Objectives: To investigate the prevalence and risk factors of urinary incontinence (UI) in nursing home residents in the capital city of Turkey. Methodology: In this cross-sectional study, 394 elderly people (244 women and ...

Background: Cervical cancer is one of the most common causes of cancer mortality among women worldwide, but actually is largely preventable. The practice of Pap smear testing (PST) needs to be expanded in order to diagnose ...

Objective: Day surgery procedures have increasingly been used nowadays as a result of improvements in surgical techniques, anesthesia and analgesia techniques and they are preferred for their benefits to the patient and ...

This study was performed as semi-experimentally to determine the effectiveness of patient safety teaching plan developed for patient with lumbar disc herniation surgery on patients' activities of daily living and life ...

Study was carried out as an intervention study to determine the effect of nursing care provided at home with self-care model on self-efficacy of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Study sample included ...

This descriptive research was made with the purpose of investigating the obesity on children between the ages of 7-14 and from different socio-economic levels. The samples of the research was the students who are between ...

This research was made a methodological study in order to adapt Turkish language and culture of Stage of Change (SOC) scales (Processes of Change / POC, Self-Efficacy / SE and Decisional Balance / DB) which developed for ...

This paper covers a random intervened case control study performed to evaluate any possible effects of the home care service on the life quality of the gynecological cancer patients. The sampling covers total 70 women, ...

This descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out to identify caregiving burden and associated factors in primary caregivers of cancer patients undergoing peripheral stem cell transplantation. The study was conducted ...