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Purpose: We aimed to examine the relationship between nurses’ views about mobile health applications and acceptance of mobile applications. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted with 321 nurses in a Health Practices and Research Center over the period March-July 2020. Data were collected with the “Personal Data Form” and the “Mobile Applications Acceptance Model (MAAM).” Results: Among the nurses in the study, 97.2% believed that mobile health applications should be put to more use in the hospitals. The total mean score of the nurses on MAAM was 124.69 ± 15.98, and the highest score (28.78 ± 3.23) among the subscales was in “Needs”. Nurses under the age of 30, those who worked in intensive care units, and those who owned a mobile device exhibited higher total mean scores on the MAAM (p < 0.05). The MAAM total mean scores were higher among those who thought MHA’s should be made more widespread (p < 0.04), who felt that MHA’s were effective in accessing individual health data (p < 0.001), who felt that using MHA’s was easy (p = 0.022), who believed that using MHA’s helped patients access health services without having to come to the hospital (p < 0.001) and who wanted to help patients obtain health services without coming to the hospital (p < 0.001). Conclusions: Opportunities should be created whereby nurses can use mobile health applications in the hospitals. If this can be achieved, there will be a faster and more improved provision of health services.

Objective: This study aims to assess the relationship between marital adjustment and paternal-infant attachment.Methods: This descriptive-cross sectional study was conducted between March and April 2017. No sampling was performed, the study wasconducted with 110 fathers who could be accessed between the aforementioned dates and who had babies aged between 0 to 12 monthsold. Questionnaires were asked fathers by researchers.The outcome measurements: Socio-demographic Information Form, Marital AdjustmentTest, and PIAQ. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS 13.0 program.Results: Fathers’ MAT mean score was found 44.182±5.17, and PIAQ mean score was found 77.935±8.08. There was a positive, weak, butsignificant relationship between MAT and PIAQ (r=0.25; p=0.009). Marital adjustment scores were found to increase with the increase in“patience”, “tolerance”, and “pleasure in interaction” subscale scores. MATsubscales were found to affect each other positively, and this effectwas found to have a significant relationship with paternal-infant attachment level (p