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Publication Metadata only The effect of Transition to Adulthood Training Program for mothers of young adults with intellectual disability on family quality of life and perceived stress level: a pilot randomized controlled study(Sage Publications Inc, 2024) Aydın, Ayfer; Umaç, Eyşan Hanzade; Erdem, İpek Bertan; Graduate School of Health Sciences; Koç Üniversitesi Engelli Çocuk ve Ailelerine Destek Merkezi (EÇADEM) / The Support Center for Disabled Children and their Families (EÇADEM)Families cannot easily identify and cope with the changing health problems and needs of children transitioning into adulthood. This pilot randomized controlled study aims to improve the family's quality of life and reduce mothers' perceived stress levels by implementing an educational program (Transition to Adulthood Training Program - TATP). A total of 33 mothers of children with intellectual disabilities were randomly assigned to the groups. Data were collected using the Personal Information Form, Beach Center Family Quality of Life (BCFQOL), and Perceived Stress Scale. The intervention group showed a significant increase in the BCFQOL mean score rather than the control group (p<.001). There was a significant decrease in the perceived stress scores of the mothers in the intervention group after the TATP training sessions (p<0.05). The TATP intervention not only increased the quality of family life for these mothers but also led to a reduction in their perceived stress levels.Publication Unknown Impact of a new gynecologic oncology hashtag during virtual-only ASCO Annual Meetings: an X (Twitter) social network analysis(JMIR Publications Inc., 2024) Bhandoria, Geetu; Uwins, Christina; Vidal-Alaball, Josep; Fuster-Casanovas, Aina; Ahmed, Wasim; Bilir, Esra; Graduate School of Health SciencesBackground: Official conference hashtags are commonly used to promote tweeting and social media engagement. The reach and impact of introducing a new hashtag during an oncology conference have yet to be studied. The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) conducts an annual global meeting, which was entirely virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021. Objective: This study aimed to assess the reach and impact (in the form of vertices and edges generated) and X (formerly Twitter) activity of the new hashtags #goASCO20 and #goASCO21 in the ASCO 2020 and 2021 virtual conferences. Methods: New hashtags (#goASCO20 and #goASCO21) were created for the ASCO virtual conferences in 2020 and 2021 to help focus gynecologic oncology discussion at the ASCO meetings. Data were retrieved using these hashtags (#goASCO20 for 2020 and #goASCO21 for 2021). A social network analysis was performed using the NodeXL software application. Results: The hashtags #goASCO20 and #goASCO21 had similar impacts on the social network. Analysis of the reach and impact of the individual hashtags found #goASCO20 to have 150 vertices and 2519 total edges and #goASCO20 to have 174 vertices and 2062 total edges. Mentions and tweets between 2020 and 2021 were also similar. The circles representing different users were spatially arranged in a more balanced way in 2021. Tweets using the #goASCO21 hashtag received significantly more responses than tweets using #goASCO20 (75 times in 2020 vs 360 times in 2021; z value=16.63 and P <.001). This indicates increased engagement in the subsequent year. Conclusions: Introducing a gynecologic oncology specialty-specific hashtag (#goASCO20 and #goASCO21) that is related but different from the official conference hashtag (#ASCO20 and #ASCO21) helped facilitate discussion on topics of interest to gynecologic oncologists during a virtual pan-oncology meeting. This impact was visible in the social network analysis.Publication Unknown Ultrasound curricula of student education in Europe: summary of the experience(Georg Thieme Verlag, 2020) Prosch, Helmut; Radzina, Maija; Dietrich, Christoph F.; Nielsen, Michael Bachmann; Baumann, Sven; Ewertsen, Caroline; Jenssen, Christian; Kosiak, Wojciech; Kratzer, Wolfgang; Lim, Adrian; Popescu, Alina; Mitkov, Vladimir; Schiavone, Cosima; Wohlin, Martin; Wüstner, Matthias; Cantisani, Vito; N/A; Kabaalioğlu, Adnan; Doctor; N/A; Koc University Hospital; N/ABackground: Despite the increasing role of ultrasound, structured ultrasound teaching is only slowly being integrated into the curricula of medical schools and universities all over Europe. Aim: To survey the current situation at European universities regarding the integration of ultrasound in student medical education and to report on models of student ultrasound training from selected European universities. Methods: A questionnaire survey focusing on the implementation of curricular ultrasound education was sent out to the 28 presidents of the national ultrasound societies of the European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (EFSUMB), who were asked to distribute the questionnaires to the medical universities of their countries. Results: Overall, 53 questionnaires were returned from 46 universities in 17 European countries. In most of the universities (40/46 universities, 87%), the theoretical background of ultrasound is taught. However, in only a minority of universities is ultrasound integrated in anatomy courses (8/46 universities, 17%) or basic science courses (16/46 universities, 35%). Practical skills in ultrasound are taught in 56% of the universities (26/46 universities) and tested in a practical exam in seven of the responding universities (15%). The number of hours in which ultrasound was taught ranged from one to 58 (mean, seven). The respondents reported that lack of time and limited faculty funding were major hurdles. Conclusion: According to our survey, only a minority of European universities has integrated ultrasound into the preclinical curriculum thus far. Future EFSUMB initiatives will continue to promote the introduction of ultrasound as an integrative part of the core curriculum of student medical education, and the preparation of proper teaching material.Publication Unknown Social competence in children with autism(Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2019) Yavuz, H. Melis; Korkmaz, Barış; Department of Psychology; Selçuk, Bilge; Faculty Member; Department of Psychology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 52913Objectives: This paper investigates the associations of social competence with cognitive representation and communication skills in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), by measuring these skills in an expansive way through assessing both mental and internal-state understanding, and verbal and non-verbal communication. Methods: The data were collected from 45 Turkish children (M-age=8.52 years, SD=3.05, min-max=3-14) with a diagnosis of ASD. Individual assessments were used to measure mental- and internal-state understanding. Teacher-rated scales were used to assess child's verbal and non-verbal communication skills, and social competence. Results: The results showed that social competence, cognitive representation, verbal and non-verbal communication skills were all significantly associated, but over and above cognitive representation skills and verbal communication, non-verbal communication had a salient role in adaptive social relationships of children with ASD. Conclusions: These findings have important applied implications for intervention studies and suggest that improvements of non-verbal communication skills in children with ASD might be important for increasing their positive social relations.Publication Unknown Child socialization goals of Turkish mothers: an investigation of education related within-culture variation(Türk Psikologlar Derneği, 2009) Çıtlak, Banu; Leyendecker, Birgit; Department of Psychology; N/A; Selçuk, Bilge; Gözkan, Ayfer Dost; Faculty Member; Master Student; Department of Psychology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 52913; 124621This study aimed to explore the long-term socialization goals of Turkish mothers from different educational backgrounds. The participants were low-educated (n = 20) and high-educated (n = 20) Turkish mothers whose ages ranged from 24 to 39 years. In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted to measure long-term socialization goals of mothers. Results indicated that, as predicted, low-educated mothers emphasized the importance of relatedness and obedience more than high-educated mothers; and high-educated mothers stressed autonomy and self-enhancement as desirable characteristics more than low-educated mothers did. The two groups of mothers also reported some common goals such as valuing lovingness, decency, and self-control in their children. Overall, the fi ndings pointed to the relative salience of constructs such as autonomy and relatedness in the socialization goals of Turkish mothers with high and low education levels. The fi ndings provided support for Kağıtçıbaşı’s Family Change Model, shedding light on the variations in family structure across various socio-cultural-economic contexts. It also upholds Kohn’s theory which proposes that occupation infl uences socialization goals of parents. / Bu çalışma, Türk annelerin uzun süreli çocuk sosyalleştirme hedefl erini (çocuklarının ileride sahip olmalarını istedikleri özelliklere ilişkin hedefl erini) eğitim durumlarına göre karşılaştırmayı amaçlamaktadır. Bu amaçla, yüksek düzeyde eğitimli (en az on üç yıl örgün eğitim kurumlarına devam etmiş) yirmi anne ve düşük düzeyde eğitimli (en fazla altı yıl eğitim almış) yirmi anne ile Sosyalleştirme Hedefl eri Envanteri kullanılarak görüşmeler yapılmıştır. Annelerin sosyalleştirme hedefl eri, Kendini Geliştirme, Davranışlarını Kontrol Etme, Topluma Uyum, Sevecenlik ve Uygun Davranma sınıfl andırmalarına göre karşılaştırılmıştır. Yapılan analizler, yüksek eğitimli annelerin düşük eğitimli gruba göre kendini geliştirme ile ilişkili hedefl eri daha fazla, uygun davranış göstermeye ilişkin hedefl eri ise daha az vurguladıklarını göstermiştir. Bununla birlikte, iki anne grubu arasında davranışları kontrol, topluma uyum, ve sevecenlik sınıfl andırmalarına ilişkin hedefl erde istatistiksel açıdan anlamlı bir fark bulunmamıştır. Çalışmanın sonuçları, Kağıtçıbaşı’nın Aile Değişim Modeli ve Kohn’un ebeveynin mesleki konumu ile çocuk yetiştirme tutumlarını ilişkilendiren kuramı bağlamında tartışılmıştır.Publication Unknown Transition to family practice in Turkey(Wiley, 2008) Yaman, Hakan; Department of Business Administration; Güneş, Evrim Didem; Faculty Member; Department of Business Administration; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 51391Introduction: Turkey's primary health care (PHC) system was established in the beginning of the 1960s and provides preventive and curative basic medical services to the population. This article describes the experience of the Turkish health system, as it tries to adapt to the European health system. It describes the current organization of primary health care and the family medicine model that is in the process of implementation and discusses implications of the transition for family physicians and the challenges faced in meeting the needs for health care staff. In Turkey a trend toward urbanization is evident and more staff positions in rural PHC centers are vacant. Shortages of physicians and an ineffective distribution of doctors are seen as a major problem. Family medicine gained popularity at the beginning of the 1990s, as a specialty with a 3-year postgraduate training program. Medical practitioners who are graduates of a 6-year medical training program and are already working in the PHC system are offered retraining courses. Better working conditions and higher salaries may be important incentives for medical practitioners to sign a contract with the social security institution of Turkey. Discussion: The lack of well-trained primary care staff is an ongoing challenge. Attempts to retrain medical practitioners to act as family physicians show promising results. Shortness of physician and health professionals and lack of time and resources in primary health care are problems to overcome during this process.Publication Unknown Gender inequality in schooling: the case of Turkey(Sage Publications Inc, 2006) Aytac, IA; Department of Sociology; Rankin, Bruce; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/ADrawing on recent research on education in developing countries, this article examines gender inequality in schooling in Turkey. Using a nationally representative sample of Turkish youths, it assesses the effects of macrostructure, family resources, and cultural attitudes and practices on primary and postprimary school attainment. The results show that while locality, family resources, and family structure and culture influence the education of both genders, girls' chances of postprimary schooling are greater if they live in metropolitan areas and in less patriarchal families. Birth-order comparisons indicate that older daughters are less likely to complete postprimary schooling than are their younger sisters. Girls' primary school attainment is facilitated by having other family members who help with child care. The findings are discussed in light of trends in Turkish society and their implications for future research.Publication Unknown What keeps teachers engaged during professional development? The role of interest development(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2023) Akcaoglu, Mete; Dogan, Selcuk; Department of Psychology; Özcan, Meryem Şeyda; Teaching Faculty; Department of Psychology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AInterest influences adults' and young learners' learning in formal and informal contexts. Although interest and interest development frameworks have been used in research on student-learning, they are not used in teacher-focused research, especially as "outcomes" of teacher professional development (PD) activities. In this study, we used interest development as the outcome of PD in computer science (CS) and investigated the factors that influenced teachers' (n = 5) interest development toward CS using various data sources and analysis methods. We found that interest development is (a) varied, (b) influenced by self-relation, knowledge, and affect, (c) associated with reengagement with PD activities, and (d) it can be captured using computational text analysis methods and online log data.Publication Unknown Social competence and temperament in children with chronic orthopaedic disability(Routledge Journals, Taylor and Francis Ltd, 2015) Department of Psychology; N/A; Selçuk, Bilge; Müren, H. Melis Yavuz; Faculty Member; PhD Student; Department of Psychology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 52913; N/AThe aim of the study was to investigate social competence in children with orthopaedic disability and its concurrent relations to child's temperament, health condition, and maternal warmth. Participants were 68 Turkish children (mean=5.94years) with chronic orthopaedic disability and their mothers coming from disadvantaged backgrounds. Mother ratings were used to measure social competence, temperament, general health condition, and parental warmth. The attending physician rated the severity of orthopaedic disability. Attentional focusing, emotional reactivity, and child's sex significantly predicted social competence. Age at first operation was slightly negatively associated with reactivity. The findings revealed the importance of emotional and attentional regulation for social functioning in children with orthopaedic disability, and pointed to the susceptibility of reactivity to environmental conditions. The study suggested that social functioning of youth with orthopaedic disability might benefit from temperament-based intervention and prevention programmes.Publication Unknown Childhood in modern Europe(Univ Victoria, 2020) N/A; Tutan, Sabiha Didar; Researcher; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities ; N/AN/A