Aims: The aim of this study was to assess the validity and reliability of the Salutogenic Health Indicator Scale (SHIS) among a sample of Turkish university students.
Methods: This study was conducted with 291 university students. The SHIS was evaluated in terms of language equivalence, validity and the reliability.
Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of interviews based on a salutogenic approach on the sense of coherence and resilience in schizophrenic patients.
Design And Methods: A pretest-posttest randomized controlled experimental trial was conducted with 49 patients.
Findings: The posttest and follow-up mean scores of the subscales and the overall scale of sense of coherence and resilience differed in favor of the intervention group (p < 0.
Perspect Psychiatr Care
October 2022
Purpose: To determine the knowledge and practices of nurses working in psychiatry clinics on the ventrogluteal (VG) injection.
Design And Methods: This study was conducted as a descriptive and cross-sectional study. A total of 91 nurses constituted the sample of the study.
Purpose: The attitudes of healthcare workers toward COVID-19 vaccines ensure that health services are able to run without interruption and potentially have a role in the messaging about vaccination that they convey to the public. Hence, healthcare workers' attitudes ultimately have a significant role in controlling the pandemic. This study aimed to qualitatively investigate the attitudes of healthcare workers in Turkey in relation to COVID-19 vaccines.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Headlines are usually read first. Since headlines are designed to be remarkable and memorable in terms of form and meaning, their impact on the positive or negative attitudes of the society towards individuals with mental illness may be greater than the news texts.
Aims: This study aimed to retrospectively examine and analyze the content of violence headlines related to people with mental disorders.
Background: Nurses, who are playing an important role during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, are exposed to a range of psychosocial stressors due to unforeseen risks.
Objectives: The objective of this study is to determine the experiences and psychosocial problems of nurses caring for patients diagnosed with COVID-19 in Turkey.
Settings: The data were collected between 9 May and 12 May 2020, in Istanbul, Turkey.
Background: Because a great majority of the public knows about mental disorders primarily through printed or visual media, the attitudes exhibited in mass media might be predictive in stigmatizing individuals with mental disorders.
Aim: The aim of this study was to retrospectively assess the articles in Turkish newspapers that mention individuals with mental disorders.
Method: This study was designed to retrospectively investigate and analyze newspaper content in Turkey; the newspapers' circulation information was collected by examining the websites of the four newspapers with above 1% of the total circulation.