Compliance of Nurses Working in Emergency Services and Intensive Care Units to Isolation Precautıons in Covid-19 Pandemic and Health Anxiety Levels

Aim: Nurses faced with some physical and mental problems fighting on the front line in the Covid-19 pandemic. In this difficult fighting, it is important to compliance of nurses with the isolation precautions both in terms of their health and the speed of contagion. It was a...

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Main Authors: Ela Yılmaz Coşkun, Nilüfer Berberkayar
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Language:English
Published: Hemşirelikte Araştırma Geliştirme Derneği 2023-05-01
Series:Hemşirelikte Araştırma Geliştirme Dergisi
Online Access:https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/doi/10.69487/hemarge.1204457
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description Aim: Nurses faced with some physical and mental problems fighting on the front line in the Covid-19 pandemic. In this difficult fighting, it is important to compliance of nurses with the isolation precautions both in terms of their health and the speed of contagion. It was aimed to examine the nurses' compliance with the isolation precautions the pandemic and the level of health anxiety.Methods: It is descriptive and relationship type. It was carried out with nurses working in emergency service and intensive care units in a state university training and research hospital in Turkey between November-December 2020 (N = 116). The rate of participation of nurses in the study is 88.8% (n = 103) regardless of choosing a sample. The data obtained with the questionnaire form, "Compliance Scale to Isolation Precautions" and "Health Anxiety Scale". The data obtained were analyzed using descriptive, parametric, and nonparametric statistical methods in SPSS 23.0 package data program. Results: In the study; the compliance of nurses with isolation precautions was found to be higher than in the literature. It was found that the health anxiety levels of the nurses were low. In addition, no significant relationship was found between the two scales. Conclusions: It is recommended regularly to plan training programs that will increase nurses' compliance with isolation precautions and reduce anxiety and to conduct the study based on observation in a larger sample group.
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spelling doaj-art-f261ffba482b4c01bd6d6e5919d432a62024-11-20T18:14:17ZengHemşirelikte Araştırma Geliştirme DerneğiHemşirelikte Araştırma Geliştirme Dergisi1307-95572023-05-01231,2,3172810.69487/hemarge.1204457 Compliance of Nurses Working in Emergency Services and Intensive Care Units to Isolation Precautıons in Covid-19 Pandemic and Health Anxiety Levels Ela Yılmaz Coşkun0Nilüfer Berberkayar1Namık Kemal University, TurkeyKdz. Ereğli Devlet Hastanesi Aim: Nurses faced with some physical and mental problems fighting on the front line in the Covid-19 pandemic. In this difficult fighting, it is important to compliance of nurses with the isolation precautions both in terms of their health and the speed of contagion. It was aimed to examine the nurses' compliance with the isolation precautions the pandemic and the level of health anxiety.Methods: It is descriptive and relationship type. It was carried out with nurses working in emergency service and intensive care units in a state university training and research hospital in Turkey between November-December 2020 (N = 116). The rate of participation of nurses in the study is 88.8% (n = 103) regardless of choosing a sample. The data obtained with the questionnaire form, "Compliance Scale to Isolation Precautions" and "Health Anxiety Scale". The data obtained were analyzed using descriptive, parametric, and nonparametric statistical methods in SPSS 23.0 package data program. Results: In the study; the compliance of nurses with isolation precautions was found to be higher than in the literature. It was found that the health anxiety levels of the nurses were low. In addition, no significant relationship was found between the two scales. Conclusions: It is recommended regularly to plan training programs that will increase nurses' compliance with isolation precautions and reduce anxiety and to conduct the study based on observation in a larger sample group.https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/doi/10.69487/hemarge.1204457
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Compliance of Nurses Working in Emergency Services and Intensive Care Units to Isolation Precautıons in Covid-19 Pandemic and Health Anxiety Levels
Hemşirelikte Araştırma Geliştirme Dergisi
title Compliance of Nurses Working in Emergency Services and Intensive Care Units to Isolation Precautıons in Covid-19 Pandemic and Health Anxiety Levels
title_full Compliance of Nurses Working in Emergency Services and Intensive Care Units to Isolation Precautıons in Covid-19 Pandemic and Health Anxiety Levels
title_fullStr Compliance of Nurses Working in Emergency Services and Intensive Care Units to Isolation Precautıons in Covid-19 Pandemic and Health Anxiety Levels
title_full_unstemmed Compliance of Nurses Working in Emergency Services and Intensive Care Units to Isolation Precautıons in Covid-19 Pandemic and Health Anxiety Levels
title_short Compliance of Nurses Working in Emergency Services and Intensive Care Units to Isolation Precautıons in Covid-19 Pandemic and Health Anxiety Levels
title_sort compliance of nurses working in emergency services and intensive care units to isolation precautions in covid 19 pandemic and health anxiety levels
url https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/doi/10.69487/hemarge.1204457
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