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Psychometric Properties of the Turkish Version of the Palliative Care Attitude Scale (T-PCAS-9) in Cancer Patients Demir Çam, Sevgi; İşcan Ayyildiz, Neşe; Evcimen, Hasan; Çil, Timüçin; Bozkurt Duman, Berna
Makara Journal of Health Research Vol. 29, No. 2
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Background: A reliable, validated Turkish measurement tool will allow researchers to measure the impact of attitudes towards palliative care on other health outcomes in individuals with chronic and critical illness. This study aimed to examine the Turkish psychometric properties of the Palliative Care Attitude Scale (PCAS-9) for individuals with cancer. Methods: The Turkish adaptation of the PCAS-9 (T-PCAS-9) included 505 cancer patients, who were aged >18 years, had a diagnosis of cancer, and no mental problems. The factor structure of the T-PCAS-9 was examined using exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, convergent-divergent validity, and measurement invariance analysis. Results: The three-factor structure with factor loadings >0.5 was found to have convergent-divergent validity and measurement invariance. The internal consistency coefficients of the T-PCAS-9 were >0.7. Conclusions: The T-PCAS-9 was found to be a valid and reliable measurement tool for assessing palliative care attitudes in the Turkish population.
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.
Social Media Addiction Among Nursing Students and Its Related Factors Yeşiltepe, Akgün; Demirkiran, Bedriye Cansu; Demir Çam, Sevgi
Makara Journal of Health Research Vol. 27, No. 1
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Background: Social media use has become an indispensable part of our lives as a result of technology advancement and is quite high among students. Methods: This study employed a cross-sectional design. Participants were 289 students from the Faculty of Health Sciences at Artvin Coruh University, Turkey. The Social Media Addiction Scale (SMAS) was used to obtain data. T-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson’s correlation, and Bonferroni analysis were used to analyze the data. Results: The participants’ mean SMAS score was 81.03 ± 34.79, which was moderate. A weak and positive correlation was found between social media addiction and daily social media use. Statistical differences were found between social media addiction and social class, maternal education level, place of residence, income level, and general health status. Further, statistically significant differences were found between access to social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Skype, and SMAS and subscales (p < 0.05). Conclusions: The nursing students in this study showed moderate levels of social media addiction. Factors such as daily social media use, year of study, maternal education level, place of residence, income level, and general health status are associated with the degree of social media addiction.
Co-Authors Bozkurt Duman, Berna Çil, Timüçin Demirkiran, Bedriye Cansu Erkal, Emre Evcimen, Hasan İşcan Ayyildiz, Neşe Köleoğlu, Şerife Yeşiltepe, Akgün