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Prof. Imatullah AKYAR

Faculty (Internal Medicine Nursing)

E.mail: akyarim@gmail.com

Phone: +90312 305 15 80 / 147

Imatullah Akyar graduated from the Hacettepe University School of Nursing in 2003. Dr. Akyar received a Master’s degree in 2004 and a PhD in 2010. Following doctoral studies, she completed postdoctoral research in palliative care at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing in the United States. Between 2004 and 2010, Dr. Akyar worked as a research assistant in the Department of Internal Medicine Nursing at Hacettepe University. From 2010 to 2013, she served as a lecturer in the same department. Since 2014, she has been working as a faculty member in the Department of Internal Medicine Nursing at Hacettepe University. Her academic work focuses on palliative care, symptom management, chronic disease management, geriatrics, and caregiver research.

Selected Publications:

  • Akyar I, Dionne-Odom JN, Ozcan M, Bakitas MA. Needs Assessment for Turkish Family Caregivers of Older Persons with Cancer: First Phase Results of Adapting an Early Palliative Care Model (ENABLE). Journal of Palliative Medicine. 2019.
  • Böke Kılıclı A, Talcott Kelber S, Akyar I, Litwack K. Attitude, Source of Knowledge, and Supporting Factors on Evidence-Based Nursing Among Cardiovascular Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Descriptive Study in Turkey. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 2019, 25:498-506. 
  • Ersoy N, Akyar I. Multidimensional Pruritus Assessment in Hemodialysis Patients. BMC Nephrology. 2019, 42. 
  • Akyar I, Dionne-Odom JN, Bakitas MA. Using Patients and Their Caregivers Feedback to Develop ENABLE CHF-PC: An early Palliative Care Intervention for Advanced Heart Failure. Journal of Palliative Care. 2019, 34(2):103-110. 
  • Atakul E, Akyar I. Frailty Prevalence and Characteristrics in Older Adults with Hematologic Cancer: A descriptive Study. Asian Pacific Journal Oncology Nursing. 2019. 6:43-49.