Nutrition Awareness of Middle School Students in the Early Adolescence Period

Healthy nutrition is essential in preventing possible diseases and treating existing diseases by controlling their course. Based on this importance, adolescence is one of the periods to be considered. Adolescence is a fundamental determinant of healthy life in adulthood and old age. Healthy nutrition awareness gained in this period will raise awareness of the adolescent individual herself/himself and the people around her/him. This research aimed to determine the nutrition awareness of middle school students in early adolescence. According to the phenomenology, the research was conducted with eight volunteer students in the 8th grade in a public middle school in the Central Anatolia region in Turkey. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with each student individually using the "Interview Form about Nutrition Awareness in Adolescence Period" prepared by the researchers. The data were analyzed by using content analysis. As a result of the research, it was determined that the nutrition awareness of middle school students in the early adolescence period was low. In this context, increasing middle school students' nutrition awareness was recommended

An investigation of user satisfaction in housing estates in terms of age groups: Case of Konya-Bosna Hersek district

Konya'da imar planları değişikliği ve ekonomik gelişmeler ile birlikte son 20 yılda büyük miktarda konut yapılaşması bulunmaktadır. Bu gelişim en fazla İstanbul Yolu aksında gözlemlenmektedir. Bu bölgede kooperatifler, bireysel yükleniciler ve TOKİ aracılığıyla geniş konut alanları oluşmuştur. Yeni konut alanlarının açılmasıyla çarpık kentleşme kontrol altına alınarak, artan konut ihtiyacına cevap vermektedir. Ancak nicelik yönünden konut sorunu çözülmüş görünse de, nitelik yönünden kullanıcıların ihtiyaçlarını tam anlamıyla karşılamamaktadır. Bu yapılaşmanın sonucunda bu bölgedeki konutların sadece barınma fonksiyonlu olduğu, konut dışı işlevsel ve estetik kentsel donatıların eksik olduğu, barınma dışı gereksinmeler için kullanıcılar, kent merkezine gitmekte veya yeni oluşmaya başlayan yürüme mesafesi dışındaki bu donatılara zorlukla ulaşıldığı gözlemlenmiştir. Gözlenen ikinci problem; konut binalarının tip proje olarak uygulanmasından dolayı yön ve adres bulmada güçlüklerle karşılaşılması, cadde ve sokakların benzer şekilde tekrar etmesidir. Bu problemlerin analiz edilmesi amacıyla İstanbul Yolu aksındaki yoğun yapılaşmaların içerisindeki tipik örneklerden Bosna Hersek Mahallesi seçilmiş, bu bağlamda iki aşamada analiz yapılmıştır. v Birincisi konut dışı kentsel donanımlar yerleşim planı üzerinde mevcut durumu tespit edilmiştir. İkincisi tip proje uygulamalarının getirdiği ?kentsel görsel algı? analizleri yapılmış, yöntem olarak Kevin Lynch?in önerdiği kentsel elemanların varlığı ve başarısı ölçülmüştür. Bu analizleri takiben, seçilen konut kullanıcılarına, yaş gruplarına göre anket çalışması yapılmıştır. Anketteki sorular yukarıda belirtilen iki problem alanına bağlı olarak gruplanmıştır. Tez çalışmasının sonucunda, farklı yaş gruplarındaki kullanıcılar için konut dışı fiziksel gereksinmelerin önceliklerinin değiştiği gözlemlenmiştir. Yol bulma, adres tanımlama bağlamında, bina tip tekrarındaki olumsuzlukların giderilmesi amacıyla estetik ve kentsel donanımların tüm kullanıcılar tarafından talep edildiği gözlemlenmiştir.There have been many housing constructions in Konya in the last twenty years with the changes in development plans and economic improvements. This development is mainly observed in the centerline of Istanbul. This region is populated with large residential spaces constructed by many cooperatives, individual contractors and TOKI. Unplanned urbanization is controlled by opening new residential areas and the need for increasing housing demand is maintained this way. However, the requirements of users are not satisfactorily provided in terms of quality although this problem is solved under quantitative terms. As a result of this configuration, it is observed that the houses in this region only serve for accommodation and lack of functional and aesthetical facilities; where people go to city centers to provide their needs other than housing or have difficulty in reaching these facilities which have just started to be built. The second problem observed is that there are many difficulties resulting from inability to find directions and addresses due to typical projects of housing estates and repetition of streets and avenues in a similar way. Bosna Hersek district is selected among these largely populated areas in Istanbul centerline in vii order to analyze these problems and a two-stage analysis is made in this frame. The first stage involves the determination of present non-domestic facilities on the settlement plan. The second stage involves the analyses of ?urban visual perception? brought by these typical project applications and as a method, the presence of urban elements and their success is measured as suggested by Kevin Lynch. Following these analyses, a survey study is conducted to the users of selected houses in terms of their ages. The items in the survey are grouped depending on the two problems stated above. As a result of this thesis, it is seen that the nondomestic physical requirements of users differ in different age groups. It is also observed that aesthetical and urban facilities are demanded by all users in order to fulfill the disadvantages of typical buildings in the framework of following directions and finding addresses

The effect of three different solutions on preventing oral mucositis in cancer patients undergoing stem cell transplantation: A non-randomized controlled trial: A Turkish study

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of different solutions administered to patients undergoing stem cell transplantation on oral mucositis. METHODS: The non-randomised controlled trial was conducted at a Istanbul Medipol Mega university hospital in Turkey between May 2014 and June 2016, and comprised patients undergoing stem cell transplantation. They were divided into three groups. Group 1 had patients using chlorhexidine gluconate and benzydamine hydrochloride solution. Group 2 had those using calcium and phosphate solution. Group 3 patients were using black mulberry syrup. Data was collected using a structured questionnaire and the World Health Organisation mucositis assessment scale. Assessment was done on days 7, 14 and 21. Clinical significance of oral solutions was statistically determined. RESULTS: Of the 83 patients, 30(36%) were in group 1, 28(34%) in group 2, and 25(30%) in group 3. On day 7, there was no significant difference in terms of grades among the groups (p>0.05). On day 14, grade 2 mucositis was seen in 2(8%) patents in group 3, 5(17.9%) in group 2 and 5(16.7%) in group 1; Grade 3 mucositis was seen in 2(6.7%) patients in group 1, but none in the other two groups. On day 21, grade 3 mucositis was present in 2(8.0%) in group 3, 2(7.1%) in group 2, and 4(13.3%) in group 1. CONCLUSIONS: The use of black mulberry and calcium-phosphate solutions was found to be beneficial in preventing and treating oral mucositis

Effect of three different solutions used in patients with hematological malignity on oral mucositis

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Contribution of complete response to treatment to survival in patients with unresectable metastatic colorectal cancer: A retrospective analysis

Background The aim of the study is to reveal the contribution of complete response (CR) to treatment to overall survival (OS) in patients with unresectable metastatic colorectal cancer. In addition, to evaluate progression-free survival (PFS) in patients who attained CR to treatment and to examine the clinicopathologic features of the patient group with CR. Methods This article is a retrospective chart review. Patients diagnosed with metastatic colorectal cancer were divided into two groups. The systemic treatment was compared with the patients who received a full response according to the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST1.1) and those who did not attain CR (progression partial response and stable response) in terms of both PFS and OS data, and the effect of attaining CR to treatment on prognosis was evaluated. Results A total of 222 patients were included in the study. 202 of 222 patients could be evaluated in terms of complete response. All data from their files were tabulated and analyzed retrospectively. The mean age of diagnosis of the study group was 60.13 12.52 years. The total number of patients who attained CR to treatment was 31 (15.3%); 171 (84.6%) patients did not attain CR. Patients who had a CR had longer median PFS times than patients who did not have a CR (15.2 vs. 7.4 months, P<0.001). Patients who had CR had longer median survival times than patients who did not have a CR (39.2 vs. 16.9 months, P<0.001). In subgroup patients who underwent primary surgery, the number of patients who attained CR was statistically higher compared with the number of patients who did not attain CR (p<0.001). Complete response was less common in the presence of liver metastasis and bone metastasis (p = 0.041 and p = 0.046, respectively), had a negative prognostic effect. In other words, 89.1% of patients with liver metastasis, 100.0% of patients with bone metastasis, and 88.7% of those who died did not have a CR to the treatment. According to multivariate analysis, CR to treatment, primary surgery, first-line chemotherapy (combination compared with fluoropyrimidine), and no bone metastasis were found to be predictors for OS. Conclusion Providing CR with systemic treatment in patients with unresectable metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) contributes to prognosis. The primary resection in our secondary acquisitions from the study, the number of metastatic regions and the combination therapy regimens also contributed to the prognosis

Evaluation of abdominal computed tomography findings in patients with COVID-19: a multicenter study

PURPOSE To evaluate the frequency of abdominal computed tomography (CT) findings in patients with coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) and interrogate the relationship between abdominal CT findings and patient demographic features, clinical findings, and laboratory test results as well as the CT atherosclerosis score in the abdominal aorta. METHODS This study was designed as a multicenter retrospective study. The abdominal CT findings of 1.181 patients with positive abdominal symptoms from 26 tertiary medical centers with a positive polymerase chain-reaction test for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 were reviewed. The frequency of ischemic and non-ischemic CT findings as well as the association between CT findings, clinical features, and abdominal aortic calcific atherosclerosis score (AA-CAS) were recorded. RESULTS Ischemic and non-ischemic abdominal CT findings were detected in 240 (20.3%) and 328 (27.7%) patients, respectively. In 147 patients (12.4%), intra-abdominal malignancy was present. The most frequent ischemic abdominal CT findings were bowel wall thickening (n = 120; 10.2%) and perivascular infiltration (n = 40; 3.4%). As for non-ischemic findings, colitis (n = 91; 7.7%) and small bowel inflammation (n = 73; 6.2%) constituted the most frequent disease processes. The duration of hospital stay was found to be higher in patients with abdominal CT findings than in patients without any positive findings (13.8 ± 13 vs. 10.4 ± 12.8 days, P < 0.001). The frequency of abdominal CT findings was significantly higher in patients who did not survive the infection than in patients who were discharged after recovery (41.7% vs. 27.4%, P < 0.001). Increased AA-CAS was found to be associated with a higher risk of ischemic conditions in abdominal CT examinations. CONCLUSION Abdominal symptoms in patients with COVID-19 are usually associated with positive CT findings. The presence of ischemic findings on CT correlates with poor COVID-19 outcomes. A high AA-CAS is associated with abdominal ischemic findings in patients with COVID-19