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HLRP: Health Literacy Research and Practice

Turkish Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Amac: Bu arastirmanin amaci, Evde Saglikli Beslenme Onundeki Engeller Olcegi (ESBOEO) Turkce gece... more Amac: Bu arastirmanin amaci, Evde Saglikli Beslenme Onundeki Engeller Olcegi (ESBOEO) Turkce gecerlik ve guvenirligini belirlemektir. Yontem: Arastirma metodolojik tipte epidemiyolojik bir arastirmadir ve Ankara ilinde yapilmistir. Arastirmada alti okulda ogrenim goren tum altinci sinif ogrencilerin ailelerine ulasilmasi hedeflenmistir (n=641). Arastirmanin ilk asamasina 435 ebeveyn, uc hafta sonra gerceklestirilen ikinci (test tekrar test) asamasina 340 ebeveyn katilmistir. Arastirmada, kisisel bilgi formu ve ESBOEO’ni iceren veri toplama araci kullanilmistir. ESBOEO, yurtdisinda gelistirilen, 18 madde ve iki boyuttan oluan ve saglikli beslenme onundeki engelleri olcen bir olcme aracidir. Arastirmada IBM SPSS ver. 23.0 ve IBM AMOS ver 23.0 programlari kullanilmistir. Bulgular: Calismaya katilanlarin %77.8’i kadin ve %25.5’i dusuk gelir grubundadir. ESBOEO ile ilgili yapilan dogrulayici faktor analizinde bazi uyum iyiligi degerleri hesaplanmistir. ESBOEO guvenirlik analizlerinde, Cr...

Amac: Isyerlerinde sagligin gelistirilmesi onemli calisma alanlarindan birini olusturmaktadir. Bu... more Amac: Isyerlerinde sagligin gelistirilmesi onemli calisma alanlarindan birini olusturmaktadir. Bu proje kapsaminda bir devlet kurulusu ile bir universite arasinda yapilan protokol cercevesinde buro calisanlarina yonelik sagligin gelistirilmesi mudahale modeli gelistirilmesi amaclanmistir. Yontem: Proje calismalarinin basinda durum saptama calismasi yapilmistir . Mudahaleler sirasinda konferans, poster ve brosurler, bilgisayar uzerinden kisa mesajlar ve etkinlikler duzenlenmistir. Mudahale sonrasinda tekrar bir arastirma ile katilanlarin davranis degisiklikleri ve proje hakkindaki gorusleri ogrenilmistir. Bulgular : Projenin birinci ve ikinci asama calismalarina katilan 441 kisinin mudahaleler hakkindaki gorusleri ve beyan ettikleri davranis degisiklikleri degerlendirilmistir. Katilimcilarin %78.1’i proje cerceevsinde yapilan mudahaleleri cok etkili ve etkili olarak degerlendirmislerdir. Calismaya katilanlarin %70,7’si son bir yil icinde daha saglikli olmaya ozen gosterdiklerini beli...

Exponential Growth Model is a method that can provide an adequate approach to this growth for the... more Exponential Growth Model is a method that can provide an adequate approach to this growth for the beginning periods of outbreaks by expressing an unstoppable infection growth, while Logistics Growth Model is a method that appears in the modeling of the growth that decreases as the growth increases in the initial period and then approaches the maximum. In the growth of infectious outbreaks, this maximum limit will be the total number of people in the world, because growth will certainly decrease when everyone is ill. For this reason, it is also frequently used in the modeling of COVID-19 data, which has recently affected the whole world with great speed. The purpose of this study is to create a statistical model that describes the growth in total number of COVID-19 confirmed cases which occurred the dates between March 11 and May 19, 2020 in Turkey. In this context, Logistic Growth and Exponential Growth models were created to analyze the total number of COVID-19 confirmed cases betw...

Background: Different languages and insufficient levels of intercultural sensitivity among health... more Background: Different languages and insufficient levels of intercultural sensitivity among healthcare providers hinder migrants from benefiting from health services, resulting in a lack of trust in service providers and non-adherence to the treatment. This study aims to verify the validity and reliability of the “Intercultural Sensitivity Scale” developed by Chen and Starosta among Turkish medical students. Methods: Data were collected between December 18, 2017, and February 28, 2018, from 667 students. In order to demonstrate the construct validity of the scale, the data were randomly divided into two parts using the functions in the SPSS package program. For the first half of the data (n1=337), exploratory factor analysis (EFA) based on polychoric correlation was applied together with the oblique rotation method. For the second half of the data (n2=330), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) based on polychoric correlations was applied to confirm the factor structure of the scale. In...

Journal of Dr. Behcet Uz Children's Hospital, 2017

Objective: The aim of this study is to determine the body weight and weight perception of adolesc... more Objective: The aim of this study is to determine the body weight and weight perception of adolescents, examine the relationship with Pediatric-Quality-of-Life (PedsQL) and Self-EfficacyQuestionnaire-for-Children (SEQ-C). Methods: The study was conducted with 779 (girls, 55.3% girl, boys, 44.7%) adolescents, with an average age of 16.3±1.1 years. The actual estimated body weight indices (BMIs) declared by the adolescents was defined as “extremely underweight”, “underweight”, “normal”, “overweight” and “obese” according to genderand agespecific body mass index (BMI) values. The students were asked about their self-perception of body weights, and told to identify with one of the above-mentioned weight definitions. All participants completed the PedsQL and SEQ-C scale. Results: There was no significant difference in total quality of life scores associated with BMIs of the participants. Some (47.3%) girls and 36.5% of the boys perceived themselves at different weights than they were, in ...

Journal of Applied Statistics, 2020

The analysis of traffic accident data is crucial to address numerous concerns, such as understand... more The analysis of traffic accident data is crucial to address numerous concerns, such as understanding contributing factors in an accident's chain-of-events, identifying hotspots, and informing polic...

When data exhibits heavy-tailed behavior, traditional regression approaches might be inadequate o... more When data exhibits heavy-tailed behavior, traditional regression approaches might be inadequate or inappropriate to model the data. In such data analyses, composite models, which are built by piecing together two or more weighted distributions at specified threshold(s), are alternative models. When data contain covariate information, composite regression models can be used. In the existing literature, there is not much work done on this topic. The only study is Gan and Valdez (2018)'s paper. In this study, a novel Lognormal-Pareto Type II composite regression model is proposed. Particle swarm optimization ( PSO ) is performed to obtain model parameters of the proposed model. The proposed model is applied to model monthly consumption expenditure and affecting factors. The data is obtained from the National Household Budget Survey, which is conducted annually by the Turkish Statistical Institute ( TurkStat ). Since the sampling design of the Household Budget Survey is stratified t...

Background Turkey hosts the world’s largest refugee population of whom 3.5 million are Syrians an... more Background Turkey hosts the world’s largest refugee population of whom 3.5 million are Syrians and this population has been continuously growing since the year 2011. This situation causes various problems, mainly while receiving health-care services. In planning the migrant health-care services, for the policy makers of host countries, health literacy level of migrants is an important measure. Determination of health literacy level of Syrian refugees in Turkey would be supportive for planning some interventions to increase health-care service utilization, as well as health education and health communication programs. An “original health literacy scale” for 18–60 years of age Turkish literate adults (Hacettepe University Health Literacy Scale-HLS) was developed to be used as a reference scale in 2018. Since it would be useful to compare the health literacy levels of Turkish adults with Syrian adult refugees living in Turkey with an originally developed scale, in this study, it was ai...

Turkish Journal of Sports Medicine

Objective: The purposes of this study were to investigate the comparison of some stretch-shorteni... more Objective: The purposes of this study were to investigate the comparison of some stretch-shortening cycle (SSC) parameters, and to correlate reactive strength index (RSI) scores from drop jumps (DJ) and sprint times (ST) among maturation groups according to peak height velocity (PHV). Methods: A total of 108 youth soccer players were included in this study (age: 13.0±1.5 years old; height: 162.7±12.1 cm; weight: 53.1±11.7 kg). Participants were divided into three groups (Pre-PHV, Mid-PHV and Post-PHV) according to calculation using the maturity offset equation. DJ tests from 20 and 40 cm drop heights (DH) and 30 m sprint tests were made by participants. RSI scores were taken during DJs. All tests were performed twice. One-way ANOVA and Welch ANOVA tests were performed to test differences between more than two independent groups for normally-distributed data. If a significant difference was found, Bonferroni and Games-Howell tests were performed for multiple comparisons, respectively. Pearson correlation coefficients were calculated for bivariate correlations between numeric variables, where appropriate. A value of p<0.05 was accepted as significant. Results: RSI scores of 20 cm DJ were significantly different among groups (p<0.001). RSI of 40 cm DJ of the Pre-PHV group was significantly different than the other groups (p<0.001). All maturation groups were significantly different in terms of sprint times (p<0.001). The RSI of 20 cm DH was correlated with 20 m ST in the Mid-PHV group. But RSI of 40 cm DH was correlated predominantly with 20 m ST in youth soccer (p<0.05). Conclusion: The main finding of this study was that 40 cm drop height and 20 m sprint distance are more optimal to be used to monitor SSC performances of youth soccer players during maturation.

TURKISH JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES

Background/aim: To determine risk factors of overweightness/obesity in children aged 0-5 years in... more Background/aim: To determine risk factors of overweightness/obesity in children aged 0-5 years in the Turkish population. Materials and methods: We made advanced analysis using the Turkey Demographic Health Survey (TDHS) 2013 female database, in which data from children aged under five years and their mothers are included. Analyses were performed using weight for height index data. The children were divided into two groups by age as 0-23 months and 24-59 months. Results: The analysis comprised 2196 children aged under 5 years. Several factors were associated with an increase in overweightness/ obesity of children aged under 5 years. Overweight/obesity in children aged 0-23 months was associated with several factors such as age (12-23 months) (

BACKGROUND Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is the most common hereditary autoinflammatory dise... more BACKGROUND Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is the most common hereditary autoinflammatory disease. We aimed to investigate the oral health status and oral hygiene habits in children with FMF. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, 199 children with FMF, aged between 3-18 years, were included. Demographic findings and oral hygiene habits of children were questioned by face-to-face interview. Oral health status of patients was evaluated using decay-missing-filled index [DMFT (decay-missing-filled teeth), DMFS (decay-missing-filled teeth) for permanent; dmft, dmfs for primary teeth], the International Caries Detection and Assessment System (ICDAS-II) index, PUFA / pufa index [the presence of severely decayed teeth with visible pulpal involvement (P/p), ulceration caused by dislocated tooth fragments (U/u), fistula (F/f) and abscess (A/a)], gingival (GI) and plaque index (PI). In addition to these, occlusion, oral soft and hard tissues were examined. RESULTS One-hundred-nine (54.8%) ...

The Journal of Pediatric Research

PloS one, 2018

Childhood obesity rates have been rising rapidly in developing countries. A better understanding ... more Childhood obesity rates have been rising rapidly in developing countries. A better understanding of the risk factors and social context is necessary to inform public health interventions and policies. This paper describes the validation of several measurement scales for use in Turkey, which relate to child and parent perceptions of physical activity (PA) and enablers and barriers of physical activity in the home environment. The aim of this study was to assess the validity and reliability of several measurement scales in Turkey using a population sample across three socio-economic strata in the Turkish capital, Ankara. Surveys were conducted in Grade 4 children (mean age = 9.7 years for boys; 9.9 years for girls), and their parents, across 6 randomly selected schools, stratified by SES (n = 641 students, 483 parents). Construct validity of the scales was evaluated through exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Internal consistency of scales and test-retest reliability were as...