There are about 15072 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Turkey. The country of the clinical trial is determined by the location of where the clinical research is being studied. Most studies are often held in multiple locations & countries.
After a stroke, most patients have poor ankle control and difficulty walking. Considering that proper foot placement will provide a more balanced and controlled gait, the aim of this study was to investigate the immediate effect of non-elastic ankle taping providing eversion support on gait balance in stroke patients.
The incidence of colorectal cancer ranks fourth worldwide after lung, prostate and breast cancers. Although chemotherapy has an important place in the treatment of colorectal cancers, it can cause side effects such as diarrhea and fatigue in patients. Cancer patients' ability to cope with treatment side effects can be benefited from technological developments. Studies have shown that mobile health applications reduce symptom experience and increase quality of life in patients with breast cancer and leukemia.
UMIT-1: A Randomised Phase Ib Study to Determine the Phase II dose and to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of intravenous (IV) Favipiravir & Ribavirin for the Treatment of CCHF
Ischemic stroke has high morbidity and mortality worldwide. Stroke patients experience physical, psychological, and social problems, and require rehabilitation. The aim of stroke rehabilitation is to support patients in optimizing their physical, functional, mental, social, and occupational aspects. Telerehabilitation-based coaching interventions are among the individualized interventions applied to patients. This study aimed to examine the effects of telerehabilitation-based coaching interventions on self-efficacy, modifiable risk factors, and repeated hospitalizations in patients with ischemic stroke. It is predicted that discharge education in disease management and telerehabilitation-based coaching interventions will increase self-efficacy, reduce modifiable risk factors (blood pressure, cholesterol, triglyceride, HbA1c levels, body mass index, smoking, and alcohol use), and reduce repeated hospitalizations. With an education booklet prepared for ischemic stroke patients and primary care providers, one-on-one face-to-face education is planned while patients are in the clinic on the fourth or fifth day of stroke. Determination of individual goals with motivational interview, sending educational videos prepared in cooperation with the multidisciplinary health team to the phones or e-mails of the patients, providing telerehabilitation-based coaching a total of seven times for three months after discharge, monitoring the targets set weekly and monthly, and monthly follow-up after three months. It is planned to support patients with practices such as achieving their goals, maintaining healthy lifestyle changes such as diet and physical activity, and monitoring metabolic parameters. The evaluation form of the education booklet, videos prepared with the cooperation of the multidisciplinary team, and phone call evaluation form will be evaluated by 10 experts. The preliminary application will be tested with 6 patients, and the final form will be provided. The second phase of the study was designed as a single-center, single-blind (participant), randomized controlled study. The study will be carried out with a total of 60 patients with ischemic stroke, 30 in the intervention group and 30 in the control group, who continued to be followed up and treated at the Neurology Clinic of Akdeniz University Hospital.
In obese patients, adequate pain relief in the postoperative period is an important parameter that affects patient comfort and hospital stay. Increasing patient comfort and recovery quality can be achieved by avoiding undesirable effects such as nausea, vomiting, and analgesia. This study aimed to investigate the effects of Bilateral External Oblique Intercostal Block (EOIB) and Perichondrial Modified Thoracoabdominal Nerve Block (M-TAPA) on postoperative acute pain scores (0-24 hours) and 24-hour opioid consumption in patients who underwent laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy.
Low back pain (LBP) is a prevalent issue among adolescent rowers, particularly males aged 14 to 16 years, with a high lifetime prevalence (94%) and point prevalence (65%). One of the mechanisms of lower back pain in rowing athletes is about the elasticity, stiffness and tone of the hamstring muscle. Current literature shows that stretching exercises, strengthening exercises and kinesiotaping affects hamstring viscoelasticity in various ways. Stretching exercises affect hamstring muscle tone and elasticity, strengthening exercises affect muscle stiffness and kinesiotaping affects muscle tone. While the effects of each of these interventions on viscoelastic properties individually are examined in the literature, studies comparing the effects of changes in viscoelastic properties caused by these interventions on low back pain, athletic disability index and athletic performance in rowers and their superiority among each other are lacking. The goal of this study is to change the viscoelasticity of the hamstring muscles and examine its effect on low back pain, disability index and athletic performance.
Family-Centered Care (FCC) is a care approach based on mutual respect, knowledge sharing, and collaboration among children, families, and healthcare professionals during the planning, implementation, and evaluation of healthcare. Nurses' supportive attitudes may positively influence their care practices and behaviors towards FCC. In this regard, educational training related to FCC may affect nurses' attitudes and behaviors. In the literature, it's evident that there is a need for studies examining how both the attitudes of nurses towards FCC a key determinant of their behavioral predispositions, and the parental satisfaction with healthcare services change in response to the provision of educational training. This study aims to determine the impact of the FCC educational training administered to nurses in pediatric clinics, primarily on nurses' attitudes towards FCC, and secondarily on parental satisfaction with healthcare. With this in mind, this study aims to determine the primary impact of the nurse centered FCC educational training, provided to nurses in pediatric clinics, on nurses' attitudes towards FCC, and its secondary impact on parental satisfaction with healthcare.
The importance of lifestyle changes to control risk factors in the prevention, treatment and management of coronary heart disease (CHD), a major health problem, has been emphasised. In addition, physical, social, psychological and occupational limitations arising from the disease negatively affect the quality of life and self-efficacy perceptions of individuals, making it difficult to comply with treatment and disease management. There are general self-efficacy and self-management scales for which Turkish validity and reliability studies have been conducted previously. However, these scales are not specific to coronary heart disease patients and evaluate either only self-efficacy or only self-management. The aim of this study was to adapt the Heart Health Self-efficacy and Self-Management Scale (HH-SESM) into Turkish and to investigate its validity and reliability in patients with coronary heart disease. The study is conducted in Cardiology outpatient clinics of Karaman Training and Research Hospital. Before the study, the purpose and content of the study will be explained to the participants and an informed consent form will be obtained from the participants. Since the sample size in validity and reliability studies should be at least 10 times the total number of scale items, at least 120 individuals will be included in the study as the number of items x number of options (12 x 10 = 120). Detailed medical history and sociodemographic information (age, gender, height, weight, body mass index, disease duration (months), occupation, daily working hours, educational status, sports/exercise habits) will be recorded. In order to measure self-management and self-efficacy levels, patients will be administered the HH-SESM, Self-care management in chronic diseases scale- Self-care subgroup questions and General self-efficacy scales.
The goal of this observational study is to evaluate cardiac and vascular health status of pediatric cancer survivors.
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) or syndrome X, which is increasingly prevalent in the world and in our country, is a disease that includes abdominal obesity, dyslipidemia, impaired glycemic control and hypertension components. It causes cardiovascular events such as myocardial hypertrophy, left ventricular diastolic dysfunction, atrial dilatation and atrial fibrillation. Low levels of physical activity can be caused by a wide variety of factors including environmental and genetic factors, age, race, sarcopenia, poor eating habits, postmenopausal period and smoking history. Factors such as genetic differences, diet, physical activity, age, gender and eating habits are reported to affect the prevalence of (MetS) and its components. Frailty is also emerging as a major issue for the elderly due to its debilitating effects on health outcomes. Frailty is a geriatric syndrome characterized by a gradual decrease in homeostatic tolerance and physiological reserve following exposure to stressors. Frailty predisposes older people to falls, delirium, hospitalizations and even death and is therefore considered a crucial transition between healthy ageing and disability. As a result of aging, degenerative changes in the central and peripheral vestibular system have been found. With age, the ability to regulate movement is impaired as a result of insufficient information in any of the sensory receptors or any disorder affecting the processing of these messages. This directly affects balance and postural control, leading to an increased risk of falls. In the light of the results of the studies in the literature, degenerative changes are observed in many systems in geriatric individuals and while the incidence of metabolic syndrome in these individuals is high, the number of studies evaluating their effects is not sufficient. Based on these deficiencies, it is aimed to examine metabolic syndrome, frailty, locomotive syndrome, balance and physical fitness in elderly individuals.