Adaptation of Champion's Health Belief Model Scale for Turkish women and evaluation of the selected variables associated with breast self-examination

WOS: 000247112700010PubMed ID: 17235224The purpose of this study was to adapt Champion's Revised Health Belief Model Scale for Turkish women and to examine selected sociodemographic variables associated with breast self-examination (BSE). Data were collected from a total of 430 females who were living in one of the Health Center areas located in Izmir, a city in the west of Turkey. Champion's revised Health Belief Model Scale was translated into Turkish, validated by professional judges, translated back into English, and then tested. Factor analysis yielded 7 factors: susceptibility, seriousness, barrier 1, barrier 2, confidence, benefits, and health motivation. Significant correlations were found between 2 barriers. Therefore, 2 barriers were considered one barrier subscale. All the items on each factor were from the same construct. Cronbach alpha coefficients ranged from .58 to .89, and test-retest reliability coefficients ranged from .89 to .99 for the subscales. Women who received low scores on barriers reported greater frequency of BSE practice. Likewise, women having high scores on confidence, benefits, health motivation, susceptibility, and seriousness reported a greater frequency of BSE in the last year. The frequency of BSE practice was higher in high school and university graduates, women with a family history of breast cancer, and women with breast cancer and BSE training. The Turkish version of Champion's Revised Health Belief Model Scale was found to be a valid and reliable tool for use with Turkish women. it could be used to evaluate health beliefs about breast cancer and BSE among Turkish women

Minimizing short-term complications in patients who have undergone cardiac invasive procedure: a randomized controlled trial involving position change and sandbag

Symposium on Saglik Bilimlerinde Sureli Yayincilik -- 2007 -- Ankara, TURKEYWOS: 000254244200007PubMed ID: 18065335Objective: The study aimed to evaluate the effects of putting a sandbag on femoral access site after cardiac invasive procedure and changing patients' position in bed on vascular complications rate and the severity of back pain related to the duration of bed rest after procedure. Methods: This randomized controlled study included 169 patients divided into five different groups assigned randomly. Group 1 patients were applied 4.5 kg sandbag for 30 minutes and Group 2 patients were applied 2.3 kg sandbag for 2 hours on femoral access site after procedure. Group I and 2 patients' body positions were changed every hour beginning from the second hour. Group 3 patients received application of 4.5 kg sandbag for 30 minutes and Group 4 patients were applied 2.3 kg sandbag for 2 hours on femoral access site after procedure and these patients' body positions were not changed after catheterization. Group 5 patients remained in supine position without changing position and had no application of a sandbag. Results: The incidence of vascular complications was not significantly different in the group with application of sandbag when compared with the group without application of sandbag. Back pain was reported more often in the patients whose positions were not changed and whose heads of beds were not raised (p < 0.05). Conclusion: Sandbag was not effective in decreasing the incidence of the vascular complications after procedure. To increase the comfort and to decrease the back pain of the patient, the patient's position should be changed and the head of the bed should be raised about 30 or 45 degrees