The effect of nurses' perceived workplace incivility on their presenteeism and turnover intention: The mediating role of work stress and psychological resilience.

Aim: This study aims to determine the effects of nurses' perceived workplace incivility on nurses' presenteeism and turnover intention and to reveal the mediating role of work stress and psychological resilience in the possible impact.

Background: Nurses directly contribute to the treatment of patients. The problems nurses encounter in the workplace can negatively affect nurses' attitudes towards work.

The influences of corporate policies for COVID-19 on work stress and anxiety among healthcare employees.

Background: During the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, if it is considered that educated manpower is the most valuable resource of countries, it can be thought that various policies should be developed both at the macro- and micro-levels to minimize the loss of healthcare employees.

Objective: This study aims to determine the effects of the corporate policies for COVID-19 on the work stress and anxiety of healthcare employees.

Method: The sample of the study consists of 136 of 265 healthcare employees in Sakarya Provincial Health Directorate Emergency Health Services in Turkey.

The effect of stress levels of nurses on performance during the COVID-19 pandemic: the mediating role of motivation.

Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, it is thought that nurses working at more intensive levels and in high-risk areas may increase their stress and decrease their motivations and performance.

Aims: This study aimed to determine the effects of stress and work stress on nurses' motivations and performances.

Methods: An online, cross-sectional survey, which used self-assessment scales to measure perceived stress, perceived work stress, motivation, and work performance was used as a data collection tool.

The Mediating Role of Resilience in the Effect of Perceived Social Support on Fear of COVID-19: A Research on Healthcare Employees.

The aim of this research was to determine the mediating role of resilience in the effect of perceived social support on fear of COVID-19. The research was conducted in the Marmara region of Turkey in July and August 2020. The present research showed that the perceived social support has a positive effect on resilience.

The effect of the fatalistic perception on the perceptions of occupational health and safety practices: The case of a hospital.

Background: Many factors threaten occupational health and safety, such as technology and production systems used by businesses as well as employee qualifications. This research addresses the issue of how these factors have become a threat to occupational health and safety.

Objective: This study aims to determine whether healthcare professionals' fatalistic perceptions affect their perceptions of occupational health and safety practices.

Defensive Medicine Practices: Scale Development and Validation.

Aim: Defensive medicine refers to practices with low marginal benefit to patients that doctors may undertake to protect themselves from legal liability. We aimed to develop a scale to measure the practice of defensive medicine.

Method: We identified aspects of defensive medicine previously reported in the literature and conducted and analyzed semi-structured interviews with 21 physicians in Sakarya to augment and clarify these aspects between May 15, 2018, and June 15, 2018.

Assessment of healthcare professionals' perceptions and attitudes towards the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey.

Background: Determining the healthcare professionals' perceptions and attitudes towards the COVID-19 pandemic will contribute to managing and struggling their efforts against COVID-19.

Objective: This study aimed to determine the perceptions and attitudes of healthcare professionals who are at the forefront in the fight against this pandemic.

Methods: In the study, the survey technique used as the data collection method and 216 participants agreed to participate.

A survey of health information seeking by cancer patients indicates some problems over medical explanations and terminology.

Background: Cancer patients may experience stress because of insufficient information about their illness, health condition, or treatment, but some may fear what the information reveals.

Objective: This study aims to determine health information-seeking behaviour, the attitudes of cancer patients, the barriers they face in seeking health information and their sociodemographic and disease characteristics.

Methods: A survey was conducted with 84 cancer patients in Turkey.

The mediating role of patient satisfaction in the effect of patient visit experiences on word-of-mouth intention.

The purpose of this study is to find out whether patient experiences of examinations affect their word-of-mouth (WOM) intention and to identify the role of patient satisfaction with the physician in this effect. Data were collected via survey form ( = 1,100). Descriptive statistical methods, reliability analysis, exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and structural equation modeling were used in the data analysis.

The Mediating Role of Shared Decision-Making in the Effect of the Patient-Physician Relationship on Compliance With Treatment.

Background: For a successful treatment outcome, the components of the treatment process are very important. The patient-physician relationship plays a key role in the successful therapeutic process and effective health service delivery. The patient's compliance with the treatment directly affects the success of the treatment.

During COVID-19, which is more effective in work accident prevention behavior of healthcare professionals: Safety awareness or fatalism perception?

Background: As the pandemic process, COVID-19 has a serious occupational safety risk for healthcare professionals. Therefore, determining their health and safety perceptions and attitudes in the pandemic process is very important. This study aims to determine which is more effective in work accident prevention behavior: safety awareness and competencies of healthcare professionals or perception of fatalism.

Turkish Adaptation of the Frommelt Attitude Toward Care of the Dying Scale.

The aim of the research was to conduct the Turkish validity and reliability study of the Frommelt Attitude toward Care of the Dying Scale. The study used a cross-sectional research design. The sample of the study consists of 236 intensive care nurses.

The role of the human factor in occupational safety and health performance.

. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of managers' commitment to occupational safety and health (OSH) on employees' safety awareness and competency, employees' involvement, reporting culture and OSH performance; the effect of employees' involvement in OSH on safety awareness and competency, reporting culture and OSH performance; and the mediating role of employees' involvement in the effect of managers' commitment to OSH on OSH performance. .

The influence of patient-physician communication on physician loyalty and hospital loyalty of the patient.

Objective: Patient-physician communication is important for an effective healthcare service and for the patient's development of loyalty to the hospital. In this regard, this study aimed to determine whether there is a relationship between the patient-physician communication, the loyalty of the patient to the physician and to the hospital. Also study aimed to determine whether there is a mediating role of the physician loyalty on the patient-physician communication effect on to the hospital loyalty.

The mediating role of work alienation in the effect of workplace loneliness on nurses' performance.

Aim: The purpose of this study was to determine the mediating role that work alienation has in the effect of loneliness at the workplace on nurses' job performance.

Background: The literature includes no research on the relationship between nurses' workplace loneliness, work alienation and job performance. The study used work alienation as a mediating variable, which adds to the originality of the study.

Custody and prison deaths autopsied in Istanbul between 2010 and 2012.

The occurred death of a convict in prison, police custody cell or in a hospital always attracts public attention and can be considered as a complex phenomenon. The aim of this study is to evaluate the data obtained from autopsies performed to the custody and prison deaths in Istanbul and to discuss the possible solutions by comparing with the literature. It is also aimed to discuss the postponement of the sentence and presidential amnesty facts in Turkey.