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This study examined the relationships among scabies fear, self-protection awareness and protection behaviors, and identified predictors of communicable disease awareness and protection behaviors among university students. A cross-sectional study was conducted with 680 female students residing in a dormitory. Data were collected between December 2024 and February 2025 using a Personal Information Form, the Scabies Fear Scale, and the Communicable Disease Risk Awareness and Protection Scale. Data were analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics 31 and PROCESS macro (Model 4). Hierarchical regression analysis indicated that age was a significant negative predictor, whereas higher economic status and maternal education were positive predictors of communicable disease awareness and protection behaviors. The inclusion of the subscale dimensions of the Scabies Fear Scale in Model 2 significantly increased the explained variance (ΔR²=0.05, p<0.001), and the addition of scabies knowledge further improved the model (ΔR²=0.01, p<0.01), with the final model explaining 12.2% of the variance. Mediation analysis indicated a significant indirect effect of scabies fear on protection behaviors through self-protection awareness. While the total effect of scabies fear on protection behaviors was significant (B=0.146, p=0.004), the direct effect became non-significant after including the mediator (B=0.022, p=0.517). The indirect effect was significant (B=0.124, 95%CI [0.041, 0.207]). These findings highlight the potential role of self-protection awareness in the association between emotional responses and protection behaviors and suggest that awareness-based interventions may represent a useful approach for promoting communicable disease prevention.

Purpose: Caffeine is widely used by nurses to manage fatigue and work demands; however, little is known about its relationship with psychological resilience. This study examined the association between caffeine use disorder and psychological resilience among nurses and identified factors associated with caffeine use disorder.Methods:This cross-sectional study included 364 nurses working in a public hospital in Türkiye. Data were collected using the Caffeine Use Disorder Questionnaire (CUDQ) and the Resilience Scale for Adults (RSA). Descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation, multiple linear regression, and hierarchical linear regression analyses were performed.Results:Caffeine use disorder was negatively correlated with overall psychological resilience (r = −0.173, p < 0.001) and several resilience dimensions (r = −0.119 to −0.159, p < 0.05). Younger age (β = −0.204, p < 0.001), female gender (β = −0.158, p = 0.002), smoking (β = −0.199, p < 0.001), lack of regular exercise (β = −0.116, p = 0.024), and lower psychological resilience (β = −0.178, p < 0.001) were independently associated with higher caffeine use disorder scores. Psychological resilience explained an additional 3.0% of the variance in caffeine use disorder scores beyond sociodemographic, occupational, and lifestyle characteristics (ΔR² = 0.030, p < 0.001).Conclusion: Higher psychological resilience was associated with lower caffeine use disorder among nurses, independent of sociodemographic, occupational, and lifestyle characteristics. The potential role of resilience-focused interventions in relation to problematic caffeine use and well-being warrants further investigation.

Aims: To examine the association between compassion fatigue and spiritual care competence amongst palliative care nurses, investigate the mediating role of palliative care quality and determine the moderating effect of job satisfaction. Background: Palliative care nurses face intense emotional demands and end‐of‐life stressors, increasing their risk of compassion fatigue and potentially affecting care delivery. Spiritual care competence is central to holistic palliative nursing; however, its association with compassion fatigue and the organisational factors shaping this relationship remain unclear. Design: A cross‐sectional, correlational study. Methods: Using a convenience sampling approach, 141 nurses working in palliative care units across hospitals in different regions of Türkiye were recruited. Data were collected between April and August 2024 via an online questionnaire including demographic variables and validated instruments measuring compassion fatigue, palliative care quality, spiritual care competence and job satisfaction. Data were analysed using SPSS and PROCESS macro. Results: The mean spiritual care competence score was 107.9 ± 14.7. Compassion fatigue was negatively associated with palliative care quality and spiritual care competence, whereas palliative care quality was positively associated with spiritual care competence. Mediation analysis indicated a significant indirect association between compassion fatigue and spiritual care competence through palliative care quality. Moderated mediation analysis indicated that this indirect effect was significant only amongst nurses reporting higher job satisfaction. Conclusions: Compassion fatigue was negatively associated with palliative care nurses' spiritual care competence. Mediation analysis suggested that this association was statistically explained by palliative care quality, whilst job satisfaction moderated the relationship between compassion fatigue and care quality. Relevance to Clinical Practise: Addressing compassion fatigue as a critical occupational risk in palliative care nursing is essential. Organisational strategies that enhance job satisfaction and support high‐quality care delivery may help sustain nurses' spiritual care competence and promote high‐quality palliative nursing practise. Patient or Public Contribution: No patients or members of the public were involved in this study. Palliative care nurses participated by completing online questionnaires. Reporting Method: This cross‐sectional study was reported in accordance with the STROBE Statement.

Objective: Dysmenorrhea is an important reproductive health problem with biopsychosocial effects in adolescents. The aim of this study is to determine the frequency of dysmenorrhea in adolescents, affecting factors, and dysmenorrhea self-care experiences. Methods: This study used a cross-sectional design. Data were collected from students (n=1160) enrolled in seven high schools in a province in Türkiye. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, chi-square, one-way analysis of variance, t-test, Mann-Whitney U, Kruskal-Wallis test, and multiple logistic regression tests. Results: In this study, the prevalence of dysmenorrhea was determined as 89.7%. It was determined that dysmenorrhea was affected by age (β = 1.482), stress in life (β = 1.520), menstrual cycle (β = 2.044), menarche attitude (β = 1.598), drug use (β = 2.854) and family dysmenorrhea (β = 2.943). Conclusion: It is recommended that reproductive health and menstruation education begin before adolescence and that health programs be updated to include dysmenorrhea self-care under the title of reproductive health. In addition, it is recommended that interventions be made regarding stress, drug use, and negative attitudes towards menarche, which have modifiable properties that have the potential to affect dysmenorrhea and self-care behaviors.

Aim: Digital game addiction is a significant public health problem, having a dramatic increase among adolescents. This study was designed to determine adolescents' perceived parental attitudes and digital game addiction levels and to evaluate the predictive factors of digital game addiction. Material and Methods: The study used a cross-sectional design. The population consisted of high school students in a city in Turkey (N= 680). Data were collected via a Personal Information Form, the Parental Attitude Scale, and the Digital Game Addiction Scale. Multiple regression were used for data analysis. Results: Of the participants, 25.6% were found to have digital game addiction. It was determined that playing digital games (β=0.261), school absenteeism due to playing digital games (β=0.259), earning money from digital games (β=0.179), sibling's digital game playing status (β=0.073), playing digital games more than 2 hours a day (β=0.221), protective/demanding parental attitude (β=0.088) and authoritarian parental attitude (β=0.151) significantly affected digital game addiction. However, it was found that age, gender, grade point average, class level, democratic parental attitude, having own computer, parents' digital game playing status and daily time spent on social media did not significantly affect digital game addiction. Conclusions: Technology restriction or freedom is not a practical approach to decreasing digital game addiction among adolescents. It is recommended to develop studies to increase the digital competence and digital literacy levels of adolescents. Implication for nursing practice/management or policy: School health nurses should provide education and counselling and plan strategies for the prevention of digital game addiction in schools.

Aim: This study was designed to determine the internet addiction and health-promoting behavior levels of adolescents and evaluate the factors affecting these variables. Material and Methods: A cross-sectional design was used in the study, which included students at a high school located in a city in Turkey (N= 645). Data were collected using a Personal Information Form, the Internet Addiction Scale for Adolescents, and the Adolescent Health Promotion Scale-Short Form. Results: The mean Internet Addiction Scale for Adolescents score of the participants was 20.98±6.75, while their mean Adolescent Health Promotion Scale-Short Form score was 69.76±13.34. It was found that daily time spent on the internet, sleep deprivation due to time spent on the internet, absenteeism from school due to time spent on the internet, connecting to the internet instead of participating in social activities, arguments with family due to time spent on the internet, experiencing deprivation when unable to connect to the internet, and non-health-promoting behaviors significantly increased internet addiction levels. Conclusion: It was determined that as the time spent on the internet by the participants and their internet addiction levels increased, their health-promoting behaviors decreased. Increasing internet use among adolescents carries the risk of raising internet addiction in the future and reducing health-promoting behaviors accordingly.

Objective: Dysmenorrhea is a common health problem that negatively affects daily life and academic skills when not managed well. This study was conducted to examine the Turkish validity and reliability of the Adolescent Dysmenorrhea Self-Care Scale. Methods: This methodological study was conducted in 7 high schools in Bursa, Turkey. The research was carried out with 1041 high school students who met the participation criteria. The Adolescent Dysmenorrhea Self-Care Scale was adapted to Turkish by using translation-back translation method. The validity of the scale was evaluated with the content validity index, confirmatory factor analysis, similarity and discriminant validity coefficients and reliability, item-total correlation, internal consistency coefficient and test-retest analysis. Results: According to the evaluations of the 10 experts whose opinions were taken for the Content Validity, it is determined that each item scored above 3 (3.52-4.00), and the mean score was 3.92 ± 0.14 and the content validity index was .98. Cronbach’s alpha reliability coefficient was found α = .96. Confirmatory factor analysis fit indexes and similarity and discriminant validity coefficients showed that the scale has sufficient compatibility with the theoretical six-factor structure. Item total correlations of subdimensions were r = .20-.68 and Cronbach's alpha coefficients were .77-.65. Test-retest correlations of the Adolescent Dysmenorrhea Self-Care Scale and its subdimensions were found r = .87-.99. Conclusion: Turkish Adolescent Dysmenorrhea Self-Care Scale is a valid and reliable data collection tool consisting of 40 items and six subdimensions.

Akademisyen Yayınevi yöneticileri, yaklaşık 30 yıllık yayın tecrübesini, kendi tüzel kişiliklerine aktararak uzun zamandan beri, ticarî faaliyetlerini sürdürmektedir. Anılan süre içinde, başta sağlık ve sosyal bilimler, kültürel ve sanatsal konular dahil 1000 kitabı yayımlamanın gururu içindedir. Uluslararası yayınevi olmanın alt yapısını tamamlayan Akademisyen, Türkçe ve yabancı dillerde yayın yapmanın yanında, küresel bir marka yaratmanın peşindedir. Bilimsel ve düşünsel çalışmaların kalıcı belgeleri sayılan kitaplar, bilgi kayıt ortamı olarak yüzlerce yılın tanıklarıdır. Matbaanın icadıyla varoluşunu sağlam temellere oturtan kitabın geleceği, her ne kadar yeni buluşların yörüngesine taşınmış olsa da, daha uzun süre hayatımızda yer edineceği muhakkaktır. COVID-19 Pandemisinde Dezavantajlı Bir Grup: Yaşlılar Ayten DİNÇ COVID-19 Pandemisinde İş Sağlığı ve Güvenliği Burak METE Ferdi TANIR Göçün Kadın Ruh Sağlığı Üzerine Etkileri Burcu KORKUT Nergiz SEVİNÇ Bir Halk Sağlığı Önceliği: Demans Çiğdem SAMANCI TEKİN Vardiyalı Sistemde Çalışanlarda Gündüz Uykululuğu Enise SÜRÜCÜ Safiye ÖZVURMAZ Sağlık Okuryazarlığı Seyfi DURMAZ Enise SÜRÜCÜ Safiye ÖZVURMAZ Küresel Tehdit Koronavirüs Pandemisi (COVID-19): Türkiyedeki Mevcut Durum Ramazan KIRAÇ Adil AYDOĞDU Çocuklarda Çevresel Etki Değerlendirmesine Yaklaşım Tahsin Gökhan TELATAR

Akademisyen Yayınevi yöneticileri, yaklaşık 30 yıllık yayın tecrübesini, kendi tüzel kişiliklerine aktararak uzun zamandan beri, ticarî faaliyetlerini sürdürmektedir. Anılan süre içinde, başta sağlık ve sosyal bilimler, kültürel ve sanatsal konular dahil 2000 kitabı yayımlamanın gururu içindedir. Uluslararası yayınevi olmanın alt yapısını tamamlayan Akademisyen, Türkçe ve yabancı dillerde yayın yapmanın yanında, küresel bir marka yaratmanın peşindedir.Bilimsel ve düşünsel çalışmaların kalıcı belgeleri sayılan kitaplar, bilgi kayıt ortamı olarak yüzlerce yılın tanıklarıdır. Matbaanın icadıyla varoluşunu sağlam temellere oturtan kitabın geleceği, her ne kadar yeni buluşların yörüngesine taşınmış olsa da, daha uzun süre hayatımızda yer edineceği muhakkaktır.