Türkiye’de internet bağımlılığı, internetin yaygın olarak kullanmaya başlanmasıyla ortaya çıkmıştır. Bu çalışmada, Türkiye’deki internet bağımlılık oranı, coğrafi bölge ve çalışılan gruplara göre bağımlılık oranlarının saptanması amaçlanmıştır. Dahil olma ve dışlanma kriterlerine göre toplam 71 adet çalışma ile meta-analiz yapılmıştır. Türkiye’de internet bağımlılık oranı %13 (%95 GA: 0.11; 0.14) olarak saptanmıştır. Bölgeler incelendiğinde; Ege ve İç Anadolu bölgesi %17, Karadeniz %14, Marmara %13, Akdeniz %11, Doğu Anadolu %5 ve Güneydoğu Anadolu %3 oranlarında internet bağımlılığı saptanmıştır. Çalışılan grup incelendiğinde; ortaokul %5, lise %9, ortaokul-lise %30, üniversite %13 oranlarında internet bağımlılığı saptanmıştır.

Objectives: Technology unfortunately even though making our life easier, causes a lot of psychological problems when it is not used reasonably. One of them is the inability to live without a smartphone: nomophobia. This meta-analysis study considered nomophobia in Turkey in terms of gender.Methods: Using “nomophobia”, “Nomophobia Scale “, “Nomophobia Questionnaire (NMP-Q)”, “NMP-Q”and “smartphone” keywords, 9 electronic bibliographic databases, reference lists of relevant studies, and searches of the internet were performed to identify articles related to the nomophobia scale. The inclusion criteria were studies that the nomophobia questionnaire (NMP-Q) utilized to Turkish people, published in English or Turkish, and report the questionnaire score by mean/standard deviation according to gender. The mean age and sample size ratio, which were thought to have an effect on heterogeneity, are analyzed by meta-regression.Results: A total of 3370 studies were located, with 10 meeting the inclusion criteria. It revealed that females are found to be more nomofobic than males according to Nomophobia Questionnaire (NMP-Q).Conclusions: Most of the studies discussed in this study were applied to student groups. Applying nomophobia studies to different sample groups is important in determining the prevalence of nomophobia in the population and taking precautions.

Journal of Clinical Research in Pediatric Endocrinology

Aims. In this study, we aim to unravel the relationship between coagulation parameters together with D‐dimer and the severity of coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) during hospitalization as well as hospitalization in the intensive care unit (ICU). Methods. This retrospective study was conducted in the Emergency Department (ED) of Pamukkale University Hospital (Denizli, Turkey) between March 1 and April 30, 2020. SARS‐CoV‐2 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests and laboratory tests, including international normalized ratio (INR), prothrombin time (PT), D‐dimer, and activated thromboplastin time (APTT), were requested from 289 people presenting to the ED with symptoms of upper respiratory tract infection (URTI), such as cough, fever, and sore throat. Results. While 110 patients turned out to be polymerase chain reaction (PCR) positive, 181 individuals were PCR negative. The mean D‐dimer level of the patient group was 147 ng/ml DDU (min: 9, max: 2948), and their mean PT level was found as 12.8 seconds (min: 10.3, max: 34.7). Besides, the mean APTT was 31.25 seconds (min: 19, max: 46.9), and the mean INR level was calculated as 1.09 (min: 0.88, max: 2.93). 35 of the patients were not hospitalized, while 43 were admitted to the Infectious Diseases, 20 to the Chest Diseases, and 12 to the ICU. Conclusions. It can be concluded from our findings that D‐dimer, PT, and INR levels remained elevated in the COVID‐19‐diagnosed patients, but these parameters were unable to discriminate accurately between the patients with positive and negative SARS‐CoV‐2 results. Our findings also suggest that coagulation parameters might occupy a critical role in documenting clinical severity in patients with COVID‐19 infection and requiring hospitalization.