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PURPOSE: The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between subjective wellbeing and emotional eating in adolescents. METHODS: A total of 231 high school students completed a demographic questionnaire and two scales; the emotional eating scale adapted for use in children and adolescents and the adolescent subjective wellbeing scale. RESULTS: The data showed negative and very weak relationships between the unsettled emotional state subscale of the emotional eating scale and the positive emotional state subscale (-0.146), the satisfaction with life subscale (-0.143), and the adolescent subjective wellbeing total score (-0.146). Adolescents' body perceptions, their family types, family income levels, and other variables had an impact on their state of subjective wellbeing, and variables such as gender and their father's level of education had an effect on their emotional eating. CONCLUSIONS: Emotional eating in adolescence can become a barrier to an individual's assuming future roles and responsibilities. Due to these risks, it is important to identify and reinforce the factors that help adolescents adapt and improve their subjective wellbeing.
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Emotions , Personal Satisfaction , Adolescent , Child , Humans , Students/psychology , Surveys and Questionnaires , TurkeyABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: In this study, we examined the nutritional behaviours of secondary school children and the factors affecting their nutritional self-efficacy as well as the relationship between nutritional behaviours and nutritional self-efficacy. METHODS: We determined from the BMIs of the 462 students participating in the study in the Fethiye district of Mugla province that 48.5% were underweight, 46.5% were normal and 5% were overweight. RESULTS: The participating children's grade in school and their father's education affected their nutritional behaviours. We observed at the same time that the 'child's grade in school', 'father's education' and 'income level' affected the 'Nutritional Self-Efficacy Scale' mean score. A positive and significant relationship was found between the Nutritional Self-Efficacy Scale and Nutritional Behaviour Scale mean scores of the children participating in the study. CONCLUSIONS: We concluded that a useful recommendation for health professionals working in programmes aiming to improve children's eating habits would be to focus on initiatives that improve nutritional self-efficacy and nutritional behaviours.
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Feeding Behavior , Self Efficacy , Body Mass Index , Child , Health Behavior , Humans , OverweightABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: Premature infants hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit are routinely exposed to many painful procedures. Pain experienced during the neonatal period may lead to negative outcomes, especially in preterm neonates, hence pain in infants should be reduced. Kangaroo care and oral sucrose are some of the methods that can help reduce pain. AIM: This study aimed to compare the effects of kangaroo care and oral sucrose on pain relief in preterm infants during heel lancing. METHODS: Our study involved 64 infants. The infants were randomly divided into two groups using a randomized block design of drawing out slips from a thick, non-transparent envelope. There were 64 slips in this envelope (32 for kangaroo care and 32 for oral sucrose). Kangaroo care was given to the preterm infants in the first group and oral sucrose to those in the second group. In both groups, heart rate and oxygen saturation were measured and pain score was evaluated by two observers using the Premature Infant Pain Profile (PIPP) before, during, and 2 minutes after blood sampling by heel lancing. RESULTS: There was a statistically significant difference between the groups in favor of the kangaroo group in terms of change in the PIPP values after heel lancing. Kangaroo care is more effective than oral sucrose in pain relief during heel lancing in preterm infants. CONCLUSIONS: In addition to many benefits it offers to infants, kangaroo care can be used to reduce pain during painful procedures in premature infants.
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Infant, Premature , Kangaroo-Mother Care Method/standards , Pain Management/standards , Sucrose/pharmacology , Administration, Oral , Female , Humans , Infant, Newborn , Intensive Care Units, Neonatal/organization & administration , Kangaroo-Mother Care Method/methods , Kangaroo-Mother Care Method/statistics & numerical data , Male , Pain Management/methods , Pain Management/statistics & numerical data , Pain Measurement/methods , Phlebotomy/methods , Sucrose/therapeutic useABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: Childhood cancers are fatal diseases which cause intense stress and traumatic situations for the ones who experience those diseases. This kind of an emotionally hard life may create some hardships for developing self-concept. The aim of the study is to put forth the self-exposure of a school-age child by using plays. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Six play sessions had been carried out in June-August 2011. As a searching pattern, interpretive case study method was used. The research consisted of six children with cancer, aged between 9 and 12 years. The research was conducted in a public hospital in children oncology service. RESULTS: The assessment of data was realized in two stages. The first one was examining the data; the other stage was the content analysis that has been constructed after the play sessions as Nursing Intervention: Play Model. In the newly formed model, nine themes had been found: (a) expressing good memories, (b) control, (c) problem-solving ability, (d) relations, (e) aggressive behaviors, (f) regression, (g) good-bad, (h) trauma, and (i) anxiety. CONCLUSIONS: The self-concept of the school-age child needs to be supported. It has been submitted that the themes can be supportive for the prospective nursing models concerning child's self-exposure. It has been suggested that the themes produced by Nursing Intervention: Play Model can be used while planning, implementation, and assessment of the nursing care.
