Title: PURE PROJECT TURKEY
1PURE PROJECT TURKEY
- Aytekin Oguz - Nese Imeryüz
2Sampling Frame Recruitment
3- Definition of rural Population size 20.000
- Selection of rural settlements Villages within
2-hour driving distance but at least 50 km away
from the urban cities
4Sampling Frame Recruitment
5Sampling Frame Recruitment
6Sampling Frame Recruitment
7Population Samplingno of participant per study
center
8Population SamplingNo of clusters per study
center
Urban cluster size 50 people, rural cluster
size 100 people
9Population SamplingNo of families per study
center
10Sampling Frame Recruitment
11Steps taken until now Ethic Committee approval
- Done
- If genetic material will be kept in Turkey
- To export the genetic material we need approval
of Central Ethics Committee of the Ministry of
Health - Any possibility to do genetic studies within
Turkey?
12Steps taken until now Application for a grant
from TUBITAK
- Declined
- We are waiting for the reasons on which their
decline was based - We are going to reapply after correcting
shortcomings - Re-evaluation of the project takes almost 3-4
months
13Steps taken until now Semiquantitative FFQ
- A pilot study to prepare a semiquantitative food
frequency questionnaire was designed and
approved for financial support by TUBITAK but not
started -
14Steps ahead
- Translation and validation of questionnaires
- Meeting of the local committees
- Recruitment and education of the surveying
people, nurses, dieticians and laboratory
technicians - Standardization of the laboratories that will
process the collected blood
15People recruited to the study
16Waiting for your suggestions to realize the
project
17Thank you very much for your attention