenim gören, 423 gönüllü öğ-retmen adayı oluşturmuştur. Araştırmada veriler Kısa Psikolojik Sağlamlık Ölçeği ve Kişisel Bilgi Formu ile toplanmıştır. Araştırmanın sonuçları, öğretmen adaylarının psikolojik sağlamlık düzeyle-rinin cinsiyete ve aile gelir durumuna göre anlamlı düzeyde farklılık gösterdiğini; algılanan anne-baba tutumu ve yaşamın büyük kısmının geçirildiği yere göre ise anlamlı bir farklılık oluşturmadı-ğını ortaya koymuştur. Elde edilen sonuçlar ilgili literatür ışığında tartışılmıştır.In this study, whether or not significant differences the ways the resilient levels of preservice teachers were analyzed according to gender, family income status, perceived parental attitude and the place where they spent most of their lives. The general survey method was applied in the research. Working group of the study consist of 423 volunteer preservice teachers from study at Ankara University Faculty of Educational Sciences and Ondokuz Mayıs University Faculty of Education during the 2017-2018 academic year. The data in the study were collected by using the Brief Resilience Scale and Personal Information Form. The results of the study revealed that the resilient levels of preservice teachers differed significantly in terms of gender and family income status, while they were not found to differ significantly in terms of perceived parental attitude and the place where they spent most of their lives. The findings are discussed in the light of literature

Ultrasonographic measurement of the contribution of carpal ligament traction device used in the treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome treatment

Amaç: Çalışmanın amacı karpal tünel sendromu (KTS) tedavisinde kullanılan el bileği traksiyonunun sonografik olarak etkinliğini araştırmak, ultrasonografi (US)’nin KTS tanılı olgularda uygulanan tedavilerin öncesinde ve sonrasında takip amacıyla kullanılıp kullanılamayacağını belirlemektir. Gereç ve Yöntem: Çalışmaya daha önce yapılan elektrofizyolojik çalışmalarla idiopatik KTS tanısı almış 28 olgu (45 el) dahil edildi. Tüm olgulara tedavi amacıyla el bileği traksiyonu uygulanması için traksiyon cihazı (CTRACTM marka) kullanıldı. Tüm olgulara tedavi öncesi ve sonrasında iki kez US yapıldı. US incelemeleri 12-MHz lineer proba sahip (Toshiba, Aplio 500, Tokyo, Japan) cihaz kullanı- larak yapıldı. Tüm olgularda karpal tünel giriş ve çıkış düzeyinde kemikler arasında ölçülen mesafe ile medyan sinir kesitsel alanının ölçümleri arasında fark olup olmadığı ba- ğımlı grupların t testi ile değerlendirildi. Bulgular: Çalışmaya dahil edilen 45 el bileğinde, el bileği traksiyon cihaz kullanım öncesi ve sonrası iki US ölçümünde, karpal tünel giriş ve çıkış düzeyinde ölçülen kemik mesafeler arasında istatistiksel olarak anlamlı fark bulunurken (p < 0,001); medyan sinir kesitsel alan ölçümleri arasında istatistiksel olarak anlamlı fark bulunmadı (p > 0,05). Sonuç: Çalışmamız literatürde US ile KTS’de karpal ligaman traksiyonunun etkinliğini değerlendiren ilk çalışmadır. US ile KTS düşünülen olgularda ölçümler kısa sürede, radyasyona maruz kalmadan dinamik olarak gerçekleştirmek mümkündür.Objective: The aim of this study is to figure out the wrist traction effectiveness of ultrasound which is used to treat the carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), determine whether the ultrasound (US) applied in patients with a diagnosis of CTS can be used for follow up before and after the treatments. Material and Methods: 28 patients (45 hands) which has been diagnosed idiopathic CTS with the electrophysiological studies were included in the study. For treatment wrist traction device for the application of traction (C-TRACTM brand) was used on all patients. All the patients have been carried out with the US two times before and after the treatment.US examinations were performed with a 12-MHz linear probe (Toshiba, Aplio500, Tokyo, Japan) device. In all cases, the measured distance between the bones carpal tunnel at the level of the input and output measurements and the fact whether there is a difference between the median nerve cross-sectional area measurements, were assessed by the groups’t-test. Results: On the 45 wrists included in the study, two US measurements before and after the usage of wrist traction device, the carpal tunnel at the level of the input and output of measured between distances of bone were found statistically significant difference (p<0,001), while there wasn’t found statistically significant difference between the median nerve cross-sectional area measurements (p>0,05). Conclusion: Our study is the first study evaluating the effectiveness of US and CTS carpal ligament traction in the literature. Considered in patients with CTS and US measurements can be carried out in a short time and can be performed in a dynamic way without the exposure to radiation

Ultrasonographic measurement of the contribution of carpal ligament traction device used in the treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome treatment

Amaç: Çalışmanın amacı karpal tünel sendromu (KTS) tedavisinde kullanılan el bileği traksiyonunun sonografik olarak etkinliğini araştırmak, ultrasonografi (US)’nin KTS tanılı olgularda uygulanan tedavilerin öncesinde ve sonrasında takip amacıyla kullanılıp kullanılamayacağını belirlemektir. Gereç ve Yöntem: Çalışmaya daha önce yapılan elektrofizyolojik çalışmalarla idiopatik KTS tanısı almış 28 olgu (45 el) dahil edildi. Tüm olgulara tedavi amacıyla el bileği traksiyonu uygulanması için traksiyon cihazı (CTRACTM marka) kullanıldı. Tüm olgulara tedavi öncesi ve sonrasında iki kez US yapıldı. US incelemeleri 12-MHz lineer proba sahip (Toshiba, Aplio 500, Tokyo, Japan) cihaz kullanı- larak yapıldı. Tüm olgularda karpal tünel giriş ve çıkış düzeyinde kemikler arasında ölçülen mesafe ile medyan sinir kesitsel alanının ölçümleri arasında fark olup olmadığı ba- ğımlı grupların t testi ile değerlendirildi. Bulgular: Çalışmaya dahil edilen 45 el bileğinde, el bileği traksiyon cihaz kullanım öncesi ve sonrası iki US ölçümünde, karpal tünel giriş ve çıkış düzeyinde ölçülen kemik mesafeler arasında istatistiksel olarak anlamlı fark bulunurken (p < 0,001); medyan sinir kesitsel alan ölçümleri arasında istatistiksel olarak anlamlı fark bulunmadı (p > 0,05). Sonuç: Çalışmamız literatürde US ile KTS’de karpal ligaman traksiyonunun etkinliğini değerlendiren ilk çalışmadır. US ile KTS düşünülen olgularda ölçümler kısa sürede, radyasyona maruz kalmadan dinamik olarak gerçekleştirmek mümkündür.Objective: The aim of this study is to figure out the wrist traction effectiveness of ultrasound which is used to treat the carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), determine whether the ultrasound (US) applied in patients with a diagnosis of CTS can be used for follow up before and after the treatments. Material and Methods: 28 patients (45 hands) which has been diagnosed idiopathic CTS with the electrophysiological studies were included in the study. For treatment wrist traction device for the application of traction (C-TRACTM brand) was used on all patients. All the patients have been carried out with the US two times before and after the treatment.US examinations were performed with a 12-MHz linear probe (Toshiba, Aplio500, Tokyo, Japan) device. In all cases, the measured distance between the bones carpal tunnel at the level of the input and output measurements and the fact whether there is a difference between the median nerve cross-sectional area measurements, were assessed by the groups’t-test. Results: On the 45 wrists included in the study, two US measurements before and after the usage of wrist traction device, the carpal tunnel at the level of the input and output of measured between distances of bone were found statistically significant difference (p<0,001), while there wasn’t found statistically significant difference between the median nerve cross-sectional area measurements (p>0,05). Conclusion: Our study is the first study evaluating the effectiveness of US and CTS carpal ligament traction in the literature. Considered in patients with CTS and US measurements can be carried out in a short time and can be performed in a dynamic way without the exposure to radiation