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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COVID-19 PERCEIVED RISK AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS COVID-19 VACCINATION IN HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS: AN EXAMPLE OF EASTERN TURKEY
Full text linkBacground: This study aimed to examine the relationship between COVID-19 perceived risk and attitudes towards COVID-19
vaccination in healthcare professionals.
Subjects and methods: This cross-sectional descriptive study included a total of 580 healthcare professionals.
Results: The healthcare professionals COVID-19 Perceived Risk Scale (CPRS) and Attitudes towards COVID-19 Vaccine Scale
(ATV-COVID-19) mean scores were 31.36+5.16 and 3.00+5.16 and 3.00+0.61, respectively. A statistically significant negative correlation was
found between their CPRS and ATV-COVID-19 mean scores.
Conclusions: The healthcare professionals had a high COVID-19 perceived risk and moderately positive attitudes towards
COVID-19 vaccine
Analysis of anxiety levels and attitudes of nursing students toward the nursing profession during the COVID-19 pandemic
Full text linkPurpose This study was conducted to analyze the anxiety levels and attitudes of nursing students for the nursing profession during the COVID-19 pandemic
The Relationship Between Religious Coping Styles, Perceived Stress and Attitudes Towards Death Among Individuals With Relatives in Intensive Care: A Path Analysis
No full textBackground: Individuals with relatives in intensive care face high psychological distress. Religious coping styles and perceived stress may influence their attitudes towards death, yet the mechanisms of this relationship remain unclear. Aim: The study was conducted to examine the relationship between the religious coping styles of individuals with relatives in intensive care, their perceived stress and their attitudes towards death and to investigate the mediating role of perceived stress in the relationship between religious coping styles and attitudes towards death. Study Design: This descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted between March 1, 2023 and March 3, 2025 with individuals who had patients in the intensive care units of a city hospital located in eastern Turkey. Data collection tools included a Personal Information Form, Religious Coping Scale (RCS), Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) and Death Attitudes Profile-Revised (DAP-R). Results: Of the 350 individuals invited to participate, 245 completed the study, yielding a response rate of 70.0%. In the study, the mean positive coping score was 18.26 ± 4.87, and the mean negative coping style score was 20.43 ± 4.65. The mean PSS score was 32.28 ± 12.02, the mean Perceived Insufficient Self-Efficacy Perception score was 15.03 ± 6.61, and the mean Perceived Stress/Distress score was 17.25 ± 6.85. The mean DAP-R score was 114.31 ± 22.79, the mean Neutral Acceptance-Approach Acceptance score was 51.32 ± 11.56, the mean Avoidance Acceptance score was 22.43 ± 4.71, and the mean Fear of Death and Death Avoidance score was 40.55 ± 10.34. Perceived stress was found to play a mediating role in the effect of positive coping on attitude towards death (β = 0.352; (−0.675X −0.522)), and the perceived stress scale was found to strengthen the positive effect on attitude towards death (β = 0.722). Perceived stress was found to play a mediating role in the effect of negative coping style on attitude towards death (β = 0.161; (−0.310X −0.522)), and the perceived stress scale was found to strengthen the positive effect on attitude towards death (β = 0.466). Conclusion: It has been observed that participants use negative coping styles more frequently and have moderate levels of perceived stress and attitudes towards death. Positive coping styles increase attitudes towards death, but a significant part of this effect occurs through perceived stress. It can be concluded that individuals develop a healthier awareness of death despite stress or through stress and tend to accept death. Relevance to Clinical Practice: Understanding how religious coping and stress affect death attitudes can help healthcare professionals provide more targeted psychological and spiritual support to families of intensive care patients
Analysis of nursing students' obsessive and coping behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic
No full textPurpose: This study was conducted to examine the obsessive behaviors and coping behaviors of nursing students during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Design and Methods: This descriptive study was conducted between October 4 and October 17, 2020. Findings: In this study, it was found that nursing students had a mean total COVID-19 Obsessive Compulsive Scale score of 3.88 +/- 3.02 and a mean total Ways of Coping Inventory (WCI) score of 47.05 +/- 11.68. When the subscales of the WCI were examined, mean scores were found to be 13.64 +/- 4.85 for the self-confident approach, 8.91 +/- 3.35 for the optimistic approach, 7.25 +/- 2.24 for the seeking social support approach, 10.97 +/- 4.43 for the helpless approach, and 6.24 +/- 3.20 for the submissive approach. Practice Implications: Nursing students have low levels of obsession with COVID-19 and moderate levels of coping behaviors. For this reason, it is very important to recognize the psychological symptoms of today's nursing students-the health workforce of the future-and to determine priorities for their solution
TURKISH VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY STUDY OF CANCER EMPOWERMENT SCALE
Full text linkBackground: The present study aims to adapt "Cancer Empowermwnt Scale" to Turkish and to test its validity and reliability.
Subjects and methods:This methodological study consisted of 286 cancer patients receiving treatment. Cancer Empowerment
Scale (CES) were used in this study.
Results:The scale's content validity index was found as .96. Total Cronbach's alpha coefficient of the scale is 0.93. Cronbach's
alpha coefficient is 0.92 for personal strength dimension, 0.95 for social support dimension, 0.87 for healthcare and 0.94 for
community support. Item factor loads were found to range between 0.40 and 0.87 and item total correlation coefficients were found
to be between 0.32 and 0.59. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and exploratory factor analysis (EFA) conducted supported the 4
factor structure of the scale. CFA results showed good fit index values.
Conclusions: Turkish version of Cancer Empowerment Scale is a valid and reliable measurement tool to evaluate the empowerment
states of cancer patients. With this scale, it is thought that by evaluating the empowerment status of cancer patients and determining
the deficiencies in this issue, it will provide supportive interventions to patients in clinical practice according to their needs
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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