The objective of this study was to describe the experiences and practices of nurses who provide palliative and end-of-life care to oncology patients, to determine the difficulties they encounter in ...this regard, and to determine how they cope with it.
Data were collected between December 10 and 27, 2022, at a hospital's palliative care clinic. The descriptive phenomenological approach, which is a qualitative research method, was used in this study. The sample of the study consisted of 12 nurses who provided palliative and end-of-life care to oncology patients in a city hospital. The research data were collected with the nurse descriptive form and a semi-structured interview form. Descriptive statistics and the thematic content analysis method were used in the analysis of the data.
The themes that emerged as a result of the interviews with nurses who provided palliative and end-of-life care to oncology patients in palliative units were "various learning experiences," "responsibilities in caregiving," "nursing care practices," "personal motivation sources for nurses," "difficulties," and "experience in coping with difficulties."
In this study, it was determined that nurses who provide palliative and end-of-life care to oncology patients are exposed to some difficulties as a result of their professional experience, that, in addition, they had various learning experiences, and that their coping skills were team cohesion and training. In line with the results of the study, it is recommended to structure palliative in-service training after graduation, to arrange for palliative care centers, and to consider the problems experienced in determining the needs.
This study aims to examine the mediating role of loneliness in the effect of physical activity barriers on quality of life.
The sample of the study consisted of 374 people over the age of 65 who ...applied to a hospital. The data collection tools used in the study are 'Personal Information Form', 'Physical Activity Barriers Questionnaire' 'World Health Organization Quality of Life Instrument-Older Adults Module' and 'Loneliness Scale for the Elderly'. The mediating effect analysis was conducted through the 'Process Macro' developed by Hayes.
According to the obtained results, loneliness mediates the relationship between physical activity barriers and quality of life. Individuals with high levels of loneliness and physical activity barriers have lower levels of quality of life. When the results of the regression analysis indicating the mediating effect were analyzed, it was determined that the effect of physical activity barriers on quality of life were negative and significant. As the level of physical activity barriers increases, the level of quality of life decreases.
In conclusion, it was determined that loneliness plays a mediating role in the relationship between physical activity barriers and the level of quality of life. The study results suggest that adopting a physically active lifestyle is important to reduce adverse health outcomes in the elderly.
Background/objectives
It is important to determine the educational needs of pediatric oncology nurses in order to maximize and implement nursing care interventions. Therefore, this study aims to ...develop a valid and reliable measurement tool to determine pediatric oncology nurses’ educational needs and examine its psychometric properties.
Design/methods
This methodological study was conducted with 215 pediatric oncology nurses in Turkey between December 2021 and July 2022. Data were collected with the “Nurse Information Form” and “Pediatric Oncology Nurses’ Educational Needs Scale.” IBM SPSS 21.0 and IBM AMOS 25.0 software programs were used for data analysis, and descriptive statistics were used to analyze numeric variables. Exploration and confirmatory factor analyses were performed to determine the scale's factorial structure.
Results
The factorial analysis was used to test the structural validity of the scale. A five‐factor structure consisting of 42 items was developed. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient for “Illness” was .978, “Chemotherapy and Side Effect” was .978, “Another Therapy and Side Effect” was .974, “Palliative Care” was .967, “Supportive Care” was .985, and the total score was .990. Fit indices resulting from the study were χ2/SD: 3.961, root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA): 0.072, goodness‐of‐fit index (GFI): 0.95, comparative‐of‐fit index (CFI): 0.96, and normed fit index (NFI): 0.95.
Conclusion
The Pediatric Oncology Nurses’ Educational Needs Scale is a valid and reliable scale for pediatric oncology nurses to determine their educational needs.
Objective
We analyzed the nomophobia concept to develop the “Fırat Nomophobia Scale” to determine the level of nomophobia in individuals aged 15–65 years.
Design and Measures
A linguistically and ...psychometrically validated trial form consisting of 13 statements was applied to a sample of 678 individuals (69% women).
Results
The “Nomophobia Scale” that we developed consisted of a single dimension and eight items, explicating 55.9% of the variance concerning nomophobia.
Conclusions
Our findings suggest that the Fırat Nomophobia Scale is an economical scale with a low number of items and high variance. In addition, it provides valid and reliable measurements.
Practice Implications
The present study signifies the importance of research on nomophobia and determining the risk groups and protection strategies.
This study investigated the predictive effects of nomophobia, netlessphobia, and sleepiness on fatigue. The sample consisted of 907 students from a public university. Data were collected using ...Demographical Information Form, the Firat Netlessphobia Scale, the Firat Nomophobia Scale, the Epworth Sleepiness Scale, and the Chalder Fatigue Scale. Therefore, structural equation modeling was used to identify factors affecting fatigue. The structural equation modeling was performed using the Analysis of Moment Structures. The results showed that nomophobia, netlessphobia, and sleepiness predicted fatigue, explaining 31% of the total variance. Nomophobia and netlessphobia predicted sleepiness, with nomophobia and netlessphobia explaining 18% and 30% of the total variance, respectively. Keywords: Fatigue, nomophobia, netlessphobia, sleepiness, student
The purpose of this systematic review was to reveal the evidence of how the method of flipped classroom was applied in nursing education and examine the results associated with this teaching method.
...Peer-reviewed studies published from 2013 to 2020 were selected from the PubMed, Web of Science, and Science Direct databases.
A systematic review was conducted according to the PRISMA Statement Guidelines. Electronic databases were searched using a range of keywords, and the findings were integrated into a narrative synthesis. Quality appraisal was undertaken.
In total, 7470 articles were retrieved including the 24 paper those were finally selected for the systematic reviews. The themes identified were: academic performance outcomes, student perceptions, activities, and structures.
It was determined that the flipped classroom method supported learning effectively and increased the quality of teaching. Nursing courses are suggested to be structured as flipped classrooms.
The present study evaluated the effect of the nursing care provided to the mothers of the infants born with a cleft lip and palate (CLP) until the time of cleft palate (CP) repair surgery, on ...maternal attachment and self-efficacy.
The present study was designed as a quasi-experimental study with a pre-test and post-test control group design. The study included 32 mothers whose infants were born with CLP and had undergone CL repair surgery. Nursing care was provided to the mothers and the infants included in the study group through a total of seven home visits over a period of nine weeks. The data for the study were collected using a socio-demographic form, a home-care needs evaluation form, the Maternal Attachment Inventory (MAI), and the Parental Self-Efficacy Scale (PSE).
The scores for the mothers in the intervention group increased as the visits progressed, and it was observed that by the end of the ninth week, the difference between the mothers in the intervention group and those in the control group in terms of post-test MAI and PSE had become statistically significant.
Providing nine weeks of home-based nursing care to the mothers and the infants has the potential of reducing the problems experienced by the mothers of infants born with CLP.
Practice implications.
Obtaining a better understanding of the barriers to the nursing care provided to the mothers of the infants born with CLP in-home setting would contribute immensely to the development of appropriate nursing-care practices.
•Providing home‐based nursing care for mothers and infants during nine-week has the potential to reduce the problems experienced by the mothers of infants born with CLP•The provision of nursing care in the home improves parental self-efficacy, enhances maternal attachment, improves coping skills, and supports the maternal acquisition of information and skills related to the maternal care of infants born with CLP.•The emergence of outcomes with negative effects on the infant’s health is inevitable if the mothers of infants born with CLP are not well supported.
Objective:
To explore parenting stress and factors affecting the mothers of infants with cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P) in Turkey.
Design and Participants:
The study compared mothers of infants born ...with CL/P (n = 90) with mothers of healthy infants (n = 90). Mothers completed the data collection form, the Parenting Stress Index-Short Form, and the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support.
Results:
Mothers of infants born with CL/P had higher mean parenting stress scores than the control mothers. A significant negative relationship was found between social support and parenting stress for mothers of infants born with CL/P but was not related for control mothers. Among mothers with an infant with CL/P, the mean parenting stress scores were higher for mothers preoperatively than mothers responding postoperatively. Among mothers with an infant with a cleft, higher stress was found for diagnosis after birth, not breastfeeding, feeding difficulties, lack of fathers’ support, perceived difficult infant temperament, blame, anger, and concern for the future.
Conclusion:
Parenting stress was higher and social support was lower for mothers of infants with a cleft. Treatment teams can design interventions aimed at factors related to stress, such as addressing feeding issues, teaching coping skills, and linking to social support.
To determine the purpose of the parents of infants with cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P) for using Facebook, how they share for the audience and what kind of information they search for.
The results of ...the study were analyzed using qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Data were collected for one major social media platform (Facebook) from public accounts dedicated to CL/P. The former involved thematic and word count analysis for online posts on the Facebook platform, while the latter employed descriptive statistics.
Facebook has a total of 8 group accounts and 7695 users in Turkey. Among the 702 posts analyzed, “requesting information” was found to be the most commonly encountered theme (55.4%). This study, it was determined that especially parents of infants with CL/P need information about surgery. The “announcement” was mentioned in only 3.3% of all posts. Our text analysis of 17.134 words mentioned in posts revealed that the most common word was surgery (6.6%).
The current study provides a comprehensive reference to the role of social media in CL/P.
In the near future, analysis of patients' and public knowledge and perception of surgery will be an important next step in building greater awareness of its role in the management of CL/P.
•The study demonstrates how the CL/P anomalies impact parents' dynamics and the relationships between parent members, resulting in the need for support and care.•The study illustrates how nurses should be aware that it is essential to give attention to individual parent members’ perspectives.•It is the first publication that determines the use of social media among Turkish parents of infants with CL/P.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of “internet addiction level” on “aggression level” among teenagers and to examine the mediating role of “social anxiety level” on this effect. ...The study participants consisted of 958 students attending private teaching institutions for university preparation in Turkey. Data was collected from voluntary participants through data collection forms delivered to the management of these institutions. “Sociodemographic Characteristics Questionnaire Form”, “Young’s Internet Addiction Test”, “Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire” and “Social Anxiety Scale” were used as data collection tools. A regression analysis based on the bootstrap method was implemented to test whether “social anxiety level” had a mediating role on the influence of students’ “internet addiction level” on “aggression level”. According to the findings, it was determined that the indirect effect of “internet addiction” on “aggression” was significant, and therefore, “social anxiety level” mediated the relationship between “internet addiction” and “aggression".
