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Irem AYVAT

Research Assistant (Psychiatric Nursing)

E.mail: iremayvat@hacettepe.edu.tr

Phone: +90312 305 15 80 / 181

She was born in Ankara in April 1994. She completed her undergraduate degree at Giresun University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing in 2016. During her/his undergraduate studies, she spent seven months in 2015 as an Erasmus exchange student at the Escola Superior de Enfermagem de São José de Cluny in Madeira, Portugal. Between 2017 and 2018, she worked as a Cardiology Nurse. In April 2018, she began her academic career as a Research Assistant in the Department of Psychiatric Nursing at Hacettepe University, Faculty of Nursing. She completed her Master’s degree in 2019 and her PhD in 2025 at the Hacettepe University Graduate School of Health Sciences, Department of Psychiatric Nursing. Her Master’s thesis examined the unmet needs of outpatients receiving chemotherapy within the context of age, while her PhD thesis focused on the unmet psychosocial support needs of older patients with cancer receiving outpatient chemotherapy and their caregivers. Since January 2019, she has been continuing her Psychodrama Group Psychotherapy training at the Abdülkadir Özbek Psychodrama Institute. Within the scope of preventive mental health studies, she has conducted face-to-face and online psychodrama groups and workshops aimed at the psychological empowerment of university students.

Selected Publications:

  • Ayvat, I., & Ozbas, A. A. (2026). Two sides of the cancer journey: A qualitative study on the psychosocial supportive care needs in older patients and family caregivers. European Journal of Oncology Nursing, 80, 103078.

  • Ayvat, I., Ozbas, A. A., Sariyaz, N. D., & Kutluturkan, S. (2025). Pattern and predictors of needs of older patients with cancer undergoing chemotherapy: A qualitative study. Geriatric Nursing, 64, 103430.

  • Ayvat, İ., Sarı, A., & Özbaş, A. A. (2025). Turkish validity and reliability study of the quality of care through the patient's eyeschemo scale: Methodological study. Journal of Psychiatric Nursing, 16(3), 222.

  • Ayvat, İ., & Atli Ozbas, A. (2024). Is there a difference in unmet supportive care needs between older and younger outpatients receiving chemotherapy?. Journal of Palliative Care, 39(2), 115-121.

  • Ayvat, İ., & Ozbas, A. A. (2023). Experiences and views of nurses about unmet needs of older cancer patients receiving chemotherapy: a qualitative study. Palliative & Supportive Care, 21(2), 239-246.