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Determining Individuals’ Attitudes Toward Cancer Screening and Their Influential Factors Erkal, Emre
Makara Journal of Health Research Vol. 26, No. 2
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Background: Cancer screenings are of great importance for the early detection of cancer. The goal of this study is to determine the attitudes of individuals toward cancer screening and the factors affecting these attitudes. Methods: This descriptive, cross-sectional study comprised 1059 participants who were living in Turkey. The participants were recruited through the snowball sampling method between December 6 and 24, 2021. The Individual Self-Assessment Form and Attitude Scale for Cancer Screening were used to collect data. The data were analyzed by using independent samples t-test, one-way ANOVA, and Pearson’s correlation analysis. Results: The mean score of the participants’ attitude toward cancer screening was 94.57 ± 18.39. Age, gender, marital status, place of residence, family type, occupation, social security, income, and educational level had a significant effect on the participants’ attitude score (p < 0.05). Furthermore, the attitude score was significantly affected by cancer screening information; early cancer screening; and the beliefs that early cancer detection is achievable and that cancer is a preventable and treatable disease (p < 0.001). Conclusions: Individuals have a positive attitude toward cancer screening. Health professionals should inform individuals who have a negative attitude toward cancer screening.
Determination of Individuals’ Attitudes Toward COVID-19 Vaccines and Health Fatalism: A Cross-sectional Study from Turkey Erkal, Emre; Demirkiran, Bedriye Cansu; Köleoğlu, Şerife; Demir Çam, Sevgi
Makara Journal of Health Research Vol. 27, No. 1
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Background: Vaccines have positive effects on the course of epidemics. This study was conducted to determine individuals’ attitudes toward coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) vaccines, their health fatalism, and factors affecting these. Methods: This cross-sectional study included 944 participants living in Turkey, who were included in the study by snowball sampling, one of the nonprobability random sampling methods. Participant information form, attitudes toward the COVID-19 vaccine scale, and religious health fatalism scale were used to collect the study data. Independent sample t-test, one-way analysis of variance and Pearson correlation analysis were used in the data analysis. Results: Participants had mean positive attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccine score of 3.63 ± 1.14, mean negative attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccine score of 3.44 ± 0.91, and mean health fatalism score of 45.75 ± 17.43. Negative and significant correlations were found between participants’ mean health fatalism score and their mean positive attitudes score (r = −0.213) and their mean negative attitude score (r = −0.362) (p < 0.001). Conclusions: Individuals were found to have high positive and low negative attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccines and moderate levels of health fatalism. Individuals with high health fatalism had low positive and high negative attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccines.
Co-Authors Demir Çam, Sevgi Demirkiran, Bedriye Cansu Köleoğlu, Şerife