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.
The aim of this study is to examine the effect of education and counseling given to women according to the Theory of Planned Behavior on weight management. This study will be conducted as a single-blind randomized controlled study consisting of intervention and control groups. A total of 78 overweight and obese women included in the study. The participants assigned to either of the groups by the block randomization method. A training program consisting of a total of five sessions applied to the intervention group, and counseling will be provided for 6 months. The data will be analyzed with Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) 22.0 package program.
The present study was conducted with 44 patients who applied to the Endoscopy Unit of a university hospital for sedation-free colonoscopy between January 2, 2020 and September 28, 2020, met the inclusion criteria and agreed to participate in the study. The patients were homogeneously divided into experimental (n=22) and control (n=22) groups based on their gender and history of colonoscopy. The patients in the experimental group watched a 360 degree virtual reailty (VR) video with atmospheric background music over images and sounds of nature through virtual reality glasses while no application was performed for the patients in the control group during the procedure. The "Demographic Information Form", "Trait Anxiety Scale", "Visual Analog Scale-Pain", "Visual Analog Scale-Anxiety", "Vital Signs Monitoring Chart" and "Satisfaction Evaluation on the Virtual Reality Glasses Application" forms were used in the data collection phase. For the study, an ethics committee approval was obtained in addition to written consent by the institutions and patients. Numbers, percentages, the Chi-square test, the Wilcoxon test and the Mann-Whitney U test were used for data analysis.
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a genetic disease that affects many organs and systems, especially respiratory system problems due to lung damage. Patients often have difficulty in removing the sticky and viscous secretion that accumulates in the respiratory tract, and the risk of mortality increases with the development of respiratory failure. In patients with CF, exercise capacity, peripheral muscle strength, core endurance, flexibility, postural stability, physical activity level, and quality of life also decrease secondarily. Recently published guidelines recommend respiratory physiotherapy for coping with CF-related symptoms and recommend referral of patients to physical activity and exercise. Hippotherapy simulator is a mechanical exercise tool that imitates the walking movement of a real horse and is used to increase physical fitness parameters. This study aims to show the effects of exercises performed with a hippotherapy simulator in addition to respiratory physiotherapy on physical fitness, sputum production, physical activity and quality of life of children with CF.
Standing, stooping and crouching are considered important physical demands of the work, which are among the 20 physical work demands defined in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles(1, 2). Agricultural workers, underground miners, aircraft baggage handlers, plumbers, mechanics and many other workers adopt these postures(3-7). These postures are also used in daily activities such as gardening, shopping andcleaning(8).Standing describes an upright position without moving(2). Maintaining this position requires sustained musclea ctivity in various muscles of the body known as the antigravity muscles(9). Stooping consists of bending the torso forward and down with the legs in a relatively straight position. Crouching is an activity performed with the flexion of the hip, knee and ankle while the trunk is in a vertical position. During stooping, the lower back and posterior leg muscles are stretched. Crouching involves similar length changes, particularly in the quadriceps and ankle plantar flexor muscles, as a result of significant flexion in the knee and ankle joints.Unlike standing, as the hip and knee joints are fully flexed during crouching, activation of the quadriceps and calf muscles is potentially required to support lower extremities and weight transfer between limbs(10). Consideration of the flexibility defined as the maximum range of motion, and the muscular strength associated with the amount of external force a muscle can exert(11, 12), may provide a different perspective to the health care professionals during the interpretation of the work or daily activities. Knowing the relationship between standing, stooping and crouching performances with the direct measurement methods such as flexibility and strength may help to make a more accurate decision during the health care assessments and guiding individuals who have difficulties in these activities to the appropriate rehabilitation program. Starting from this point of view, in this study, we aimed to evaluate the relationship between flexibility and muscular strength tests with standing, stooping and crouching performances.
Numerous vaccination studies are conducted to protect against COVID-19 infection, and preclinical and clinical studies are still ongoing worldwide. During this extraordinary period, the necessity to perform COVID-19 vaccine studies and immunization programs together has emerged. Many manufacturing companies have started mass production of vaccines accepting the risk of failure of vaccines during trials. Vaccine Adverse Effects (VAEs) need to be documented quickly. We aimed to determine the VAEs and to compare the frequency of VAEs between groups according to socio-demographic characteristics after the inactivated vaccine (Corona Vac®) was administered to healthcare workers (HCWs) in Turkey. In this study, an online questionnaire was delivered to volunteer healthcare workers across the whole country. Sociodemographic characteristics, medical history, history of COVID-19 infection, and VAEs occurring after the first and second doses of inactivated vaccine were evaluated.
Although many researchers would agree that obesity per se is not a risk factor for difficult intubation, there are many well known obesity-related challenges in airway management including difficulty with mask ventilation, more frequent and rapid oxygen desaturation, increased oxygen consumption, and increased sensitivity to the respiratory depressant effects of anesthetic and analgesic drugs. Hence, in these conditions, rapid and nontraumatic intubation gain higher interest. There is controversy about using videoaryngoscopy (VL) in obese patients in these difficult situations. The primary aim of this study is to compare, in terms of intubation time, VL,VL plus stylet and direct-laryngoscopy(DL) plus stylet combination with DL alone in obese patients.
The study seeks to determine the value of CASUS in predicting mortality as compared with APACHE II scoring system among patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting.
It has been described in obese individuals in which decreased basal metabolism as well as dopaminergic changes in the prefrontal cortex and striatum parallels the increased activation of reward brain regions in response to delicious food cues. Our aim is to explore different neurobehavioral dimensions of food choices and motivational processes in the light of this information, and to reveal whether these behaviors can be changed by operant conditioning with neuroimaging methods for phenotypes at risk.
This study was planned to examine the effect of aerobic exercises on depression in geriatric individuals with a diagnosis of depression.
This study aimed to evaluate the sensory processing abilities of adults with acquired hearing loss and to explore the differences in sensory processing between adults with hearing loss and adults with normal hearing. Sensory processing functions of 30 adults with acquired hearing loss will be evaluated using the Adolescent/Adult Sensory Profile. The data from adults with hearing loss will be compared with data from 30 adults with normal hearing who were similar in gender and age.