OBJECTIVES This study aimed to compare sexual function and sexual response, attitude toward sexuality and relationships with sexual partners in women diagnosed with PCOS and healthy controls. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study included 73 women (aged 23-42 years) diagnosed with PCOS using the Rotterdam criteria and 45 healthy controls. All participants completed a questionnaire assessing socioepi...

Methods Individuals who underwent clinical genetic testing for Lynch syndrome at Dana Farber Cancer Institute were enrolled in a longitudinal questionnaire study eliciting information on perceived cancer risk, cancer worry, cancer screening and health behaviors prior to testing and after a clinical visit at which genetic test results were disclosed. Level of genetic test specific distress was a...

Materials and methods: A descriptive design was used in current study. The study was carried out at the hematology clinic of 2 university hospitals located in İstanbul. The convenience sample consisted of 150 spouses of patients who had hematological cancer. The data were collected through structured face-to-face interviews using a questionnaire form, the “Ways of Coping” Questionnaire, the Mul...

One of the most challenging problems encountered when analysing multidimensional datasets is overabundance of features. In order to remove irrelevant, redundant, and noisy information from the data, some feature selection algorithms are used. The two-level feature selection analysed method contains Wrapper and Filter based feature search and evaluation. The experiments were performed on a datab...