Birgül Vural Doğru, PhD, RN Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Mersin University, Mersin, Turkey.

Fisun Şenuzun Aykar, PhD, RN Professor, Internal Medicine Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey.

Yasemin Yıldırım, PhD, RN Professor, Internal Medicine Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey.

Oğuz Yavuzgil, MD, PhD Professor, Cardiology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey.

Eser Sözmen, MD, PhD Professor, Medical Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Medicine, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey.

Hikmet Memmedov, PhD Medical Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Medicine, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey.

The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.

This research has qbeen financed by the budget of “Academic Staff Training Program.”

Correspondence Birgül Vural Doğru. PhD, RN, İnternal Medicine Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Mersin University, Ciftlikkoy Campus, Yenişehir, Box 33110, Mersin, Turkey ([email protected]).

This article was presented as an oral presentation at the 1st International and 3rd National Congress of Complementary Therapies And Supportive Care Practices on November 24–26, 2016, in Antalya.