PURE PROJECT TURKEY

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PURE PROJECT TURKEY

• Aytekin Oguz - Nese Imeryüz

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Sampling Frame Recruitment
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• 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

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Sampling Frame Recruitment
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Sampling Frame Recruitment
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Sampling Frame Recruitment
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Population Samplingno of participant per study
center
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Population SamplingNo of clusters per study
center
Urban cluster size 50 people, rural cluster
size 100 people
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Population SamplingNo of families per study
center
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Sampling Frame Recruitment
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Steps 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?

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Steps 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

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Steps 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

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Steps 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

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People recruited to the study

• None

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Waiting for your suggestions to realize the
project
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Thank you very much for your attention