Hale Turhan Damar

Evaluating the nursing academicians in Turkey in the scope of Web of Science: scientometrics of original articles

Scientometrics, bibliometrics, webometrics, and informetrics are specific research fields that cover statistical analyses of a particular research field which summarize the information related to topics handled during a particular time period; authors, citations and their demographic characteristics; network relationships among the authors. This study, which can be classified in both scientometrics and webometrics, aims at revealing the current situation and the performance of academicians working in the nursing field in Turkey through basic and advanced data analyses conducted on their published original articles in a Web of Science. The raw data including the details of the publications were first parsed into a novel database where the authors’ affiliations were stored with respect to the data obtained from the website of the Turkish Higher Education Council. Over the integrated database, particular tables were generated to show the summary of the academic and demographic distributions of the publications. Specific statistical tests were applied to reveal the relationships and differences. Furthermore, analyses were carried out within text mining on authors, titles, keywords, abstracts, and references in order to examine the contents and references of the articles included in the data set to reveal keyword densities, particular topics, and co-authorship and citation networks. One of the challenging part of this research was the dataset collection and cleansing process, because of the special letters of Turkish Language, e.g. ç, ş, ö, ü. This issue was resolved when the representation pattern of the letters were discovered and queries were executed with respect to those patterns. This study has provided meaningful findings to both the field of nursing the scientometrics, since it reveals the academic performance in a particular field and systematically presents the current situation by examining the relevant studies in an analytical perspective.

Scientometric overview of nursing research on pain management

php?article_id=3411#.WgKw4Wi0OUk. 16. Gupta R, Gupta BM, Bansal J, Kumar A. Scientometric Assessment of India’s Migraine Research Publications during 2006-2015. J Young Pharm. 2016;8(4):294-301. doi: 10.5530/jyp.2016.4.2. 17. Mendoza-Parra S. Coverage, universal access and equity in health: a characterization of scientific production in nursing, Rev. Latino-Am. Enfermagem. 2016;24:e2669. doi: 10.1590/1518-8345.1082.2669. 18. Estabrooks CA, Winther C, Derksen L. Mapping the field a bibliometric analysis of the research utilization literature in nursing. Nurs Res. [Internet]. 2004 [cited Sep 21, 2017];53(59):293-303. Available from: https:// www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15385865. 19. Allen MP, Jacobs SK, Levy JR. Mapping the literature of nursing:1996–2000.J Med Libr Assoc. [Internet]. 2006 [cited Aug 17, 2017];94(2):206-220. AvailableABSTRACT Objective: to analyse research articles on pain and nursing issues using bibliometric and scientometric methodologies. Method: articles in the Web of Science database containing pain and nurse and pain and nursing were analyzed using scientometric methods through data visualization techniques and advanced text analytics. Result: among the 107,559 research articles found in the field of nursing, 3,976 of them were written based on the keywords pain and nursing, and were considered in conformity with the scope of this study. Preliminary analyses indicated that the publications have increased through the years with minor fluctuations. Titles, keywords, and abstracts were analyzed through text analytics to reveal keyword clusters and topic structures. Studies on oncology and pain in the field of nursing have a relatively higher frequency. Conclusion: the results of the analyses revealed the characteristics of the current literature in a broad range of areas by considering the particular dimensions. Therefore, the findings may support present and future research in this field by shedding light on the networks, trends, and contents in the related literature.

Factors related to older patients' fear of falling during the first mobilization after total knee replacement and total hip replacement

ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to determine fear of falling in the first mobilization and affecting factors in older patients. The study had a descriptive and cross‐sectional design. Data were collected in Izmir, Turkey between February 2014 and March 2016. The sample included 204 older patients undergoing joint replacement surgery. Fifty‐seven‐point four percent and 42.6% of the patients had total hip and knee replacement respectively. 42.2% of the patients had a severe fear of falling when they were first mobilized. There was a statistically significant difference between fear of falling in the first mobilization and the mean pain severity. In addition, the difference between fear of falling and the mean anxiety level was statistically significant. Pain and anxiety are important factors contributing to fear of falling in mobilization. The results of the study can help develop multidimensional strategies for reducing fear of falling in older people after joint replacement.

Fall behaviors and risk factors among elderly patients with hip fractures

Abstract Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate fall preventive behaviors in elderly patients who suffered hip fractures as a result of falling.Methods: This descriptive and cross-sectional study was performed at a university hospital in Izmir, Turkey between January 2014 and December 2015. Data were collected using the Fall Behaviors Scale for Old People. This study was conducted with 103 patients who had a hip fracture caused by falling. Descriptive statistics, Mann Whitney U and Kruskal-Wallis tests were used.Results: There was a significant difference between age groups in this score (KW = 6.85, p = 0.03). The patients aged 85-96 years obtained significantly higher scores for the sub-scales of protective mobility (KW = 8.71, p = 0.01) and avoidance (KW = 6.03, p = 0.04) than patients in the other age groups. There was not a significant difference in fall prevention behaviors between the elderly with a history of a repeated falls and those without a repeated fall history.Conclusion: Although elderly people with hip fractures due to falling has highly protective behavior, they have fallen. Advanced age patient has showed more protective behavior for falling.