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    Time Spent on the Internet, Blood Pressure, and Loneliness in Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Study
    (ERCIYES UNIV SCH MEDICINE) Çakir, O; Çetinkaya, A
    Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship among the time spent on the internet, blood pressure values, and loneliness levels in adolescents. Materials and Methods: The study was planned with an analytical cross-sectional approach in the Manisa province, Turkey. The study was conducted in five high schools in a Turkish city in 2016. The study was carried out with 686 high school students in the Manisa province, Turkey. Data collection tools used in the study were personal information form, height and blood pressure measurement form, and UCLA loneliness scale. Results: According to this study, 34.4% of participants were found to be excessively spending their time on the internet. The prevalence of hypertension and prehypertension in adolescents was found to be 10.3% and 5.4%, respectively. There was no relationship between the time spent on the internet and blood pressure levels of adolescents (p=0.751). However, there is a relationship between the time spent on the internet and loneliness levels of adolescents (p=0.041). Conclusion: Particularly, integrating these dimensions of adolescent health into school guidance and psychological counseling units and primary health care services is considered to be important.
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    An Academic-Clinical Partnership Project: The Effects of a Scientific Research Skills Education Program
    (ERCIYES UNIV SCH MEDICINE) Çetinkaya, A; Büyük, DS; Özmen, D; Tayhan, A; Uyar, F
    Objective: The present study aims to reveal the effects of the education program provided to nurses on their perceived obstacles to conducting scientific research and attitude for scientific research. Materials and Methods: This interventional study in the pre-test post-test model was carried out between February 2018 and August 2018. The universe of this study consisted of nurses working in three maior public hospitals in Manisa (N= 1023). The sample was composed of nurses who worked in these hospitals and agreed to participate in this research (n= 106). The sociodemographic questionnaire, the nurse and presentation subscales of the barriers to research utilization scale and the attitude scale for scientific research were used in data collection. The scientific research skills education program was presented to the nurses participating in this research. Results: There was a significant difference between pre and post scores of the participants in the reluctance to help researchers, negative attitude towards research and positive attitude towards researchers subscales of attitude towards scientific research scale (p<0.05), but there was no significant difference between the pre and post scores of the participants in the subscales of the barriers to research utilization scale and positive attitude towards research subscale of attitude towards scientific research scale (p>0.05). Conclusion: After the educational program, the findings showed that the participants' reluctance to help the researchers and their negative attitudes towards research decreased, and a positive attitude towards researchers increased. As a result, while education intervention affected nurses' attitudes towards research, it had no effect on their perceptions of an obstacle to scientific research.
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    Effects of Attitudes of Patients with Epilepsy Towards Their Disease on Mental Health and Quality of Life
    (ERCIYES UNIV SCH MEDICINE) Akyol, T; Nehir, S
    Objective: The study investigates the effects of attitudes displayed by patients with epilepsy toward their disease on their mental health and quality of life. Materials and Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in the neurology outpatient clinic at Hafsa Sultan Hospital, Manisa Celal Bayar University between April 2015 and April 2016. The study sample comprised 182 patients. The study data were collected using the Personal Information Form for Patients with Epilepsy, Impact of Epilepsy Scale, Epilepsy Knowledge Scale, Epilepsy Attitude Scale, Short Form-36 (Quality of Life Scale), and Brief Symptom Inventory. In the analysis of the data, the t-test, ANOVA, Scheffe's post-hoc test, and Pearson's correlation coefficient were used. Results: In the Epilepsy Attitude Scale, the participants obtained a mean score of 48.66 +/- 13.13, suggesting that they displayed negative attitudes toward epilepsy. In the subscales of the Short Form-36 (Quality of Life Scale), the participants' scores were low. Of the participants with epilepsy, those with a significantly positive attitude toward epilepsy had a high quality of life perception. Psychological symptoms decreased in patients with epilepsy who have a positive attitude toward their disease. Conclusion: The results of this study demonstrated that the participants' attitudes toward epilepsy was significantly correlated to their psychological symptoms and quality of life. The fact that the negative attitudes of patients with epilepsy are related to their psychological symptoms and quality of life indicates the importance of recognizing and understanding patients' attitudes toward their disease.