Illness perception is an important determinant of the depression/anxiety score in Turkish breast cancer patients.

Novel moral norms peculiar to the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in tension between maintaining one’s preexisting moral priorities (e.g., loyalty to one’s family and human freedoms) and avoiding contraction of the COVID-19 disease and SARS COVID-2 virus. By drawing on moral foundations theory, the current study questioned how the COVID-19 pandemic (or health threat salience in general) affects moral decision making. With two consecutive pilot tests on three different samples ( n s ≈ 40), we prepared our own sets of moral foundation vignettes which were contextualized on three levels of health threats: the COVID-19 threat, the non-COVID-19 health threat, and no threat. We compared the wrongness ratings of those transgressions in the main study ( N = 396, M age = 22.47). The results showed that the acceptability of violations increased as the disease threat contextually increased, and the fairness, care, and purity foundations emerged as the most relevant moral concerns in the face of the disease threat. Additionally, participants’ general binding moral foundation scores consistently predicted their evaluations of binding morality vignettes independent of the degree of the health threat. However, as the disease threat increased in the scenarios, pre-existing individuating morality scores lost their predictive power for care violations but not for fairness violations. The current findings imply the importance of contextual factors in moral decision making. Accordingly, we conclude that people make implicit cost-benefit analysis in arriving at a moral decision in health threatening contexts. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12144-021-01941-y.

With the out break of Syrian war, the number of refugees seeking asylum in another country worldwide has increased sharply. As a result of the Turkey's open border policy, Turkey has came one of the most affected countries by the crisis, and become the most Syrians hosted country. At the beginning of the Syrian influx, the attitudes of Turkish society towards Syrians were positive based on the understanding of hospitality. However, with the increase in the number of Syrians and the length of their stay, Turks' attitudes toward Syrians have turned to be xenophobia. According to Integrated Threat Theory, System Justification Theory and Unified Insturmental Model of Group Conflict, one of the most important factors underlying the negative attitudes and behaviors towards refugees is perceived threat. Perceived threat derives from several factors, and constitutes the basis of intergroup conflict between refugees and host-population. With the aim of examining threat perceptions of Turkish society towards Syrians, this research content analyzed 25 articles, published in between 2014-2017, focusing on negative attitudes and threat perceptions towards Syrians in the Turkish society. The analysis revealed that Turkish society considers Syrians as a threat in five different areas: (1) cultural (2) social and moral, (3) economic, (4) security and (5) access to basic service areas. These findings were discussed in the light of theories of threat perceptions, and policy recommendations were offered.

We have demonstrated, for the first time, high rates of ST131 clone among ESBL-producing E. coli isolates in Istanbul, a region with high rates of resistance to third-generation cephalosporins and fluoroquinolones. Further investigation of this high-risk clone and its contribution to high antimicrobial resistance in Turkey is essential. MALDI-TOF MS is a useful tool for detection of high-risk clones and associated resistance patterns, simultaneous to bacterial identification.

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