Ozgul Karayurt

• Professor
• İzmir University of Economics

ZET Türkiye'de meme kanseri kadınlarda görülen ilk on kanser türünde birin-ci sırada (yüz binde 37.6) yer almaktadır. Meme kanseri tanısı, hasta için sadece tıbbi bir problem değildir, aynı zamanda ciddi duygusal ve sosyal etkileri vardır. Meme kanserli kadınların kapsamlı hemşirelik girişimleri-ne gereksinimleri vardır. Bu gereksinimlerini karşıla...

Determining the symptoms in the radiotherapy (RT) process increases the quality of life by contributing to the determination of the priorities of the nurses to meet the needs of the patients and the planning of the nursing interventions. The aim of this study was to identify the symptoms seen before, during and after RT in breast cancer patients an...

Purpose The aim of this study is to examine the effects of pain management education on nursing students' knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs concerning pain management in Turkey. Design and Methods A quasi‐experimental design with pretest/posttest measures was used. The study sample included 79 students. Findings The nursing students were found to...

Objective: The study was performed to reveal experiences of adolescents and their families in the short-term after scoliosis surgery. Methods: This study had a qualitative descriptive design, and data were collected from adolescents with scoliosis surgery (n=17) and their family members (n=9) at in-depth interviews. Obtained data were analysed with...

Amaç: Karaciğer transplantasyonu son dönem akut ve kronik karaciğer yetmezliği olan hastalar için yaşam kurtaran bir tedavi yöntemidir. Karaciğer transplantasyonunun her ne kadar olumlu sonuçları olsa da alıcılar fiziksel, psikolojik ve sosyal açıdan birçok sorun yaşamaktadırlar. Bu nedenle alıcıların yaşanılan sorunlarla baş edebilmesi için danışm...

The aim of this study was to determine fear of falling in the first mobilization and affecting factors in older patients. The study had a descriptive and cross-sectional design. Data were collected in Izmir, Turkey between February 2014 and March 2016. The sample included 204 older patients undergoing joint replacement surgery. Fifty-seven-point fo...

This qualitative research study describes the experiences of child and adolescent liver transplant recipients and their parents during the patients' transition to adulthood. Data were collected from pediatric liver transplant recipients and their parents during individual interviews, and these were later analyzed using conventional content analysis...

Amac: Bu literatur incelemesinin amaci, Turkiye’de organ nakli hemsireliginin gecmisi ve bugunku durumu ile ilgili literatur bilgisi vermek ve organ nakli hemsireliginin gelecegi ile ilgili bakis acisi olusturmaktir. Sonuclar: Turkiye’de organ nakli uygulamalari kalp nakli ile 1969 yilinda baslamis bunu 1975 yilinda bobrek ve 1988 yilinda karaciger...

Breast cancer is the most frequent cancer in Turkey and other countries. It is not sufficient for women with breast cancer to receive medical treatment protocols (i.e. surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and hormone therapy) to overcome their disease. Breast cancer has biopsychosocial effects on the patients. Provision and maintenance of biopsychos...

Stomas cause various physical, psychological and social problems among individuals and their family members both when they are created and in the post-hospital period. In the present study, an in-depth interview was conducted with a family member of a person with stoma. A structured questionnaire was utilized in this interview period. The entire 60...

Introduction and Objective: The Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses recommended cooperation between team members, an error reporting system, and simplification and standardization of the work process, to achieve patient safety culture. This study aims to determine the patient safety culture among staff in an operating room and to examine...

Background/aim: This study aimed to determine the incidence of pressure ulcers in patients on mechanical ventilation and selected risk factors likely to play a role in pressure ulcer development. Materials and methods: The study included 110 patients recruited from an anesthesia critical care unit of a university hospital. Data were collected wi...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe the lived experiences of persons with stomas related to sexual function and perceptions and their expectations of the ostomy nurses who care for them. Design: Qualitative, phenomenological study. Subjects and setting: Fourteen persons living with an ostomy for least 2 months participated in th...

Background Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in Turkey. The emotional effects of this condition are experienced by the women and their families. Objective The aim of the study was to describe the experiences of women with breast cancer and their spouses from diagnosis to treatment completion. Methods This qualitative study with a d...

Liver transplant recipients must adapt to a new life after transplant. We report the effects of a support group on physical and psychosocial adaptation of liver transplant recipients. The study used a quasi-experimental design, comparing an intervention group and a control group. Data were collected between January 2011 and May 2012 with 73 liver t...

To investigate the validity and reliability of the Sexual Adjustment and Body Image Scale in Turkish breast cancer women. This is a methodological and cross-sectional study, and included 161 breast cancer women. The factor loadings in the exploratory factor analysis ranged from 0.83 to 0.90 for the sexual adjustment scales and ranged from 0.52 to 0...

This study sought to investigate immuno-suppressive medication adherence, therapeutic adherence, school performance, symptom experiences, and depression levels of patients having undergone liver transplant during childhood. We performed a retro-spective, cross-sectional, case-controlled study to compare the depression levels of subjects with those...

zet Giriş: Roy Uyum Modeli, hemşirelikte yaygın olarak kullanılan modellerden olup bireylerin uyum gereksinimlerinin belirlenmesini temel alarak insanın uyum sisteminde ve çevresinde meydana gelen değişimlere odaklanmaktadır. Amaç: Canlıdan karaciğer transplantasyonu sonrası alıcıların Roy Uyum Modeline göre deneyimlerini açıklamaktır. Yöntem: Araş...

Background: Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in Turkey. The emotional effects of this condition are experienced by the women and their families. Objective: The aim of the study was to describe the experiences of women with breast cancer and their spouses from diagnosis to treatment completion. Methods: This qualitative study wi...

PurposeTo investigate the validity and reliability of the Body Image Scale in Turkish ostomy patients.Methods This study has a methodological and cross-sectional design. A hundred patients with ostomy lasting for at least 2 months were recruited from an ostomy and wound care unit.FindingsConfirmatory factor analyses showed that goodness-of-fit inde...

The use of models in nursing provides nurses to focus on the role of nursing and its applications rather than medical practice. In addition, it helps patient care to be systematic, purposeful, controlled and effective. One of the commonly used models in nursing is Roy Adaptation Model. According to Roy adaptation model, the aim of nursing is to inc...

Introduction: Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) is widely used for the treatment of chronic pain causes the impairment of health-related quality of life (QoL). Nurses, as a membe rof multidisciplinary team, are a health Professional that play a role to reducing pain in patients with chronic pain and develop the life qualities of pa...

Objective:To reveal experiences of women who develop lymphedema due to primary breast cancer.Materials and Methods:This is a descriptive and qualitative research. Twenty women diagnosed with lymphedema due to primary breast cancer were included in the study. Data were collected with a patient characteristics form, a semi-structured interview form a...

Objective: The objective of this study was to examine the effect of personal consultancy service that is provided to patients with breast cancer on anxiety, depression, life quality and patient satisfaction.Materials and Methods: This study was a quasi-experimental and longitudinal study. The sample consisted of a total of 64 female patients (32 co...

Background: Breast cancer is the most frequent type of cancer among women in the world and the most common cause of deaths from cancer in females. In Turkey, breast cancer comes first in the list of the most frequent ten cancer types seen in women. As the incidence rate of breast cancer is high, many women having breast cancer in the family experi...

Background: Reference lists serve as a resource for the author's ideas. Inaccurate references hinder retrieval of documents, may prevent researchers from examining all of the work by an author and may result in authors not getting credit for their work. The aim of this study was to determine the number and types of errors in nursing research journa...

The primary site of cancer in Turkish women is breast cancer. The incidence of breast cancer is increasing in Turkey. The aim of the research was to educate women 40 years and older to increase their awareness on early detection and diagnosis, to facilitate the use of the early diagnosis methods, to improve the women's beliefs in relation breast ca...

The Breast Cancer Train the Trainer (TTT) program was designed to increase breast cancer awareness, improve knowledge about breast cancer among nurses, and provide quality care for breast cancer patients by trained nurses. A total of three programs were held and 82 nurses from different regions of Turkey attended this training. The educational acti...

To develop a valid and reliable scale to assess nursing student performance in clinical settings. In nursing education, clinical evaluation is important for students, teachers and patients and there is a need to evaluate with valid and reliable scales. Instrument development. Data were collected at 2002-2003 and 2003-2004 academic years and 350 eva...