Browsing by Author "Akil, M"

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    INVESTIGATION OF THE CHILDREN'S MOTIVES FOR PARTICIPATING IN SPORTS AND THE DIFFICULTIES THEY EXPERIENCE
    Too, E; Akil, M; Akyüz, M
    The present study aims to investigate the motives of children for participating in sports and the difficulties they experience. The study was conducted on a sample of 500 people, 235 of whom were female and 265 were male. When the female students and male students were compared in terms of their motives for participation in sports, it was found out that the teamwork motives of the male students were higher than those of the female students and the motive for participation in sports of the ones who were engaged in sports was higher in all subdimensions except for the sub-dimension of fun. It was found out that the students who were engaged in sports experienced less difficulty compared to the children who were not engaged in sports in various sub-dimensions and in the total difficulties scores (p<0.05). Consequently, it can be said that the teamwork of the male students were stronger than that of the female students, the students who were not engaged in sports experienced more difficulties in many areas, and the difficulties experienced in the sub-dimensions differed between the branches.
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    A pilot comparative study between serological and genetic investigations in relationship to clinical outcomes on patients with cystic echinococcosis
    Altintas, N; Karamil, SA; Turkum, O; Akil, M; Sakarya, A; Bozkaya, H; Soltys, J; Altintas, N
    The aim of this study was to investigate whether Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assays (ELISA) and Western Blotting (WB) methods could contribute to the assessment of clinical outcomes in genotype-defined cystic echinococcosis (CE) patients. Twenty-nine human isolates and blood samples have been taken from patients who underwent surgery or percutaneous aspiration (PAIR) for therapeutic purposes at Ege University and Manisa Celal Bayar University Hospitals. All sera of patients were screened for the presence of E. granulosus IgG antibodies using in-house approved ELISA and WB methods. According to the ELISA results, five patients had high, thirteen patients had medium and eight patients had low specific antibody level response which ranged 1/640 -1/5000. Despite confirmed WB positivity three patients were found to be negative by ELISA. Immunoblot analysis of EgAg showed many protein bands with size of 8, 12, 20, 22, 24, 36, 75 and 90 kDa. Among of them, 8 - 12 kDa bands (90 %), 20 - 22 kDa and 36 kDa bands presented strong reactivity against human serum specimens. No serum samples from healthy control reacted with EgAg. Phylogenetic analysis of resulting COX1 and NAD1sequences has revealed that all patients in our study were infected with the E. granulosus G1-G3 genotype. There was no consistent correlation between results of ELISA and WB, the number or size of cysts and genotype. Our study brings a unique contribution in terms of relationship between serological investigation, disease genotypes and clinical outcomes.
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    Educational intervention for the awareness improvement and control programme design on Echinococcosis in Izmir, Turkey
    Altintas, NA; Altintas, NU; Yilmaz, OS; Akil, M; Ozturk, EA; Unver, A
    In Turkey, cyst hydatid disease (CHD) or cystic echinococcosis (CE) is publicly known as dog cyst, a fatal and serious disease not only affects livestock husbandry and human health but also brings about economic loss to our country. According to the data of the Ministry of Health; number of annual cases was 408 in 2008, and this number reached 1,867 by the end of 2019. Cystic echinococcosis is especially taken up during childhood and emerged at an older age. They become exposed to the eggs of the tapeworm after close contact with an infected dog or its contaminated environment. The infected dogs also pass in their feces E. granulosus eggs that adhere to the dogs' hairs, and pass on to the children who are in the course of playful and intimate contact with the infected dogs. This study was to create the awareness of risk factors of CE among 10 different districts of Izmir province. Awareness raising seminars are essential component of this study because local people living in CE endemic areas, are crucial to continue and sustain the long-time effort that is needed to tackle this disease. In each district, 3 awareness raising seminars were held to the target groups: (a) in schools for students, teachers, administrators, (b) for general public, (c) for healthcare professionals. 4090 students attended to the trainings, 242 administrators and teachers who attended to the presentations together with the students, 524 people were attended to the trainings and 327 health workers attended to the trainings from different institutions. This study helped improving this situation by organising educational events for the rural populations for preventing transmission of the disease. This is the first educational intervention study regarding creating awareness on CE in Izmir Province which includes 10 districts between January 2019 to January 2020.