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This study aimed to adapt the Wilson-Sims Fall Scale to Turkish and assess the levels of sensitivity and selectivity. The scale consisting of two sections and 15 items including age, gender, mental and physical status, elimination, impairments, gait/balance, falls' history, medications, and detox protocol was administered to 750 patients in psychia...
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This descriptive study was conducted to investigate the relationship between problematic smartphone use and the life goals. The study was conducted on 310 nursing students. The data were collected with the "Smartphone Addiction Scale'' and "Life Goals Scale." Increased internal life goals of the students was found to decrease the tendency to be eng...
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The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence and risk factors of workplace violence (WPV) against nurses working in public hospitals and to evaluate for associations between WPV with the quality of life (QOL). A cross-sectional study design was carried out from April to May 2021. The study population consisted of 890 nurses working in publi...
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This study was conducted to assess the stigmatizing attitudes of nursing students toward individuals who had made suicide attempts as well as these students' attitudes toward death. The universe of this descriptive and cross-sectional study consisted of 650 students studying in the fall semester of the 2017-18 academic year. No sample selection was...
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The aim of this study was to determine the effect of interviews based on a salutogenic approach on the sense of coherence and resilience in schizophrenic patients. A pretest-posttest randomized controlled experimental trial was conducted with 49 patients. The posttest and follow-up mean scores of the subscales and the overall scale of sense of cohe...
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To determine the prevalence of depression, review some variables that are believed to be associated and assess the relationships between depression and sexual quality of life in postmenopausal women. This is a cross-sectional study conducted on postmenopausal women in Ankara, Turkey from February to June 2020. The study group consisted of 242 postm...
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The aim of this study is to determine factors affecting hedonic hunger in adults. A cross-sectional research design was used to collect face-to-face data from 315 adults, aged 18-65 years, residing in Balıkesir/Turkey by way of a questionnaire. Hedonic hunger was found to be higher in women and also rates decreased with age. As body mass index incr...
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To investigate the levels of self-disclosure in men undergoing in vitro fertilization and analyze the effects of communication and personality on self-disclosure. This cross-sectional study included 210 men undergoing in vitro fertilization. Self-disclosure was measured using the Chinese Distress Disclosure Index Scale. Participants with high self-...
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It was aimed to determine the perceptions of nurses' working environment and professional quality of life and to compare nurses with and without musculoskeletal discomfort. It is a descriptive and comparative study. The data were collected from 333 nurses working at different units. Those, who did not have discomfort in their body parts, had a high...
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We analyzed the nomophobia concept to develop the "Fırat Nomophobia Scale" to determine the level of nomophobia in individuals aged 15-65 years. A linguistically and psychometrically validated trial form consisting of 13 statements was applied to a sample of 678 individuals (69% women). The "Nomophobia Scale" that we developed consisted of a single...
