Turk hijiyen ve deneysel biyoloji dergisi. Turkish bulletin of hygiene and experimental biology最新文献

{"title":"Parent’s attitude and knowledge on HPV vaccination: A descriptive study","authors":"S. Tursun, Hüsniye Yücel, E. Altınel Açoğlu","doi":"10.5505/turkhijyen.2022.75725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5505/turkhijyen.2022.75725","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is the most common sexually transmitted disease and can be prevented by vaccination. The most important factors affecting the vaccination rates may be parents’ knowledge levels and opinions on the issue and their total income levels. Moreover, parental hesitancy against vaccination, including even those in the national vaccination programs, has recently gradually increased in Turkey and worldwide. Ultimately, in this study, it was aimed to determine parents’ knowledge and opinions on the HPV vaccination and the factors affecting their vaccination decisions. Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted with 552 parents of 9-18-year-old daughters and sons at two research hospitals in 2020 in Turkey. Face-to-face interviews were carried out to collect data on the parental knowledge levels and attitudes regarding HPV vaccination, as well as reasons for refusal. Results: Of the 552 parents, 438 were mothers and 114 were fathers. More than half of the parents (69%) stated that they had not heard of HPV vaccines. After a short briefing, the parents were separately asked did not have enough information about vaccines [59.6% (n = 37)]. Conclusion: Most of the parents did not have enough information about HPV vaccines. The parental vaccine acceptance rates were significantly affected by the paid vaccination. Healthcare professionals have a great responsibility for enlightening families on raising vaccination awareness and increasing vaccine acceptance rates among parents.","PeriodicalId":35553,"journal":{"name":"Turk hijiyen ve deneysel biyoloji dergisi. Turkish bulletin of hygiene and experimental biology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70677652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The effect of urinary catheter care bundle compliance on catheter-associated urinary tract infections","authors":"Tuğba Yanık Yalçın, Ç. Erol, Fatma Irem Yesiler, Burcu Gönülal, Saliha Aydın","doi":"10.5505/turkhijyen.2022.79990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5505/turkhijyen.2022.79990","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: Healthcare-associated infections (HAI) are a global problem of increasing importance all over the world. HAI’s, Results: Urinary catheter care bundle compliance and standardized infection rates (SIR) of CA-UTI were assessed between June 2015 and December 2020. In 2015, bundle compliance was 0.80 (0.75-0.83), 0.88 (0.84-0.90) in 2016, 0.89 (0.87-0.91) in 2017, 0.90 (0.88-0.91) in 2018, 0.88 (0.85-0.89) in 2019, and 0.87 (0.84-0.88) in 2020. CA-UTI SIRs were 4.06 in 2015, 2.91 in 2016, 2.3 in 2017, 1.52 in 2018, 1.74 in 2019, and 2.81 in 2020. When the effect of the urinary catheter care bundle (in the years 2015-2018) is analyzed, it corresponds to a reduction of approximately 60%. “Catheter cleaning twice a day with a soapy sponge” was found to have the lowest compliance across all years. Conclusion: We observed that as bundle compliance increased, our CA-UTI rate decreased. However, the fact that our SIR values are >1 indicates that our infection control measures are inadequate. These findings imply that bundle components should be reviewed and/or that bundle compliance observation is lacking. Bundles can be used as an incentive to provide consistent and disciplined maintenance, but they are only one component of a larger improvement strategy. While main infection control systems (such as isolation, surveillance, and hand hygiene) are in routine, bundle applications should be integrated into these systems.","PeriodicalId":35553,"journal":{"name":"Turk hijiyen ve deneysel biyoloji dergisi. Turkish bulletin of hygiene and experimental biology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70677739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The importance of health literacy in cancer awareness","authors":"Ferda Gültop, S. Özkan","doi":"10.5505/turkhijyen.2022.02779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5505/turkhijyen.2022.02779","url":null,"abstract":"This digest was prepared to draw attention to the importance of health literacy in cancer awareness, relationship between cancer awareness and health literacy is examined in view of current information. Cancer ranks the second among the causes of death in our country and in the world. In the highly globalizing World, due to the population increase accompanied by aging, an increase in cancer disease is observed. This causes physical, emotional, and financial burdens on social health systems, so, cancer remains a significant public health issue. According to a World Health Organization report, 9.6 million people worldwide died of cancer in 2018, or one in six people. Cancer, falls into the category of non-communicable disease, is a chronic disease that progresses slowly, lasts for a long time with treatment, and monitoring which disrupts the quality of life of persons. Early diagnosis of cancer by persons and society, and awareness of people about it, with adequate knowledge about what they must do are fundamental steps for cancer awareness. Cancer is socially considered a malignant disease and public awareness about it is based on health literacy. According to the “Turkish health literacy early diagnosis of cancer to start earlier treatment. In societies with insufficient health literacy levels, low health care and preventive health services, raise the rates of non-communicable diseases, premature deaths. Because of negative social health provisions health care expenses increase. Countries should implement strategies for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment by raising cancer awareness, since cancer is a serious threat to public health. In this context, information is available concerning the effectiveness of various intervention programs aiming individuals’ own health to respect and improve their health by self-protection. Developing social awareness in health using various methods with correct steps will be effective in achieving a reasonable increase in the level of health literacy. Primarily the level of health literacy will be determined and following activities will constitute the pathfinder in terms of quality and quantity.It is obvious that in societies with a high level of health literacy, existence of higher awareness of cancer is a fact. To increase public health literacy level and cancer awareness, primarily health service providers, receivers of this service, and, other social institutions should share responsibilities in developing various methods of intervention.","PeriodicalId":35553,"journal":{"name":"Turk hijiyen ve deneysel biyoloji dergisi. Turkish bulletin of hygiene and experimental biology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70675514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"COVID-19 Costs: An Example of Province in Turkey","authors":"Hüseyin Aslan, Ismail Simsir, Elif Köse, Gülsen Topaktaş","doi":"10.5505/turkhijyen.2022.17048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5505/turkhijyen.2022.17048","url":null,"abstract":"INTRODUCTION: The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to negatively affect Turkey, as it does many other areas all over the world. One effect of COVID 19 has been the significant expenditure increases in health services in post-pandemic countries. Our aim for this study was the following: determining the frequency of outpatient, inpatient, and intensive care treatment in COVID 19 cases, the factors affecting the rates of inpatient and, intensive care treatments, and examining the changes in healthcare costs according to patient characteristics. METHODS: This research is a cross-sectional record review. The universe of this study is composed of outpatients and inpatients that have been treated after being diagnosed with COVID 19 as from March 11, the date the pandemic was first seen in Turkey, to November 30, 2020. Within the scope of the study, data relating to the COVID-19 diagnosis, comorbidity, age (< 50 and 50), and gender were obtained from all primary, secondary, and tertiary healthcare institutions in the province. RESULTS: When the invoices of the inpatients who received no intensive care treatment were examined, it was found that the bills of the male patients aged 50 years and older and those with comorbidities were statistically significantly higher. In the patient groups receiving both clinical and intensive care, the mean amount of invoices of female patients and those aged 50 and older were found to be higher than male patients (p < 0.05). In addition to, In all other patient groups, it has been determined that the invoice amounts are below the patient costs, that is, the invoice amounts do not cover the patient cost. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: The disease is more severe in those aged 50 and older, those with comorbidities, and it is more severe and more common in males. Consequently, bill amounts and costs of these patients were found to be higher than those of the opposing groups. As a result, the rate of men getting the COVID-19 disease is higher than women. The disease is more severe in males in hospitalized patients, in 50 age group, and in patients with comorbidities. In parallel with these, the invoice amounts and costs of these patients are higher than the opposite groups. In general, the treatment costs of the patients are higher than the invoice amounts and they carry great risks for the future in ensuring the sustainability of the service. Ensuring sustainability in healthcare services depends on the ability of healthcare institutions to obtain invoices to cover their costs. COVID-19 not only creates a big economic burden for reimbursement institutions but also brings a great economic burden for the institutions that provide the service.","PeriodicalId":35553,"journal":{"name":"Turk hijiyen ve deneysel biyoloji dergisi. Turkish bulletin of hygiene and experimental biology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70675522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effects of thiamine deficiency exposed during prenatal and lactation on behaviour, learning and memory in adulthood","authors":"Betul Danısman, G. Akcay, Deniz KANTAR GÖK","doi":"10.5505/turkhijyen.2022.22120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5505/turkhijyen.2022.22120","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35553,"journal":{"name":"Turk hijiyen ve deneysel biyoloji dergisi. Turkish bulletin of hygiene and experimental biology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70675825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"HBsAg, Anti-HBs, Anti-HCV and Anti-HIV seroprevalence among patients admitted to our hospital; five-year retrospective data","authors":"Havva Avcıküçük, D. Dülger, Feray Aydin, Ümmü Sena Sarı","doi":"10.5505/turkhijyen.2022.67355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5505/turkhijyen.2022.67355","url":null,"abstract":"immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections are important health problems in our country as well as all over the world. We aimed to investigate the distribution of seropositivity of HBsAg, anti-HBs, anti-HCV anti-HCV and anti-HIV positivity were 2.3 % (1,808/77,562), 46.6% (20,975/45,045), 0.6% (456/73,223) and 0.05% (35/71,061) respectively. Of the 1,808 patients were positive for HBsAg, 55% were males, 45% were females. Of the 456 anti-HCV positive patients, 63.6% were females and 36.4% were males. When assessed by age groups, HBsAg positivity was found to be the highest in the age group 31-50 (38.1%) and lowest in the age group ≤ 18 (0.6%). Anti-HCV positivity was found to be the highest in the age group ≥65 (32%) and lowest in the age group ≤ 18 (2%). All patients who were found to be anti-HIV positive were male and the highest positivity rate was between the ages of 19-30. Conclusion: Our HBsAg, anti-HBS, anti-HCV and anti-HIV results were found to be similar with the country statistical data. There was significant difference in the seropositivity of HBsAg ( p <0,001), anti-HCV ( p <0,05) and anti-HIV ( p <0,001) during the measurement period.","PeriodicalId":35553,"journal":{"name":"Turk hijiyen ve deneysel biyoloji dergisi. Turkish bulletin of hygiene and experimental biology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70676969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A soft tissue infection case due to Pasteurella multocida that developed after a dog bite","authors":"Ferhan Korkmaz, Gülen GÜLOĞLU ÇAMAŞ, Y. Tanrıverdi Çaycı","doi":"10.5505/turkhijyen.2022.67790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5505/turkhijyen.2022.67790","url":null,"abstract":"Pasteurella multocida (PM) is a gram negative coccobacillus which is frequently isolated from oropharyngeal secretions of domestic animals such as cats and dogs. For typical isolates from propable sources such as cat bite or scratch, the presence of indole-positive and oxidase-positive, gram-negative bacilli, non-growing on MacConkey agar, is usually sufficient for identification of Pasteurella multocida . Both animal bites and scratches typically cause soft tissue infections which tend to have favorable outcomes with appropriate medical treatment, however, they may also cause serious clinical conditions such as osteomyelitis, pneumonia, endocarditis, sepsis and meningitis. In this article, a case of soft tissue infection due to Pasteurella multocida in a 61 year- old diabetic female who had a history of dog bite on her left leg, was presented in the light of the literature.","PeriodicalId":35553,"journal":{"name":"Turk hijiyen ve deneysel biyoloji dergisi. Turkish bulletin of hygiene and experimental biology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70677001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"e-Health literacy scale: Turkish validity and reliability study for adults over 45","authors":"E. Uskun, Edanur Dogan, Özgür Önal, A. Kişioğlu","doi":"10.5505/turkhijyen.2022.75608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5505/turkhijyen.2022.75608","url":null,"abstract":"ÖZET Amaç: Günümüzde sağlık bilgilerinin elektronik ortamlarda giderek artan paylaşımı, bireylerin sağlıkla ilgili bilgiye ulaşma ve karar alma süreçlerini, e-sağlık okuryazarlığı düzeyine göre değişen oranda etkiler hale gelmiştir. Bu çalışma, Norman ve Skinner’in “e-Sağlık Okuryazarlığı Ölçeği”nin (e-Health Literacy) Türkçeye uyarlanması ve geçerlik ve güvenirliğinin değerlendirilmesi amacıyla gerçekleştirilmiştir.","PeriodicalId":35553,"journal":{"name":"Turk hijiyen ve deneysel biyoloji dergisi. Turkish bulletin of hygiene and experimental biology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70677423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Seropositivity of HBsAg, Anti-HBs, Anti-HCV and Anti-HIV in patients admitted to Siirt Training and Research Hospital","authors":"Osman Özüdoğru, Ö. Acer","doi":"10.5505/turkhijyen.2022.89804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5505/turkhijyen.2022.89804","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35553,"journal":{"name":"Turk hijiyen ve deneysel biyoloji dergisi. Turkish bulletin of hygiene and experimental biology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70678063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Measuring Level Of Information And Demand Of Users About The Content Of Drug Or Food Supplements","authors":"Vildan Özcan, A. A. Sakul, H. Özbek","doi":"10.5505/turkhijyen.2022.12269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5505/turkhijyen.2022.12269","url":null,"abstract":"ÖZET Amaç: İlaçların ve gıda takviyelerinin prospektüslerine bakıldığında içeriklerinin kullanıcıya tam olarak aksettirilmediği görülmektedir. Bu nedenle ilaç veya gıda takviyesi kullanacak kişi, bunların içeriğinde kendi inanç ve kültürüne uygun olmayan bir madde olup olmadığı hakkında güvenilir bir bilgiye erişme imkanına sahip olamamakta; böyle bir şeyi arzu etse dahi bu bilgilere nereden erişeceği konusunda yeterli bir bilgiye ulaşamamaktadır. İnternet ortamındaki bilgiler ise genel itibariyle bilimsel yeterlilikten yoksun, yeterli bir denetimden geçmemiş bir bilgi kirliliği görünümü arz etmektedir. Bu çalışmanın amacı ilaç ve gıda takviyesi ürünlerin içeriklerinin kullanıcıların kendi ihtiyaçları doğrultusunda şeffaflaştırılması hususundaki düşünce ve tercihlerini belirlemektir.","PeriodicalId":35553,"journal":{"name":"Turk hijiyen ve deneysel biyoloji dergisi. Turkish bulletin of hygiene and experimental biology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70675344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}