Burcu Özer is a PhD candidate in Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing at Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, bringing over a decade of multifaceted clinical and administrative experience to her academic work.
Her professional background is characterized by a significant tenure in high-stakes clinical environments, including six years in General Surgery and extensive practice in Psychiatric Care. Beyond clinical practice, she has actively contributed to Quality Management within the healthcare system. This experience has provided her with a deep understanding of healthcare standards, patient safety protocols, and organizational efficiency—skills that are instrumental in conducting structured and rigorous academic research.
By integrating her expertise in quality standards with her specialization in psychiatric nursing, she focuses on holistic patient outcomes and the improvement of care protocols. She is currently looking to engage in international research collaborations, specifically in areas requiring clinical expertise, methodological discipline, and cross-cultural perspectives.
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This study aims to reveal the relationship between childhood traumas and emotion regulation skills of obese and non-obese individuals. The research is a comparative-descriptive and correlational study. The obese group included 52 people with a BMI ≥ 30, and the non-obese group included 58 people with a BMI ≤ 25 kg/m2. Information Form, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ), and Emotion Regulation Skills Questionnaire (ERSQ) were used in the study data. The rates of total childhood trauma and physical neglect were significantly higher in obese individuals (53.8 % vs. 32.8 %; 50 % vs. 22.4 %, respectively) than in non-obese individuals. Obese individuals were found to have lower emotion regulation skills. While a significant inverse relationship was found between childhood trauma and emotion regulation skills total and sub-dimension scores in obese individuals, no significant relationship was found in non-obese individuals. Psychiatric-mental health nurses can play an active role in the prevention and treatment of obesity by providing emotion regulation training to individuals in their roles as counselors and educators.
