Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of family medicine in the detection of pregnancies, the status of pregnant women being registered to family medicine, the time of first contact with the family physician, and the rate of monitoring by family physicians. Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out at the pregnant follow-up polyclinic of a university hospital. The pilot study of the study was conducted with 15 participants. Data of 139 participants were analyzed. Results: The median of pregnancy detection week was 5.00 (IQR:4.00-6.00). For the first blood test 23.7% (n=33) of the pregnant women had applied to the family physicians. It was determined that all pregnant women received prenatal care from healthcare workers within the first 14 weeks. The rate of pregnant women who received prenatal care from family medicine at any time of pregnancy was 89.9% (n=125). Conclusion: It is seen that family medicine is not used effectively enough for pregnancy detection. The fact that knowing family medicine by almost all of the individuals, and informing the community will increase the rate and quality of application to family medicine. Improvement of family medicine pregnancy diagnosis and follow-up rates can be ensured by giving the necessary importance to the 15-49 age group follow-up and with the applicability of the referral chain. Keywords: primary care, family practice, pregnancy, pregnancy test

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the factors that barrier exercise compliance in individuals receiving weight control counseling and to develop recommendations for increasing exercise compliance and continuity. Methods: This study was carried out as a cross-sectional study in Karadeniz Technical University Family Medicine outpatient clinic between April 2018- March 2019. A questionnaire was prepared by the researchers to question the sociodemographic characteristics of the participants as well as the factors that prevent exercise compliance/exercise continuity. The questionnaire was applied to the participants by face to face interview method. Data of 384 participants were analyzed. Results: The median of the participants was 29 (IQR:23.0-41.0) years and 78.6% of the participants were women. It was found that 92.7% (n = 356) of the participants did not exercise. When the causes that prevented exercise compliance/exercise continuity were questioned, laziness was the most frequent reason with 67.1%. Lack of adequate time (54.4%) and difficulty in maintaining exercise (50.0%) were detected as two other important causes. The percentage of people who chose the option that not to believe in the benefit of exercise was 1.1%. When the participants were asked to rank the first three among the reasons, laziness was the most common cause with 43.5%. Conclusions: We are detected that, almost all of the participants did not exercise. In this study, the most important reason of non-exercise was found to be laziness. Participants who did not believe in the benefit of exercise were very few (1.1%).This was promising in terms of suggesting that success could go to very high levels when community-oriented studies were combined with person-based programs. In this context, it will be beneficial to raise awareness of the positive effects of individuals on exercise and health and to provide motivation for increasing physical activity levels.

Obesity is commonly framed through biomedical risk, yet it is also lived through functional limitations, emotional burden, and socially mediated experience

Background: Childhood obesity is a major and growing public health challenge worldwide. Although parental misperception of children’s weight is well documented, how children perceive their parents’ body size and whether parental body size is associated with children’s expressed desire to be like the parent have received little attention. We examined children’s perception of parental body size and whether parental BMI was associated with their expressed desire to be like the parent in a primary care sample. Methods: This single-center, cross-sectional study included 229 parent–child pairs consecutively recruited from a family medicine outpatient clinic in Türkiye between January and March 2026. Children aged 4–8 years rated the accompanying parent’s body size and reported whether they wanted to be like that parent, while parents independently rated their own body size. The BMI-based Body Size Guide was used for all figure selections, and the classification derived from objectively measured parental BMI served as the primary reference. Agreement was evaluated using Cohen’s kappa coefficients, associations were examined using multivariable logistic regression, and the children’s spontaneous explanations were examined using qualitative content analysis. Results: Parents showed moderate weighted agreement with the BMI-derived classification (weighted κ = 0.536, 95% CI: 0.456–0.612; exact agreement: 59.4%), whereas children showed fair weighted agreement (weighted κ = 0.315, 95% CI: 0.231–0.392; exact agreement: 42.8%). After adjustment for child age, child sex, child weight status, parent sex, and parent age, parental overweight (aOR = 0.353, 95% CI: 0.170–0.733) and parental obesity (aOR = 0.133, 95% CI: 0.057–0.307) were associated with lower odds of the child reporting a desire to be like the parent. After adjustment for child age, child sex, parent sex, and parent age, parental overweight (aOR = 2.818, 95% CI: 1.101–7.211) and parental obesity (aOR = 4.774, 95% CI: 1.816–12.546) were associated with higher odds of child overweight/obesity. Among the 53 children who provided an explanation, responses referred to body size, weight, health, appearance, affection, and identification with the parent, illustrating the broad interpretation of the question. Conclusions: Children aged 4–8 years were able to rate parental body size, although their agreement with the BMI-derived classification was limited. Children’s expressed desire to be like the parent varied according to parental BMI; however, this broad question may reflect emotional, relational, behavioural, and appearance-related considerations rather than bodily resemblance alone. The open-ended responses provide context by showing that only some children spontaneously referred to body size or weight. These findings support further research using developmentally validated and stigma-sensitive measures to clarify how young children perceive parental body size and interpret questions about identification with a parent.