The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of parenting styles and academic self-efficac... more The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of parenting styles and academic self-efficacy on emotional eating behaviours within a sample of adolescents. The sample of this cross-sectionally designed study consisted of 584 adolescents between the ages of 12–17 years. In order to collect necessary data, the Emotional Eating Scale for Child and Adolescent, the Parenting Style Scale and Academic Self-efficacy Scale were utilized. In this sample, Emotional Eating Scale’s total score of girls was higher than boys, and emotional eating was not related to body mass index. Parenting styles and academic self-efficacy predicted 34% of the variants seen in emotional eating behaviours of adolescents. While a positive relation existed between emotional eating and negligent parenting style, a negative significant relation occurred between permissive and democratic type of parenting styles and emotional eating. In addition, emotional eating behaviours decreased, whereas academic self-effic...
Improvements in devices and techniques used to provide life support for patients at intensive car... more Improvements in devices and techniques used to provide life support for patients at intensive care units have reduced patient mortality. Increases in the number of survivors from a critical illness have brought long-term complications experienced during the post-intensive care period into question. The term postintensive care syndrome (PICS) is defined as a new and deteriorating disorder in the cognitive, mental, and physical health status experienced by the survivor after intensive care unit discharge that might continue for months or even years. Opioid and sedation exposure, the severity of illnesses and injuries, dense life support interventions, length of stay in the intensive care unit, and social isolation constitute risk factors for PICS in children. These factors cause the child to experience deterioration in physical, cognitive, and psychological health domains. Such deteriorations occur on various levels and have negative effects on quality of life. The purpose of this article is to raise awareness and help pediatric nurses to develop an understanding of the condition. Increasing awareness by pediatric nurses about the magnitude and effects of complications after discharge from the intensive care unit will be the first step to protect survivors from new problems, to provide assistance for ongoing problems, and to develop follow-up strategies. PICS-related morbidities affect the majority of children discharged from PICUs. We need to understand the scope of those morbidities and develop efficient nursing interventions accordingly. It is time to expand our goal for critical and noncritical care from life-saving into improvement of functional health status and quality of life.
Journal for specialists in pediatric nursing : JSPN, 2018
The purpose of this study was to determine transition readiness of adolescents with chronic heart... more The purpose of this study was to determine transition readiness of adolescents with chronic heart disease to adult care. The sample of the study comprised 113 adolescents between the ages 12 and 18 years with chronic heart disease. Transition readiness was assessed by the Transition-Q self-administered tool. The Transition-Q mean score was 63.0 (range = 31-92). The self-management skills of the adolescents increased significantly in direct proportion to their ages. Most of the adolescents had a lack of confidence about medication management and communicating with healthcare providers. No significant difference was detected between boys and girls in terms of total and individual items' scores. Transition readiness should be assessed to understand transitional requirements of adolescents with chronic heart disease and to plan appropriate nursing interventions accordingly.
Background: As delivering care is an inherent part of becoming parents, providing high level care... more Background: As delivering care is an inherent part of becoming parents, providing high level care to the child with health problems might be a burden for the caregivers by affecting their physical and mental health. The best way to understand the negative effects of caring process of the children with a chronic disease like asthma is to inquire caregiver burden. Aim: This review aimed to analyze the effects of caregiver burden of parents who are primarily responsible for the caring of children with asthma. Methods: PubMed, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Ovid, Cochrane Library and the Web of Science databases were searched for the studies published between 2000-2015. Key search terms used were "caregiver", "caregiving", "burden", "pediatric asthma", "parent". The quality evaluation of the studies were performed by independent reviewer utilizing Joanna Briggs Institute Critical Appraisal Checklists'. Results: Twenty two studies in total were scanned for this reviewed and 81.0% of them had a descriptive design. In 82.3% of them quality of life were measured in order to assess the caregiver burden outcomes. Other measurements to assess the caregiver burden were loss of work day, stress level and asthma management practices. Conclusion: It is absolutely crucial to determine caregiver burden risks and protective factors since wellness level of caregivers affect the asthma management practices. This review is to emphasise the lack of interventional study results about negative effects of caregiver burden and the factors influencing the burden at childhood asthma even if some studies on caregiver burden and related factors exist. For future studies, researchers should focus on testing some interventions lessening the burden of caregivers and increasing their life-qualities.
Asthma - From Childhood Asthma to ACOS Phenotypes, 2016
Asthma is one of the most prevalent chronic diseases especially among children so that it continu... more Asthma is one of the most prevalent chronic diseases especially among children so that it continues to be a public health problem. Even though genetics is an important factor for asthma, dramatic increase of the asthma recently is related with environmental triggers and lifestyle factors. Understanding of the interaction of multiple factors causing asthma is absolutely necessary for the planning interventions strategies. Exposure to allergens is a key factor for asthma morbidity. Environmental exposure leads allergen sensitization for genetically predisposed individuals and persisting of exposure is a risk element for asthma and other allergic diseases as well. Evidences suggest that environmental triggers avoidance and control interventions preclude asthma attacks, decrease the frequency of symptoms, and the need for drugs. Thus, environmental control should be focused in the management of asthma. Identifying and controlling of indoor and outdoor environmental triggers is the cornerstone for a successful asthma management. Figuring out the reasoning factors and developing primary preventive precautions are necessary to decrease asthma development frequency throughout the world.
Preschool is an important period for the development of healthy lifestyle behaviors. Parents have... more Preschool is an important period for the development of healthy lifestyle behaviors. Parents have a great influence upon a child developing healthy lifestyle behaviors. The purpose of this study was to determine the self-efficacy perceptions of parents related to their preschool children's healthy eating and physical activity behaviors. This study was conducted with a research population of 425 parents of 3- to 6-year-old children. The data collection tools included Demographic Information Form, and The Parental Self-efficacy Questionnaire (PSQ). Also, the weight and height of the children and their parents were measured. There was a positive correlation in parental self-efficacy score between parents' educational status and economic status and there was a significant negative correlation between children's body mass index and parental self-efficacy scores. The understanding of the effect of parental self-efficacy perception in the development of preschool children's healthy eating and physical activity behaviors is one of the first important steps in effective health promotion interventions.
Results: From 2,644 citations identified through electronic search, ten studies met the inclusion... more Results: From 2,644 citations identified through electronic search, ten studies met the inclusion criteria. According to the studies mode of delivery influences oral microbial density, oral microbial profile and the timing of oral colonization by cariogenic microbiota. However, there are no consistent results concerning either the prevalence of children harboring cariogenic microbiota or the prevalence of early childhood caries by mode of delivery. Conclusion: Mode of delivery influences early oral colonization. However, it seems that other determinants rather than mode of delivery could be major contributors to the development of early childhood caries.
Effective parenting is vital for intellectual, physical, social, and emotional development of a c... more Effective parenting is vital for intellectual, physical, social, and emotional development of a child. This study examined the differences between the parenting dimensions of deaf children and healthy ones. The sample of the study consisted of 292 children and their parents (146 of them deaf children and 146 of them healthy ones). Dimensions of parenting (warmth, rejection, structure, chaos, autonomy, and coercion) were measured using the Parent as Social Context Questionnaire. The mean scores of the positive parenting dimensions of warmth and autonomy of deaf children were significantly lower; however, the mean scores of the negative dimensions of chaos and coercion of deaf children were significantly higher than those of healthy ones. Deaf children can become successful adults with the help of their parents. Our results regarding parenting dimensions will be a guide for future nursing interventions planned to develop the relationships between deaf children and their parents.
In modern nursing, nurses seek for different ways to express their knowledge and qualifications. ... more In modern nursing, nurses seek for different ways to express their knowledge and qualifications. The most important one of those ways is coaching. In coaching programs, nurses play an active role in the solving of health problems and development of health care system. According to some studies, this kind of programs/interventions resulted positive outcomes. Coaching, that is implemented in all fields of nursing such as pediatric nursing, comes out with positive outcomes. Coaching programs in pediatric nursing deal mostly with the management of chronic diseases. The purpose of this brief paper was to emphasize the successful results of coaching applications also to make the readers consider the use of coaching programs in different fields of pediatrics.
International journal of nursing knowledge, Jan 30, 2015
This study tested the efficacy of a nurse-led discharge planning program for childhood asthma man... more This study tested the efficacy of a nurse-led discharge planning program for childhood asthma management, based on transition theory. A quasi-experimental design was used. The sample comprised 120 children with asthma and their parents (intervention group n = 60, control group n = 60). The asthma management self-efficacy perception level of parents in the intervention group increased significantly and the number of triggers their children were exposed to at home was reduced by 60.8%. The rates of admission to emergency departments and unscheduled outpatient visits were significantly lower in the intervention group compared with the control group. Transition theory-based nursing interventions can provide successful outcomes on childhood asthma management. Transition theory-based discharge planning program can guide nursing interventions to standardize care of the child with asthma. Combining care at home with hospital care strengthens ongoing qualified asthma management.
İşitme engelli çocukların yaşam kalitesinin değerlendirilmesi ve sağlıklı çocuklarla karşılaştırı... more İşitme engelli çocukların yaşam kalitesinin değerlendirilmesi ve sağlıklı çocuklarla karşılaştırılması amacıyla tanımlayıcı olarak planlanan bu araştırmaya, 8-12 yaş arası 68 işitme engelli ve 68 sağlıklı çocuk olmak üzere toplam 136 çocuk katılmıştır. Araştırmanın verileri, Kid-KINDL yaşam kalitesi ölçeği ve çocuk-aile bilgi formu ile toplanmıştır. Araştırmada, işitme engelli çocukların toplam yaşam kalitesi puanı 68.5, kontrol grubundaki çocukların ise 78.9 olarak bulunmuştur ve bu sonuç istatistiksel olarak anlamlı farklılık göstermektedir (p<0.05). Yaşam kalitesi ölçeğinin alt boyutlarının karşılaştırılmasında, işitme engelli çocuklar duygusal iyilik, özsaygı, aile ve okul alt boyutlarından istatistiksel olarak anlamlı düzeyde düşük puan almışlardır (p<0.05). Araştırma sonuçları, ileri derecede işitme engelinin çocuğun yaşam kalitesini etkilediğini ortaya koymaktadır. Çocuğun yaşamın her alanında güçlendirilmesine yönelik okul ve aile arasında işbirliğinin sağlanması ve çocuğun bağımsız olması yönünde destekleyici yaklaşımların benimsenmesi yaşam kalitesinin arttırılmasına önemli katkı sağlayacaktır.
Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine perceptions of children and parents regarding shared res... more The purpose of this study was to examine perceptions of children and parents regarding shared responsibilities for asthma management. The study included 72 children with asthma who were between the ages of 7 and 12 years and their parents. Asthma management responsibilities were assessed by the &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;Asthma Responsibility Questionnaire.&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot; Disagreements occurred between parents and children on assuming responsibility. Children reported higher asthma management responsibility scores than reported by parents for them. It is important that nurses provide education and counseling to both children and their families to ensure that children take responsibility for disease management.
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of parenting styles and academic self-efficac... more The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of parenting styles and academic self-efficacy on emotional eating behaviours within a sample of adolescents. The sample of this cross-sectionally designed study consisted of 584 adolescents between the ages of 12–17 years. In order to collect necessary data, the Emotional Eating Scale for Child and Adolescent, the Parenting Style Scale and Academic Self-efficacy Scale were utilized. In this sample, Emotional Eating Scale’s total score of girls was higher than boys, and emotional eating was not related to body mass index. Parenting styles and academic self-efficacy predicted 34% of the variants seen in emotional eating behaviours of adolescents. While a positive relation existed between emotional eating and negligent parenting style, a negative significant relation occurred between permissive and democratic type of parenting styles and emotional eating. In addition, emotional eating behaviours decreased, whereas academic self-effic...
Improvements in devices and techniques used to provide life support for patients at intensive car... more Improvements in devices and techniques used to provide life support for patients at intensive care units have reduced patient mortality. Increases in the number of survivors from a critical illness have brought long-term complications experienced during the post-intensive care period into question. The term postintensive care syndrome (PICS) is defined as a new and deteriorating disorder in the cognitive, mental, and physical health status experienced by the survivor after intensive care unit discharge that might continue for months or even years. Opioid and sedation exposure, the severity of illnesses and injuries, dense life support interventions, length of stay in the intensive care unit, and social isolation constitute risk factors for PICS in children. These factors cause the child to experience deterioration in physical, cognitive, and psychological health domains. Such deteriorations occur on various levels and have negative effects on quality of life. The purpose of this article is to raise awareness and help pediatric nurses to develop an understanding of the condition. Increasing awareness by pediatric nurses about the magnitude and effects of complications after discharge from the intensive care unit will be the first step to protect survivors from new problems, to provide assistance for ongoing problems, and to develop follow-up strategies. PICS-related morbidities affect the majority of children discharged from PICUs. We need to understand the scope of those morbidities and develop efficient nursing interventions accordingly. It is time to expand our goal for critical and noncritical care from life-saving into improvement of functional health status and quality of life.
Journal for specialists in pediatric nursing : JSPN, 2018
The purpose of this study was to determine transition readiness of adolescents with chronic heart... more The purpose of this study was to determine transition readiness of adolescents with chronic heart disease to adult care. The sample of the study comprised 113 adolescents between the ages 12 and 18 years with chronic heart disease. Transition readiness was assessed by the Transition-Q self-administered tool. The Transition-Q mean score was 63.0 (range = 31-92). The self-management skills of the adolescents increased significantly in direct proportion to their ages. Most of the adolescents had a lack of confidence about medication management and communicating with healthcare providers. No significant difference was detected between boys and girls in terms of total and individual items' scores. Transition readiness should be assessed to understand transitional requirements of adolescents with chronic heart disease and to plan appropriate nursing interventions accordingly.
Background: As delivering care is an inherent part of becoming parents, providing high level care... more Background: As delivering care is an inherent part of becoming parents, providing high level care to the child with health problems might be a burden for the caregivers by affecting their physical and mental health. The best way to understand the negative effects of caring process of the children with a chronic disease like asthma is to inquire caregiver burden. Aim: This review aimed to analyze the effects of caregiver burden of parents who are primarily responsible for the caring of children with asthma. Methods: PubMed, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Ovid, Cochrane Library and the Web of Science databases were searched for the studies published between 2000-2015. Key search terms used were "caregiver", "caregiving", "burden", "pediatric asthma", "parent". The quality evaluation of the studies were performed by independent reviewer utilizing Joanna Briggs Institute Critical Appraisal Checklists'. Results: Twenty two studies in total were scanned for this reviewed and 81.0% of them had a descriptive design. In 82.3% of them quality of life were measured in order to assess the caregiver burden outcomes. Other measurements to assess the caregiver burden were loss of work day, stress level and asthma management practices. Conclusion: It is absolutely crucial to determine caregiver burden risks and protective factors since wellness level of caregivers affect the asthma management practices. This review is to emphasise the lack of interventional study results about negative effects of caregiver burden and the factors influencing the burden at childhood asthma even if some studies on caregiver burden and related factors exist. For future studies, researchers should focus on testing some interventions lessening the burden of caregivers and increasing their life-qualities.
Asthma - From Childhood Asthma to ACOS Phenotypes, 2016
Asthma is one of the most prevalent chronic diseases especially among children so that it continu... more Asthma is one of the most prevalent chronic diseases especially among children so that it continues to be a public health problem. Even though genetics is an important factor for asthma, dramatic increase of the asthma recently is related with environmental triggers and lifestyle factors. Understanding of the interaction of multiple factors causing asthma is absolutely necessary for the planning interventions strategies. Exposure to allergens is a key factor for asthma morbidity. Environmental exposure leads allergen sensitization for genetically predisposed individuals and persisting of exposure is a risk element for asthma and other allergic diseases as well. Evidences suggest that environmental triggers avoidance and control interventions preclude asthma attacks, decrease the frequency of symptoms, and the need for drugs. Thus, environmental control should be focused in the management of asthma. Identifying and controlling of indoor and outdoor environmental triggers is the cornerstone for a successful asthma management. Figuring out the reasoning factors and developing primary preventive precautions are necessary to decrease asthma development frequency throughout the world.
Preschool is an important period for the development of healthy lifestyle behaviors. Parents have... more Preschool is an important period for the development of healthy lifestyle behaviors. Parents have a great influence upon a child developing healthy lifestyle behaviors. The purpose of this study was to determine the self-efficacy perceptions of parents related to their preschool children&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#39;s healthy eating and physical activity behaviors. This study was conducted with a research population of 425 parents of 3- to 6-year-old children. The data collection tools included Demographic Information Form, and The Parental Self-efficacy Questionnaire (PSQ). Also, the weight and height of the children and their parents were measured. There was a positive correlation in parental self-efficacy score between parents&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#39; educational status and economic status and there was a significant negative correlation between children&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#39;s body mass index and parental self-efficacy scores. The understanding of the effect of parental self-efficacy perception in the development of preschool children&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#39;s healthy eating and physical activity behaviors is one of the first important steps in effective health promotion interventions.
Results: From 2,644 citations identified through electronic search, ten studies met the inclusion... more Results: From 2,644 citations identified through electronic search, ten studies met the inclusion criteria. According to the studies mode of delivery influences oral microbial density, oral microbial profile and the timing of oral colonization by cariogenic microbiota. However, there are no consistent results concerning either the prevalence of children harboring cariogenic microbiota or the prevalence of early childhood caries by mode of delivery. Conclusion: Mode of delivery influences early oral colonization. However, it seems that other determinants rather than mode of delivery could be major contributors to the development of early childhood caries.
Effective parenting is vital for intellectual, physical, social, and emotional development of a c... more Effective parenting is vital for intellectual, physical, social, and emotional development of a child. This study examined the differences between the parenting dimensions of deaf children and healthy ones. The sample of the study consisted of 292 children and their parents (146 of them deaf children and 146 of them healthy ones). Dimensions of parenting (warmth, rejection, structure, chaos, autonomy, and coercion) were measured using the Parent as Social Context Questionnaire. The mean scores of the positive parenting dimensions of warmth and autonomy of deaf children were significantly lower; however, the mean scores of the negative dimensions of chaos and coercion of deaf children were significantly higher than those of healthy ones. Deaf children can become successful adults with the help of their parents. Our results regarding parenting dimensions will be a guide for future nursing interventions planned to develop the relationships between deaf children and their parents.
In modern nursing, nurses seek for different ways to express their knowledge and qualifications. ... more In modern nursing, nurses seek for different ways to express their knowledge and qualifications. The most important one of those ways is coaching. In coaching programs, nurses play an active role in the solving of health problems and development of health care system. According to some studies, this kind of programs/interventions resulted positive outcomes. Coaching, that is implemented in all fields of nursing such as pediatric nursing, comes out with positive outcomes. Coaching programs in pediatric nursing deal mostly with the management of chronic diseases. The purpose of this brief paper was to emphasize the successful results of coaching applications also to make the readers consider the use of coaching programs in different fields of pediatrics.
International journal of nursing knowledge, Jan 30, 2015
This study tested the efficacy of a nurse-led discharge planning program for childhood asthma man... more This study tested the efficacy of a nurse-led discharge planning program for childhood asthma management, based on transition theory. A quasi-experimental design was used. The sample comprised 120 children with asthma and their parents (intervention group n = 60, control group n = 60). The asthma management self-efficacy perception level of parents in the intervention group increased significantly and the number of triggers their children were exposed to at home was reduced by 60.8%. The rates of admission to emergency departments and unscheduled outpatient visits were significantly lower in the intervention group compared with the control group. Transition theory-based nursing interventions can provide successful outcomes on childhood asthma management. Transition theory-based discharge planning program can guide nursing interventions to standardize care of the child with asthma. Combining care at home with hospital care strengthens ongoing qualified asthma management.
İşitme engelli çocukların yaşam kalitesinin değerlendirilmesi ve sağlıklı çocuklarla karşılaştırı... more İşitme engelli çocukların yaşam kalitesinin değerlendirilmesi ve sağlıklı çocuklarla karşılaştırılması amacıyla tanımlayıcı olarak planlanan bu araştırmaya, 8-12 yaş arası 68 işitme engelli ve 68 sağlıklı çocuk olmak üzere toplam 136 çocuk katılmıştır. Araştırmanın verileri, Kid-KINDL yaşam kalitesi ölçeği ve çocuk-aile bilgi formu ile toplanmıştır. Araştırmada, işitme engelli çocukların toplam yaşam kalitesi puanı 68.5, kontrol grubundaki çocukların ise 78.9 olarak bulunmuştur ve bu sonuç istatistiksel olarak anlamlı farklılık göstermektedir (p<0.05). Yaşam kalitesi ölçeğinin alt boyutlarının karşılaştırılmasında, işitme engelli çocuklar duygusal iyilik, özsaygı, aile ve okul alt boyutlarından istatistiksel olarak anlamlı düzeyde düşük puan almışlardır (p<0.05). Araştırma sonuçları, ileri derecede işitme engelinin çocuğun yaşam kalitesini etkilediğini ortaya koymaktadır. Çocuğun yaşamın her alanında güçlendirilmesine yönelik okul ve aile arasında işbirliğinin sağlanması ve çocuğun bağımsız olması yönünde destekleyici yaklaşımların benimsenmesi yaşam kalitesinin arttırılmasına önemli katkı sağlayacaktır.
Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine perceptions of children and parents regarding shared res... more The purpose of this study was to examine perceptions of children and parents regarding shared responsibilities for asthma management. The study included 72 children with asthma who were between the ages of 7 and 12 years and their parents. Asthma management responsibilities were assessed by the &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;Asthma Responsibility Questionnaire.&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot; Disagreements occurred between parents and children on assuming responsibility. Children reported higher asthma management responsibility scores than reported by parents for them. It is important that nurses provide education and counseling to both children and their families to ensure that children take responsibility for disease management.
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