Filiz Koc's research while affiliated with Eskisehir Osmangazi University and other places

Publications (7)

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Objective of the study is to get data about mothers' knowledge on car-safety seat usage with a detailed questionnaire. Methods: A total of 1270 questionnaires were obtained from female population aged between 18 and 45 years in Eskisehir city center. Results: 982 of them have ≥1 child and 645 out of them have ≥1 car. 24% of the participants' educat...
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The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of tinea pedis and manuum (dermatophyte infections of the hands and feet) in adults in rural areas of Turkey, the risk factors and self-administered treatment options. A total of 2,574 people living in a rural area were enrolled in the study. Participants were asked demographic data, hygienic hab...
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Objective: To define the demographic characteristics of diabetes patients receiving care at the primary stage to establish the number of diabetics with complications. Methodology: Patients who were referred to Eskisehir central village clinics in Turkey were included in the study. A survey was conducted via face-to-face interviews. Four hundred nin...
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Certain difficulties in daily life activities appear and quality of life (QoL) begins to deteriorate with old age. This study aimed at determining QoL and activities of daily living (ADL) of elderly people in rural areas of Eskişehir, and at identifying applicable factors in this regard. Cross-sectional study managed to reach 1301 (81.3%) of elderl...
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The objective of the study was to identify the vaginal douching habits and the factors that would have a connection with this practice in women from Eskisehir Province in Turkey. This descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted from 1 May to 30 June, 2005. In present study, any sampling technique was not used. The subjects were women belong...

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... Further, Erkoç et al. [20] reported that 53.1% of their patients regularly visited the physicians every 3 months. Similarly, Arslantaş et al. [21] reported that 77% of patients regularly visited physicians for a check-up, whereas Tekin Yanık and Erol [22] reported this value to be 68.4%. According to TURDEP [2], which is one of the largest studies to have been conducted in Turkey, an evaluation of patients with diabetes mellitus according to their place of residence reveals that the incidence of diabetes mellitus is slightly higher in urban areas than in rural areas. ...
... Women engage in douching behaviors across sociocultural and geographic settings. From the current literature review, there is little empirical agreement between vaginal douche [8,18,20,21,23,33,42,56,58,61,68] 11 Sex-related hygiene (e.g., cleaning before or after sex) [18-20, 38, 49, 55, 57, 58, 61, 68] 10 Prevent or treat infection [8, 19-21, 38, 53, 56, 58, 61, 68] 10 Cleaning after menses [21,38,55,56,58,68] 6 Prevent pregnancy [20,21,33,38,49,68] 6 Other (religious duty, traditional habit), vaginal drying/tightening [8,19,21,33,38,48,49,56,68] 9 ...
... Similarly, in a study in which 2,574 people were evaluated in a rural area in Turkey, it was stated that the incidence of fungal infections of the hands and feet was higher in men than in women (male OR: 1, female OR: 0.39), and it was stated that the difference was significant (p=0.000) (23). In this study, women's FCBS score was found to be higher which supported the literature. ...
... Many older adults cope with disease and general decline in health, and, therefore, health status is a major issue in daily life. Physical illnesses and health difficulties may lead to deterioration of functioning, chronic or/and acute pain, increase in interpersonal dependency, and decrease in quality of life (Arslantas et al., 2009;Khaje-Bishak et al., 2014). Accordingly, decreased vision, oncological and neurological diseases were found to increase suicidal risk in old age, especially among older men (Johnson et al., 2019;Waern et al., 2002), as well as medical or surgical treatment in the past (Ho et al., 2014). ...