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Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the diabetes burden in elderly individuals along with successful ageing, which defines how well individual ages contribute to coping with the disease and diabetes management. This study also aimed to evaluate the relationship between diabetes burden and successful ageing in elderly individuals with...

Betty Neuman’ın 1970’de geliştirdiği Sistemler Modeli birey / toplumun, strese / stresörlere olan tepkisi ve hemşirenin bu tepkiye birincil, ikincil ve üçüncül koruma girişimleriyle müdahalede bulunmasıdır. Neuman bu modelde sadece sağlık veya hastalık değil aynı zamanda insan odaklı bütüncül yaklaşım kavramına değinmiştir. Model hastayı çevresiyle...

Spiritual well-being is considered a significant factor in helping to manage chronic diseases and cope with the disease process. This descriptive-correlational study aimed to investigate the relationship between spiritual well-being, diabetes burden, self-management, and among 300 outpatients with type 2 diabetes in Turkey. A significant relationsh...

Spiritual well-being is considered a signifcant factor in helping to manage chronic diseases and cope with the disease process. This descriptive-correlational study aimed to investigate the relationship between spiritual well-being, diabetes burden, self-management, and among 300 outpatients with type 2 diabetes in Turkey. A signifcant relationsh...

Objective: This study aimed to investigate female sexual function in patients with type 1 diabetes by comparing female sexual function index scores between women with and without type 1 diabetes. Methods: A total of 62 women with type 1 diabetes and 69 age-matched women without diabetes but with similar backgrounds were enrolled in the patient a...

Bu araştırma, Türkiye’de reiki uygulaması ile ilgili yapılan lisansüstü hemşirelik tezlerini incelemek amacıyla yapılmıştır. Sistematik derleme tipinde olan çalışma, Yüksek Öğretim Kurulu Başkanlığı Ulusal Tez Merkezi Veri Tabanı kullanılarak taranmıştır. Tarama “reiki” anahtar kelimesi kullanılarak Temmuz 2022 – Ağustos 2022 tarihleri arasında yap...

Background/aimFungal foot infections are common and increase the risk of diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) in patients with diabetes. We aimed to investigate the clinical features and related risk factors in type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus patients with suspected fungal feet infection (SFFI) in an outpatient setting.Methods This is a single center, cr...

Introduction: Telemedicine is a follow-up system that can improve the quality of management and cost-effectiveness of rapidly increasing diabetes patients. Methods: Two hundred adult patients with diabetes were enrolled in this prospective, randomized study. Consecutive patients were divided equally into two groups. Both groups received routine car...

Aim and objective: This study was conducted to examine the development, characteristics, and risk factors of medical device-related pressure injury (MDRPI) in intensive care units (ICU). Background: The number of individuals admitted to ICU increased in the last years all over the world. In parallel with this need, the frequency of the use of li...

Background Diabetes education in Turkey is provided by diabetes nurse educators in almost all healthcare organizations. However, the education is not standardized in terms of learning content, duration, and methods. This multi-center study was performed to assess the self-care behaviors and glycemic control following education provided to the patie...

Religious coping is considered an important factor for assisting with the management of chronic diseases. This study was conducted to determine the relationship between religious coping and disease acceptance and management among patients with diabetes. A total of 504 individuals with type 2 diabetes were included in this descriptive-correlational...

Psychological health problems such as depression, anxiety and feelings of distress are often seen in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Religious coping in dealing with psychological health problems is one of the methods commonly used by cardiac patients. This study was conducted to determine the depression levels and religious coping met...

Aim: With the school health nursing screening program, which was carried out as a pilot study, it was aimed to examine the health status of school children and the affecting factors. Method: This study was conducted with 115 third- and fourth-grade students in a state primary school in Istanbul. Within the scope of the health screening program, the...

Aim and Objective This study was conducted to assess whether there is an association between alexithymia in patients with diabetes and the levels of perceived social support and glycaemic control. Background In the literature, whether inadequate perceived social support is a cause or effect of alexithymia has also not been clearly explained. It is...

Amaç: Diyabetik ayağın önlenmesinde, düzenli ayak bakımı en etkili yöntemdir. Bu çalışma, diyabet tanısı alan bireylerde ayak bakım davranışlarını ve ilişkili faktörleri belirlemek amacıyla yapılmıştır. Yöntem: Tanımlayıcı ve ilişkisel olarak yapılan çalışmaya bir üniversite hastanesinin diyabet polikliniğine başvuran 520 diyabetli birey dahil edil...

Purpose: This study aimed (1) to compare physical activity (PA) indicators, metabolic biomarkers, and comorbidity, (2) to investigate the relationship between PA indicators and metabolic biomarkers, comorbidity and (3) to identify barriers to PA in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) who are using oral hypoglycaemic agent (OHA) or combined OHA and...

Objective: The aim of this study is to check the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Risk Perception Survey-Diabetes Mellitus Scale. Method: This is a methodological study. The linguistic equivalency of the scale was achieved and expert views were taken for context validity. The reliability of the scale was determined through tes...

A New Approach in Nursing Education and Practice: Integration of Nursing Education and Practice Objective: In this study, it was aimed to make a model for the establishing the best cooperation and integration of university and education-research hospitals in nursing education and practice. Method: The descriptive study was conducted on April 5, 20...

Amaç: Bu çalışma diabetes mellitus nedeniyle izlenen hastalarda kan şekeri ölçüm sıklığı ile diyabet regülasyonu ve diyabetin komplikasyonları arasındaki ilişkiyi belirlemek amacıyla yapılmıştır. Bireyler ve Yöntem: Çalışma 951 diyabetli hastanın (tip1= 90, tip2= 861) dosyalarının retrospektif olarak incelenmesi ile gerçekleştirilmiştir. Hastaların...

Aims: This study aimed to determine risk factors for type 2 diabetes among adults who were not diagnosed with diabetes. Methods: Adults were included in this study within the public activities performed on World Diabetes Day (n=1872). Data were collected using the FINDRISC questionnaire and a short questionnaire. Results: Participants' mean ag...

Purpose: Diabetes mellitus (DM) and obesity (OB) are rising problems globally, and are also rapidly growing health issues in Turkey. The lack of a proper public awareness has worsened the situation, thereby hampering the implementation of preventive measures. The aim of the present study was to evaluate a questionnaire, speci?cally designed for mea...

Purpose: The aim of the study was to compare lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) in women with and without type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). Subjects and setting: The sample was drawn from community-dwelling women in the province of Istanbul who were cared for in the diabetes outpatient clinic of Istanbul Medical School between January and June 201...

Objektive: The purpose of this study was to examine correlates and depression among married women with Type II diabetes attended the diabetes outpatient clinic. We studied depression in women with Type II diabetes in relation to their demographic, medical and biochemical characteristics. Method:The study sample included 351 women with Type II diabe...

Purpose: To examine the psychometric properties of a Turkish version of the Diabetes Fear of Injecting and Self-testing Questionnaire (D-FISQ). Methods: Forward-backward translation of the D-FISQ from English into Turkish was conducted. Original English and translated forms were examined by a panel group. Validity was investigated using content, co...

Study Group for Diabetic Foot Infections of the Turkish Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases has called for collaboration of the relevant specialist societies and the Ministry of Health to issue a national consensus report on the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diabetic foot (DF) wounds and diabetic foot infections (DFIs)...

Objective: To determine if there is an impact of high sensitive C-reactive protein (hsCRP) levels across different glucose tolerance categories. Material and Method: Data derived from recently completed population-based survey, ‘The Prevalence of Diabetes, Obesity, Hypertension and Endocrine Disease in Turkey’ (TURDEP-II), which was performed in ad...

Fasting plasma glucose (FPG) and hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) have been used to diagnose new-onset diabetes mellitus (DM) in order to simplify the diagnostic tests compared with the 2-hour oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT; 2-hPG). We aimed to identify optimal cut-off points of high sensitive C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) in new-onset DM people based on FP...

Aim: The present study was performed to evaluate the psychosocial adjustment to illness and methods of coping with stress among young adults with type 1 diabetes.Method: One hundred twenty-eight patients admitted to the diabetes clinic between August 2012 and January 2013c omprised the sample of this study designed as a cross-sectional and descript...

This study was conducted on a cross-sectional basis for the purpose of determining the prevalence of sexual dysfunction (SD) and sexual quality of life in women with diabetes and, showing the correlation of them with some variables associated with diabetes. The study recruited 423 women with diabetes, through a diabetic center for control from Janu...

Introduction: The accurate and comprehensive assessment of glycaemic control in pregnant with gestational diabetes (GDM) is important for preventing foetal complications. We aimed to determine glycaemic variation on women with GDM with using a continuous glucose monitoring system (CGMS) and to investigate the relationship between reflecting glucose...

Objective: Our purpose was to evaluate the impact of a transmission system on metabolic control of patients with diabetes. Research design and methods: This ongoing-prospective, randomized, comparative study included adult patients with type 1 (n=71) and type 2 diabetes (n=139). Consecutive patients were equally allocated into two groups. Both grou...

The objective of this qualitative study on young adults with type 1 diabetes was to determine the factors associated with mismanagement of diabetes. In this qualitative study, a descriptive phenomenological and psychological method was followed. Purposeful sampling method was used in this study. 28 young adults aged 18-25 with type 1 diabetes (16 f...

DOI: 10.5152/kd.2015.29 Diyabetik Ayak Yarası ve İnfeksiyonunun Tanısı, Tedavisi ve Önlenmesi: Ulusal Uzlaşı Raporu Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention of Diabetic Foot Wounds and Infections: Turkish Consensus Report Neşe Saltoğlu1, Önder Kılıçoğlu2, Selçuk Baktıroğlu3, Zeynep Oşar-Siva4, Şamil Aktaş3,5, Muzaffer Altındaş6, Caner Arslan7, Turan Asl...

Aim and objectivesTo improve the knowledge and skills of diabetic patients on insulin injections using mobile phone short message services and to evaluate the association of this intervention with metabolic outcomes.Background Mobile communication technologies are widely used in Turkey, which maintains a diabetic population of more than 6·5 million...

Objectives: This study was designed as a descriptive trial aimed at identifying learning needs of patients hospitalized at a university hospital and understanding whether these learning needs vary depending on certain patient characteristics. Methods: The study sample consisted of 1190 patients/caregivers hospitalized at all departments except for...

Background and aims: In women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) abnormal glucose metabolism normalizes soon after delivery. However, the history of GDM predisposes to carbohydrate intolerance in the future. The aim of this study was to evaluate risk factors predicting to future development of diabetes mellitus (DM) in women with a history of...

Determination of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) in diabetic women with and without urinary incontinence (UI) and its related factors is significant to define essential measures associated with prevention. The aim of this study is to compare the features of diabetes mellitus (DM) in diabetic women with and without UI, and to investigate LUTS an...

This study aimed to investigate female sexual dysfunction in patients with type 2 diabetes. Using the Index of Female Sexual Function, the authors compared the sexual function of type 2 diabetic women with that of nondiabetic women. Participants were 76 sexually active women with type 2 diabetes (study group) and 100 sexually active nondiabetic wom...

Objective: The objective of this study was to assess the effects of Ramadan fasting on daily life routines and metabolic conditions in diabetic patients. Material and Methods: The study sample consisted of 26 patients with Type 2 diabetes who fasted during Ramadan. Data on changes daily life routine and metabolic variables were gathered before and...