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PURE PROJECT TURKEY. Aytekin Oğuz - Neşe İmeryüz. Sampling Frame & Recruitment. Definition of rural: Population size ≤ 20.000 Selection of rural settlements : Villages within 2 - hour d r iving distance but at least 50 km away from the urban cities. Sampling Frame & Recruitment.
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PURE PROJECT TURKEY Aytekin Oğuz - Neşe İmeryüz
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
Population SamplingNo of clusters per study center Urban cluster size = 50 people, rural cluster size = 100 people
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?
Steps taken until now Application for a grant from TUBİTAK • 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
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
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