http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12566/992 2026-04-05T20:45:05Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12566/984 The use of mobile applications for travel booking: impacts of application quality and brand trust Albayrak, Tahir; González-Rodríguez, M. Rosario; Caber, Meltem; Karasakal, Sezer The increasing use of mobile applications by travellers and the high adaption of tourism companies into this new contact and sales platform, made it necessary to comprehensively investigate the mobile application users’ behaviours. This research combines the Stimulus-Organism-Response (S-O-R) framework and Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to develop a theoretical background in examining travel booking behaviour of mobile application users. The conceptual model suggests that mobile application quality (MAQ) directly affects perceived ease of use (PEOU) and perceived usefulness (PU) which influence the intention to use (IU) mobile applications. Moreover, the offline brand trust (BT) has been hypothesised as a moderator between PEOU and PU’s impacts on IU mobile applications. Analyses results indicated that system and service quality dimensions of MAQ significantly affect IU mobile application via PEOU and PU. Moreover, offline BT had both direct and moderator influences on the formation of IU mobile application. The study findings contributed to the theory in understanding mobile application users’ behaviours and suggested valuable managerial strategies in the m-commerce context. 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12566/961 Health research in vegan women Özcan, Handan; Elkoca, Ayşe; Şahan, Özlem; Yılmaz, Sibel; Erişen, Begüm tudy Objectives: This planned research aimed to identify the conditions for women’s health in women who prefer vegan diets. Method: The study consists of vegan women and the sample consists of a total of 150 women who agreed to participate in the study. The data was collected through a questionnaire consist ing of 34 questions. Associations and vegan women were reached out via social media. Results:The average age of the participants was 28.96±8.50 and 33.3% were married. The average year in which women continue to eat vegan is 3.29±5.25. 62% of vegan women stated that their menstrual periods were painless, 87.3% stated that their menstrual periods were regular, and 75.3% stated that they did not have any gynecological diseases. The most common complaints in vegan women are stress and anxiety (27.1%), continuous discharge (27.1), depression (25), polycystic ovary syndrome (20.8), urinary tract infection (20.8), and fibroids (12.5). 18% of vegan women had been diagnosed with anemia, of which 18.8% used anemia treatment. Conclusion: It was found that vegan women did not have many complaints in terms of gynecology while existing complaints were similar or even lower in terms of disease rates seen in the total population. The study group’s high level of education and awareness and regular health checkups are among the factors affecting the results. The low vegan diet averages of the women covered in the study and the fact that a greater number of women were out of reach show the limitations of the study 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12566/960 The effect of nutritional habits on bone minerals density in women with postmenopausal osteoporosis Akarsu, Gökhan Doğukan; Şahan, Özlem; Höbek Akarsu, Rukiye; Yalman, Eylem Study Objectives: It was stated that the effect of dietary habits is of great importance in the prevention, pathogenesis, and treatment of osteoporosis. This descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted to determine the effect of nutritional habits on bone mineral density in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis. Methods: The research was completed with 158 women who applied to the orthopedics and traumatology outpatient clinic with the diagnosis of postmenopausal osteoporosis between October 2020 and April 2021 in a practice and research hospital in Central Anatolia. The data were collected with the DEXA result reports in the patient files and the Patient Identification Form created by the researchers by scanning the literature. Results: 94.3% of the women included in the study smoked, 98.1% did not drink alcohol, 48.1% occasionally consumed coffee, 54.4% daily 3 cups of tea, 45.6% decently consumed cereals and cereal products, 39.3% sometimes consumed milk and dairy products. 82.3% of participants do not receive vitamin D and 88% do not receive calcium support therapy. Conclusion: It was determined that smoking, tea consumption, and BMI of women did not affect bone mineral density (p>0.05). It was determined that coffee consumption, frequently consumed food type, and taking vitamin D and calcium supplements affected bone mineral density (p<0.05). 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12566/959 Health habits and vitamin supplementation of young female students with a family history of cancer diagnosis Şahan, Özlem; Akarsu, Gökhan Doğukan; Höbek Akarsu, Rukiye; Atilla, Rabia Study Objectives: To examine the health habits and vitamin supplementation status of female students who were diagnosed with cancer in their family history. Methods: The research was conducted de scriptively with female students studying at a public university in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. In the study, 324 female students who accepted the study and were diagnosed with cancer in their families were included in the sample. Numeric and percentage statistics were used to analyze the data. Results: People with a family history of cancer need to have cancer screening and follow lifestyle recommendations because of the high risk of cancer. Conclusion: In this study, it was seen that cancer diagnosis in a relative can motivate to improve health behavior in individuals. 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z