Onur Ozturk

Samsun Education And Research Hospital · Family Medicine

Background: Boarding Quran courses are religious institutions where course attendees spend large part of the year. Depression is an ever-increasing health problem. So, it is worth to study on the effects of religion concept and religious belief and behaviours' that religion concept brings, on depression. The main purpose of this study, is to analy...

There is a common opinion that a higher level of HDL is better. It is reported that HDL particle involved significant defects in Turkish adults. We aimed to determine whether there was a relationship between high levels of HDL and certain metabolic and anthropometric variables. In the present study, patients ≥ 18 years of age who had HDL levels >60...

Introduction: The human population is ageing. A centenarian is an individual who has reached the age of at least 100 years. Longevity has been associated with long-lived families and their related genetic material but genes are not the entire story. The study aimed to briefly explore the life stories and perceptions of key variables contributing to...

Aims We aimed to evaluate knowledge, attitudes and usage of the painkillers within the framework of rational drug use. Methods This study was conducted in a family medicine unit with a questionnaire consists of 27 questions. Results Total of 506 patients participated in the study. The number of people who used pain medication every day was 29 (5....

Introduction: It is essential to comply with palliative care philosophy during consultations for hospitalisation purposes between specific medical branches and specialised palliative care services (SPCS). We aimed to evaluate the patients who were admitted or consulted to the palliative care service with a palliative care approach. Materials and Me...

Lumbar disc herniation is a very common disease. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, opioid analgesics, SSRIs, neuroleptics and integrative methods such as acupuncture, chiropractic, dry needling , cupping therapy, hirudotherapy have been widely used in recent years. A 42-year-old male patient with a two-year history of low back pain presented t...

Background: The blood type is known to be associated with the risk of cancer. This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between oncological diagnoses and blood groups of inpatients receiving palliative care. Material and methods: This retrospective study was conducted with patients receiving palliative care at our hospital between December 2019...

OBJECTIVE: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has continued to affect human health and lifestyles worldwide. In this study, we aimed to investigate the effect of COVID-19 pandemic on male sexual dysfunction and potential etiological factors. MATERIAL and METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, the sexuality in male participants aged 1...

In medicine, ozone therapy is used in many instances. This study aims to understand the knowledge and attitudes of healthcare professionals towards ozone therapy. We conducted a cross-sectional survey in a comprehensive hospital between November 2020 and January 2021. In addition to evaluating the sociodemographic characteristics of the healthcare...

Amaç: Çalışmamızın amacı sünnet olacak olan çocukların ebeveynlerinde sünnet hakkındaki bilgi düzeyini değerlendir-mek ve kontrol (başka bir sebeple polikliniğe başvuru yapan çocukların ebeveyni) grubuyla bilgi düzeylerini karşılaştır-mak ve çıkan sonuçların ebeveynlerin sosyodemografik özellikleriyle ilişkisini belirlemektir. Gereç-Yöntem: Samsun...

Amaç: Anne sütü bebekler için en iyi beslenme şeklidir. Bu çalışmada annelerin bebeklerini emzirme süresi ve bunu et-kileyen olası faktörlerin belirlenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Gereç-Yöntem: Kesitsel, deskriptif ve retrospektif türde dizayn edilen bu çalışma 1 Şubat 2022-30 Nisan 2022 tarihleri arasındaki 3 aylık süre içerisinde yapılmıştır. Samsun Eğiti...

Objective: Chronic systemic diseases (CSD) and cancer are closely related to the clinical course, severity and mortality of COVID-19 due to the immunosuppressive conditions caused by these diseases. The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences between the effects of cancer and CSD on the clinical and laboratory parameters of patient...

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) services are used more and more by people in Turkiye day by day. Although it is used so much, there are no schools that provide CAM training in midwifery departments at undergraduate level. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between the view of midwifery students on CAM practices and their...

Objective: The method for predicting the risk of intubation in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is yet to be standardized. This study aimed to introduce a new disease prognosis scoring model that may predict the intubation risk based on the symptoms, signs, and laboratory tests of patients hospitalized with the diagnosis of COVID-...

Objectives: In this study, the objective was to evaluate the intramuscular injections administered to patients admitted to a family health center with sociodemographic characteristics. Materials and Methods: This is a cross-sectional, analytical and, retrospective file review study. The sample population was formed by patients who had intramuscular...

ÖZ Amaç: Aile hekimliği birimlerinin kanser tarama oranlarını saptamak, aile hekimi/aile sağlığı çalışanlarının kanser tarama davranışlarını belirlemek ve taramaların arttırılmasına katkıda bulunmak amaçlanmıştır. Gereç ve Yöntem: Bu kesitsel çalışmada anket aracından ve otomasyon kayıtlarından yararlanılmıştır. Samsun iline bağlı tüm ilçelerden gö...

ÖZET Modern tıp tarihi birkaç yüzyılda baş döndürücü gelişmeler kaydetmiştir. Bu gelişmeleri tümüylebir yazı içinde anlatmak mümkün değildir. Aşılar, cerrahi, mikrop teorisi, antibiyotikler ve genler gibipek çok konu insanlığın bugününü ve yar ınını şekillendirmektedir. Bu yaz ıda bir aile hekimi olarakyakın bilim tarihine bir gezi yapmaya çalıştık...

Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is the most common hereditary retinal degeneration. Complaints of night blindness and peripheral visual field loss are felt in the foreground. Examination findings, radiological evaluations and satisfaction in our case suggest that acupuncture can also be used in the treatment of RP disease.

Introduction The present study aimed to understand the causative sociodemographic factors to prevent the ever-increasing childhood suicides. Materials and Methods The records of patients who presented to the pediatric emergency department of Samsun Training and Research Hospital for attempted suicide between 01 January 2019 and 30 June 30 2021 were...

Background: Emergency rooms (ERs) are usually crowded with friends and relatives (F&Rs) of the patients. This experience may result in changes in smoking behaviors and create opportunities for smoking cessation interventions. The study aims to investigate these changes and offers a new frontier in the fight against smoking. Methods: This cross-sect...

Holistic medicine is one of the core competencies of the family medicine discipline, and in this context, it deals with the physical, mental and social health of the patient. In this case report, the management of a patient who did not have a family doctor contact is mentioned with a holistic approach. An eighty-year-old male patient applied to our...

Constipation is a disorder that can result in infrequent defecation, pain, stiffness and difficult stool passage and pathogenesis is multifactorial. A 32-year-old female patient was admitted to family medicine clinic with the complaint of constipation that has been present since childhood. Dyssynergic defecation, which is one of the rare causes of...

Ozone application is used in medicine with many indications, vascular diseases are one of them. In this case report, the regression of ischemia-related complaints in the finger of a young female patient with Raynaud's Phenomenon after ozone application was mentioned.

Background: Smoking is a serious public health challenge across the world. Fasting in Ramadan requires people to stay away from smoking as well as activities such as eating, drinking, and sexual intercourse. We examined the effect of fasting on cigarette smoking and nicotine addiction during the Ramadan. Methodology: This study was designed as a...

Amaç: Son yıllarda Geleneksel ve Tamamlayıcı Tıp (GETAT) uygulamalarına ilgi tüm dünyada ve ülkemizde artış göstermektedir. Bu çalışmada Samsun ilindeki aile hekimlerinin GETAT ile ilgili bilgi düzeylerini ve tutumlarını araştırmak amaçlanmıştır. Materyal ve Metot: Tanımlayıcı, kesitsel türde tasarlanan bu çalışmaya Ocak 2021- Mart 2021 tarihleri a...

Kanıta dayalı tıp, klinik tıbbın ayrılmaz bir parçasıdır. İnsanlarda kullanılacak integratif tedavi protokollerinde yol gösterici olan ana unsur klinik çalışmalardır. Apiterapi çalışmalarında son yıllarda önemli bir artış söz konusudur fakat klinik çalışma sayısı nispeten daha azdır ve bu çalışmaların derlenmesi literatüre katkı sağlayacaktır. Bu m...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the attitudes of healthcare professionals toward the COVID −19 vaccine, which has been introduced to healthcare professionals at the beginning of 2021 and give information to them on the disease and vaccine. This cross-sectional analytical study has been performed by conducting an online survey to the health...

The 'stay-at-home' order is a kind of mass quarantine strategy and has been enforced globally in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, various problems have been reported as well. An electronic research was performed in PubMed and Web of Science databases to determine these problems. This study indicates in a holistic approach to determine so...

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Objective: The place of traditional and complementary medicine (T&CM) practices in modern health services has been under intensive debate over recent years. Currently, this subject matter is not included in the curricula across educational levels below the bachelor's degree. In this study, the level of awareness and opinions about T&CM were investi...

Aims It is aimed to investigate the disease processes and drug combinations in patients who received favipiravir treatment. Methods This cross‐sectional, analytical and retrospective study included all patients aged ≥18 years (n = 502) who were hospitalised in Samsun, Turkey for COVID‐19 and were given favipiravir from the date between 25 March, 2...

Intervention for smoking cessation in a palliative care setting is not considered to be a standard practise. However, palliative care should support life and improve its quality and be able to approach the patient from a psychosocial perspective. This article discusses the smoking cessation intervention provided in a palliative care setting for an...

Apitherapy is the use of honey bee products for health and it has been used for similar purposes for a very long time by the public. These products have examples of healing affecting whole body systems. The approach and education of apitherapy in medical schools are inadequate. In this study, the level of knowledge and opinions about apitherapy wer...

Öz Variköz venler, gebelerde fizyolojik olarak görülebilen, yaşam kalitesini düşüren, fiziksel aktiviteyi kısıtlayan, kozmetik ve psikolojik problemlere yol açan, tanı ve tedavi maliyetleri yüksek bir sağlık sorunudur. Bu olgu sunumunda gebelikte variköz ven şikayeti olan fakat herhangi bir tedavi görmeyen, doğumdan sonra ise şikayetleri gerileyen...

It was aimed to investigate the smoking behavior and attitudes of the relatives of the children in the ERs to determine whether current experience had any impact on the desire to quit. This study conducted with 300 patient relatives who applied to the pediatric ER of three hospitals in different cities between June 2019 and June 2020. Apart from th...

The reason why gambling increased and diversified for 3500 years is its characteristics of developing an addiction. Smoking, which is usually associated with gambling addiction, can be caused by the fact that smoking is used to give pleasure or keep away from stress. Transtheoretical model, which can be used in addiction treatments, can be effectiv...

Bu çalışmada hastanede yatan hastaların sigarayı bırakmak için danışmanlık isteme durumlarının değerlendirilmesi amaçlandı. Ordu Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi (OEAH)’nde yatan tüm hastalara sigara içme durumu ve hastanede yatarken sigara danışmanlığı isteme durumu başta olmak üzere kişisel bilgiler de içeren anket uygulandı. Veriler SPSS 15 istatis...

Geçmişten günümüze tütün ve zamanla sigaraya dönüşümünün tarihçesinde ilginç hikayelere denk gelmekteyiz. Birçok medeniyetin tütüne yüklediği, kendilerine has bir misyonu söz konusu olmuştur. Bu misyonlar aslında o medeniyetlerin olası sağlık sorunları ile ilgili de bize ışık tutmuştur. Tıp bilimi geliştikçe tütünün zararları konusunda ortak paydad...