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Artificial intelligence-generated diet plans for hypertension and dyslipidemia: Adherence and nutritional insights
(06/2025) Kenger, Emre Batuhan; Özlü Karahan, Tuğçe
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Posttraumatic stress disorder-related mental health problems and risk factors after an earthquake
(11/08/2025) Aker, Ahmet Tamer; Önder, Ece
Earthquakes can have a substantial impact on communities, leading to severe economic losses, structural damage, casualties, and displacement, as well as adverse psychological effects on survivors. Previous studies have highlighted a broad spectrum of adverse psychological effects following disasters, such as sleep disturbances, emotional distress, depression, suicidal thoughts, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Posttraumatic stress disorder is particularly common among disaster survivors. It is characterized by the emergence of specific symptoms following direct exposure (experiencing a traumatic event firsthand or witnessing it happen to others) or indirect exposure (learning about a traumatic event involving loved ones or repeatedly being exposed to distressing details of the event). Disasters, crises, and traumas are difficult life experiences that require individuals to seek support. It is crucial to identify key factors such as individuals' location, emotional state, and their specific needs during these times to provide effective assistance. Addressing these aspects is essential in preventing trauma from worsening or becoming more entrenched. Post-earthquake psychosocial support should include comprehensive, long-term, and sustainable interventions to improve the mental health of both individuals and society. The aim of this article is to evaluate PTSD and related mental health issues following earthquakes.
ChatGPT-4o for weight management: Comparison of different diet models
(16/07/2025) Özlü Karahan, Tuğçe; Kenger, Emre Batuhan
In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT have emerged as accessible and scalable platforms for generating dietary advice. While ChatGPT has demonstrated potential in providing general nutritional guidance, its capacity to create diet plans tailored to different weight categories and physical activity levels remains underexplored, particularly in comparison across popular dietary (ketogenic and intermittent fasting) models. This study aimed to evaluate the nutritional adequacy and variability of diet plans generated by ChatGPT-4o for weight management. ChatGPT-4o generated diet plans for 18 individuals (9 males, 9 females) representing overweight, class I, and class II obesity at varying physical activity levels. Fifty-four menus were created across three dietary models and analyzed for energy, macro-, and micronutrient content using the BeBiS nutritional analysis software. Diet variability was also assessed through repeated prompts over three different periods. The ketogenic diets produced by AI had significantly higher energy and saturated fat contents than other models (p < 0.05). Regardless of prompt, AI often produced low-carbohydrate, high-fat diets. The menus created by ChatGPT had significantly higher fat, saturated fat, and protein content but lower carbohydrate content compared to the dietitian menus (p < 0.05). Micronutrient analysis showed frequent inadequacy in calcium, potassium, and vitamin B1. Notably, menu content showed temporal inconsistencies, particularly in intermittent fasting and ketogenic diets. While ChatGPT-4o shows promise in generating basic dietary models, concerns remain about its nutritional precision, consistency, and safety. The results revealed the necessity of professional supervision in AI-assisted nutrition planning.
Negative emotion expression and emotion regulation in regulation focused psychotherapy for children (rfp-c) with externalizing and comorbid internalizing/externalizing problems
(İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, Lisansüstü Eğitim Enstitüsü, 17/06/2025) Eğrilmez, Duru
Emotion regulation refers to how children utilize various strategies to manage the intensity and duration of their emotions, as well as the way they process emotional experiences. Difficulties in emotion regulation have been linked to the development of externalizing problems in children leading to growing emphasis on therapeutic approaches that address these regulatory difficulties. Regulation Focused Psychotherapy for Children (RFP-C) is a time-limited psychodynamic treatment model developed for children aged 5 to 12 who exhibit externalizing problems. In RFP-C, externalizing behaviors are conceptualized as maladaptive defenses against unbearable emotions such as sadness, shame or guilt, resulting from impairments in implicit emotion regulation capacity. By systematically interpreting children’s defenses, the therapist aims to help the child increase emotional tolerance and find adaptive ways to express these unbearable feelings. While limited research has demonstrated the effectiveness of RFP-C in reducing externalizing symptoms and improving emotion regulation, there remains a lack of empirical studies investigating how affective processes evolve throughout therapy. The present study aimed to examine how children’s emotion regulation and negative emotion expression change over the course of RFP-C, using the Children’s Play Therapy Instrument. It was hypothesized that anger expression would decrease while sadness expression and emotion regulation would increase over the course of therapy. The study was conducted as part of a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) at Istanbul Bilgi University. The sample consisted of 34 school-aged children with externalizing and comorbid internalizing/externalizing problems. Three therapy sessions per child were coded for affect regulation and affect expression using the CPTI. Repeated measures ANOVAs revealed a significant increase in anger expression across sessions, while sadness expression and affect regulation remained stable. These findings suggest that increased anger expression may reflect a shift from defensive acting out to symbolic processing of aggression through play. The stability of sadness expression highlights the need for more sensitive tools to detect subtle emotional changes, while the absence of change in emotion regulation may reflect the non-linear nature of therapeutic progress and highlight the need for more frequent session-level assessments and fine-grained analytic methods to detect subtle changes over time.
Marginalised everywhere!: A study on the social integration experiences of queer individuals from Türkiye in Berlin, Germany
(İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, Lisansüstü Eğitim Enstitüsü, 26/06/2025) Dikmen, Durmuş
Since 2010, the increasingly authoritarian political climate in Türkiye has led to systematic human rights violations and further exclusion of queer individuals from the public sphere. This tendency intensified particularly after the 2013 Gezi Protests, resulting in a visible increase in queer migration from the country. However, the increasing migration to Germany cannot solve the structural and social challenges faced by Türkiyeli queer individuals, even though their numbers have risen, as the complex and multilayered conditions of the migration context continue to persist. In this framework, this research examines the migration trajectories of queer individuals who have relocated from Türkiye to Berlin, with a particular focus on the role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the process of social integration. Based on the intersectionality approach and the theory of social integration, this research explores how intersecting identity axes shape the experiences of queer migrants. Through qualitative research and semi-structured interviews, the research offers an empirical analysis of how NGOs contribute to the integration of Türkiyeli queer migrants in Berlin. The findings indicate that the fragility of NGO institutional structures, the broader political environment, and the migrants’ dependency on social service professionals emerge as key factors influencing integration processes. In conclusion, this research highlights both the facilitating and limiting dimensions of NGO involvement. It reveals how civil society actors, despite their limitations, can serve as vital intermediaries in the resettlement and sense of belonging of migrants.
