Public Health

In many health conditions, stigma is receiving increasing attention. Public stigmatization toward social illness can affect particularly the patients and family memberships to help seeking behavior and treatment. This study, the aim of this study was to investigate the validity and reliability of the Turkish "Stigma of Tuberculosis Scale " which was developed to evaluate of perception of stigma with tuberkulosis patient. This methodological study was conducted with 150 with tuberculosis disease people who above 18 age and without known psychological and mental disability. In the study, "Stigma of Tuberculosis Scale" was used as data collection tool. During the study, language equivalence, content validity, reliability and construct validity of the scale was performed. The data was assessed by using mean, median, standard deviation, Spearman Correlation, Cronbach Alpha coefficient and confirmatory factor analysis. The mean age of study participants was 45.6 ± 16.1...

Background: Sun protection is essential to prevent skin cancers. The aim of this study was to determine sun protection behaviour and its role as a risk factor with other risk factors in the development of actinic keratosis in older population. Methods: In total, 50 patients with actinic keratosis and 50 similar controls in terms of age, sex and education were enrolled in the study. Each participant was examined carefully by two dermatologists for the presence of actinic keratosis and determining risk factors. Standardized mini mental test, sociodemographic characteristics questionaire, sun protection questionaire were used in the study. Results: The risk of actinic keratosis development was higher in the cases having more than three frecles on face and fair skin color (OR: 4, p=0.045 and OR:3, p=0.041 respectively). The ratio of using wide-brimmed hat to protect from the sun in controls (58%) was higher than cases with actinic keratosis (32%) (p=0.015). The presence of actinic kerat...

Background and Objective: A person’s putting every behavior into practice after they receive information on health may mean that the person can exhibit the appropriate health behavior and protect his health within the context of their level of health literacy. This study was aimed at determining university students’ health literacy levels and the effects of their health literacy on their knowledge of, and attitudes and behaviors towards skin cancer prevention strategies. Materials and Methods: This descriptive study included 800 university students in the Aegean Region of Turkey. The data were collected by the researchers between March 01, 2019 and March 30, 2019. The research data were collected using the Descriptive Characteristics Form including 3 parts (the Participants' Socio-Demographic Characteristics Questionnaire, Information-AttitudeBehavior Questionnaire, Risk Factors Questionnaire) and the "Turkish Health Literacy Scale". The association between the sociode...

ÖZET AMAÇ: Manisa'da düşük yaptırma hizmeti sunan sağlık hizmet sunucuları ile tıp ve hemşirelik fakültesinde okuyan son sınıf öğrencilerinin tıbbi düşük hakkındaki bakış açıları ve algılamalarının belirlenmesi. YÖNTEM: Çalışma, Türkiye'de yapılan "Sağlık hizmeti sunanların güvenli düşük ve tıbbi düşük konusundaki görüşleri ve algıları" çalışmasının Manisa bölümüdür. Çalışma tanımlayıcı tiptedir. Çalışmada araştırmacılar tarafından hazırlanan soru kâğıdı sağlık hizmet sunucularına yönelik ve öğrencilere yönelik olmak üzere iki bölümden oluşmaktadır. Anketler araştırma grubundaki bireyler tarafından doldurulmuştur. BULGULAR: Araştırma sonuçlarına göre, hizmet sunanlar en az bir düşük yöntemi bilmektedir. Araştırma grubunda güvenli olmayan düşüğün tanımında ilk sırayı düşüğün geleneksel ebe tarafından yaptırılması almaktadır. Tıbbi düşüğü kadın doğum uzmanlarının %100'ü pratisyen hekimlerin %84,7'si ve hemşire/ebelerin %74,6'sı bildiklerini belirtmişlerdi...

In this study, it was aimed to develop a vaccine attitude scale. This scale has the potential to aid in the advancement of research and immunization policy. We carried out exploratory factor analysis (EFA) to discover the uncovered dimensions and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to validate the obtained structures in vaccine attitude scale. Also, we checked the reliabilities with Cronbach Alpha coefficients for each factor. The results revealed that the vaccine attitude scale can be represented with three factors such as the benefits, acceptance and hesitation of the vaccine. We observed positive relationship between benefits-acceptance and an acceptance-hesitation factor but there is negative relationship between benefits-hesitation in vaccine attitude scale. The dimension of the vaccine attitude scale was found reliable and valid as the results of the statistical analysis. This improved scale was found fairly high in terms of validity and reliability. Besides, it is found that i...