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Öğe Assessment of nutritional status, health perception, and adaptation to aging in older adults: A path analysis(John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2025) Erkal, Emre; Erdem, EsmaObjective: This study aimed to evaluate the nutritional status, perceived health, and adaptation to aging of older adults and to examine the relationships among these variables. Methods: This descriptive, cross-sectional study included 386 older adults receiving care at the outpatient clinics of a public hospital in northeastern Turkey. Data were collected using a sociodemographic questionnaire, the Standardised Mini-Mental State Examination, the Mini Nutritional Assessment–Short Form (MNA-SF), the Perception of Health Scale, and the Assessment Scale of Adaptation Difficulty for the Elderly. Statistical analyses included independent samples t-tests, one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation analysis, and path analysis. Results: The mean MNA-SF score was 11.52 ± 1.96; the mean health perception score was 48.07 ± 5.53; and the mean adaptation difficulty score was 0.99 ± 0.04. Health perception significantly predicted adaptation difficulty in older adults. MNA-SF scores varied significantly by age, body mass index (BMI), marital status, place of residence, and regular medication use (p < 0.01). Similarly, health perception scores differed significantly based on age, BMI, place of residence, educational level, income status, and the presence of chronic disease (p < 0.05). Adaptation difficulty scores also showed significant variation by age (p < 0.001). Conclusion: The findings revealed that 38.6% of participants were at risk of malnutrition, while 3.9% were malnourished. Although participants' overall health perception was moderate, their adaptation to aging was generally high. A more positive health perception was associated with better adaptation to aging. Targeted health and nutrition programs are recommended for high-risk groups, particularly older adults with lower socioeconomic status or those residing in rural areas.Öğe Determination of individuals’ attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccines and health fatalism: A cross-sectional study from Turkey(UNIV INDONESIA, 2023) Erkal, Emre; Demirkıran, Bedriye Cansu; Köleoğlu, Şerife; Demir Çam, SevgiBackground: 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 & PLUSMN; 1.14, mean negative attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccine score of 3.44 & PLUSMN; 0.91, and mean health fatalism score of 45.75 & PLUSMN; 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.Öğe Determination of stigma and attitude in relatives of patients with epilepsy(W.B. Saunders Ltd, 2024) Erkal, Emre; Kıyak, Emine; Üren, Yavuz; Milanlioğlu, AyselPurpose: This study was conducted to determine stigma and attitudes in the relatives of patients with epilepsy and the factors affecting them. Methods: This descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted with 173 relatives of patients with epilepsy who were admitted to the neurology outpatient clinic of a university hospital in Van Province, eastern Turkey, between April and December 2021. Individual information forms, the Epilepsy Stigma Scale Patient's Relative, and the Epilepsy Attitude Scale were used to collect the data. Results: The mean stigma score was 54.58 (standard deviation [SD] = 10.96), and the mean attitude score was 53.05 (SD = 8.14). A negative and significant correlation was found between stigma score and attitude score (r = -0.457, p < 0.001). It was found that stigma and attitude scores differed significantly in terms of education, hiding epilepsy, and the idea that epilepsy is related to spiritual thoughts (p < 0.05). Conclusion: As a result of this study, it was found that the relatives of patients with epilepsy were generally moderately stigmatized (64.8 %) and had moderate attitudes toward epilepsy. As the stigma increased in the participants, it was determined that they showed more negative attitudes toward epilepsy. The results indicated that relatives of patients with epilepsy who had one or more seizures per month experienced more stigma, and relatives of patients with epilepsy who did not take their medication regularly exhibited a more negative attitude toward epilepsy.Öğe Determining individuals? Attitudes toward cancer screening and their inflluential factors br(Univ Indonesiadirectorate Research & Public, 2022) Erkal, EmreBackground: Cancer screenings are of great importance for the early detection of cancer. The goal of this study is to determine the attitudes of individuals toward cancer screening and the factors affecting these attitudes. Methods: This descriptive, cross-sectional study comprised 1059 participants who were living in Turkey. The participants were recruited through the snowball sampling method between December 6 and 24, 2021. The Individual Self-Assessment Form and Attitude Scale for Cancer Screening were used to collect data. The data were analyzed by using independent samples t-test, one-way ANOVA, and Pearson's correlation analysis. Results: The mean score of the participants' attitude toward cancer screening was 94.57 +/- 18.39. Age, gender, marital status, place of residence, family type, occupation, social security, income, and educational level had a significant effect on the participants' attitude score (p < 0.05). Furthermore, the attitude score was significantly affected by cancer screening information; early cancer screening; and the beliefs that early cancer detection is achievable and that cancer is a preventable and treatable disease (p < 0.001). Conclusions: Individuals have a positive attitude toward cancer screening. Health professionals should inform individuals who have a negative attitude toward cancer screening.Öğe Evaluation of attitudes toward epilepsy and health fatalism in northeastern Turkey(Academic Press Inc, 2020) Kıyak, Emine; Erkal, Emre; Demir, Sevgi; Demirkıran, Bedriye Cansu; Üren, Yavuz; Ergüney, SeherPurpose: This study was carried out to identify the attitudes toward epilepsy, health fatalism, and the factors affecting these in individuals living in Artvin in the northeast of Turkey. Method: This descriptive and cross-sectional study involved 1443 healthy individuals at a hospital in Artvin in northeastern Turkey between January and March 2020. An individual information form, an epilepsy attitude scale, and a religious health fatalism scale were used to assess their views. An independent sample t-test, Mann–Whitney U test, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), and Pearson correlation analysis were used to analyze the data. Results: The mean score of participants' attitudes on epilepsy was 48.17 (standard deviation (SD) = 12.93), while the mean of their health fatalism score was 48.43 (SD = 17.41). There was a significant negative correlation between attitude scores and health fatalism (r = ?0.084, p = 0.001). Significant differences were found among attitude, health fatalism mean scores, and misconceptions associated with religion about epilepsy being a contagious, psychiatric, and incurable disease that should be hidden. Significant differences were additionally observed among attitude, health fatalism mean scores, and education, marital status, income, employment status, and presence of chronic disease (p < 0.05). Conclusion: It was found that most individuals had moderate level attitude toward epilepsy and had high health fatalism. Individuals with a high degree of health fatalism were found to have more negative attitude toward epilepsy. Attitude was found to be more negative, and health fatalism was found to be higher in individuals with low education level, low-income level, who were married, who were unemployed, who had a chronic disease, and in those who thought epilepsy was a contagious, psychiatric, and incurable disease associated with religion that should be hidden. Implications: It is recommended that health professionals organize training programs to increase public understanding of epilepsy, improving individual attitudes toward the condition, and minimizing health fatalismÖğe Evaluation of malpractice fear, burnout, and spiritual well-being among physicians in Turkey: A descriptive study(Springer, 2024) Kaya, Burak; Erkal, EmreThis descriptive study was conducted with 406 physicians to evaluate fear of malpractice, burnout and spiritual well-being among physicians in Turkey. In our study, 81.5%, 11.6% and 6.9% of physicians experienced high, medium and low levels of fear of malpractice, emotional burnout, depersonalisation and personal accomplishment, respectively. However, physicians reported high levels of spiritual well-being and harmony with nature, moderate levels of transcendence and anomie. As spiritual well-being and transcendence increased, emotional burnout and depersonalisation decreased and personal accomplishment increased. In addition, as harmony with nature increased, depersonalisation decreased and personal accomplishment increased, and as anomie increased, emotional burnout and depersonalisation increased.Öğe Gynecological cancer awareness and determination of healthy lifestyle levels among women in Türkiye(WILEY, 2025) Kaloğlu Binici, Dilek; Erkal, Emre; Avcı, AycanObjective: This study aimed to assess gynecological cancer awareness and healthy lifestyle levels among women in Türkiye.Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional design was applied with 656 women from various Turkish regions. Data were collectedusing a sociodemographic form, the Gynecological Cancer Awareness Scale, and the Healthy Lifestyle Screening Scale.Results: The median gynecological cancer awareness score was 147.00, and the median healthy lifestyle score was 95.00. A positive,significant correlation was found between awareness and healthy lifestyle scores (r s = 0.359; p < 0.001). Awareness differedsignificantly by education, employment, motherhood, gynecological examination and Pap smear frequency, cancer knowledge,fear of cancer, and age (p < 0.05). Healthy lifestyle scores were significantly related to income, smoking, perceived health, andregular exercise (p < 0.05).Conclusions: Women generally demonstrated above-average gynecological cancer awareness, and higher awareness was linkedto healthier lifestyles. Overall, 1.2% had a very low, 14.6% low, 75.9% good, and 8.3% very good healthy lifestyle level. These findingssuggest that nurses should implement educational and counseling programs to enhance women’s gynecological cancer awarenessand promote healthy lifestyle behaviors.Öğe The relationship between attitude toward intimate partner violence and self-confidence among students of a university vocational school of health services(Kare Publishing, 2022) Tan, Kübra; Akay, Gamze; Erkal, EmreObjectives: This study was designed to determine which factors affected the self-confidence and attitude toward intimate partner violence among university students and the correlation between the level of self-confidence and attitude toward intimate partner violence. Methods: A total of 1125 students at the vocational school for health professions of a public university were enrolled in this descriptive study. A personal information form, the Intimate Partner Violence Attitude Scale-Revised (IPVAS) and the Self-Confidence Scale (SCS) were administered to collect data. The methods of analysis used were the independent sample t-test, the Mann-Whitney U test, one-way analysis of variance, Pearson correlation analysis, and linear regression analysis. Results: The mean age of the students 20.73±1.79 years, the mean IPVAS score was 46.86±8.52, and the mean SCS score was 126.59±25.70. There was a significant negative correlation between the scale scores (r=-0.287; p<0.001). Low self-confidence was a predictor of a more accepting attitude toward intimate partner violence. A number of sociodemographic variables were observed to have an impact on the assessment scores. Conclusion: Students with greater self-confidence displayed a more negative attitude toward intimate partner violence, while students who had less self-confidence indicated a more accepting or condoning attitude towards intimate partner violence. Initiatives to educate students about the negative effects of violence in relationships as well as efforts to increase self-confidence can serve as preventive measures and valuable trainingÖğe Sağlık hizmetleri meslek yüksekokulu öğrencilerinin kardiyovasküler hastalık risk faktörlerine ilişkin bilgi düzeylerinin belirlenmesi: Artvin Çoruh Üniversitesi örneği(İnönü Üniversitesi, 2020) Erkal, Emre; Demir, SevgiBu çalışma, sağlık hizmetleri meslek yüksekokulu öğrencilerinin kardiyovasküler hastalıkların risk faktörlerine yönelik bilgi düzeylerini ve bilgi düzeylerinin bazı değişkenlere göre farklılık gösterip göstermediğini belirlemek amacıyla yapıldı. Tanımlayıcı olarak yapılan çalışmanın örneklemini bir devlet üniversitesinin sağlık hizmetleri meslek yüksekokulunda öğrenim gören 851 öğrenci oluşturdu. Veriler, Tanıtıcı Bilgi Formu ve Kardiyovasküler Hastalıklar Risk Faktörleri Bilgi Düzeyi (KARRİF-BD) Ölçeği ile toplandı. Verilerin istatistiksel analizinde One Way Anova, t-testi, Kruskal Wallis varyans analizi ve Mann Whitney U analizi kullanıldı. Araştırmadaki öğrencilerin yaş ortalaması 20.43±1.90 yıl olup KARRİF-BD ölçeği puan ortalaması 18.05±5.07‘dir. Acil ve ilk yardım programında öğrenim gören, il merkezinde yaşayan, sosyal güvencesi olan, geliri giderine eşit, kronik hastalığı olan ve ailede kalp damar hastalığı bulunan öğrencilerin puan ortalamasının önemli bir şekilde yüksek olduğu tespit edildi (p<0.05). Araştırma sonuçları sağlık hizmetleri meslek yüksekokulunda öğrenim gören öğrencilerin kardiyovasküler hastalık risk faktörlerine ilişkin bilgi düzeylerinin orta düzeyde olduğunu ve öğrenim gördüğü bölüm, yaşadığı yer, sosyal güvencesinin olması, ekonomik durum, kronik hastalık bulunma ve ailede kalp damar hastalığı varlığı değişkenlerine göre farklılık gösterdiğini göstermektedir. Bu kapsamda öğrencilere kardiyovasküler hastalık risk faktörleri hakkında daha fazla bilgi verilmesi önerilmektedir.Öğe Social stigma toward substance use disorders: a cross-sectional study in Turkey(Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2025) Erkal, Emre; Kaya, Burak; Koyunoğlu, CansuObjective: This study was conducted to determine the social stigma toward substance use disorders in Turkey. Methods: This descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted with 3,130 participants in Turkey. The Sociodemographic Information Form and the Public Stigma toward Substance Use Disorder Scale were used to collect data. Multiple linear regression analysis was utilized to analyze the research data. Results: The mean stigmatization score of the participants was 93.56 ± 21.74. The findings showed that living in a nuclear family, working in the labor or private sector, not using alcohol, and the presence of individuals with substance use disorder in the social environment were associated with the stigma score by 4% (p <.05). Conclusions: It was found that participants were highly stigmatized due to substance use disorders. It was found that those living in nuclear families, workers and those working in the private sector, those who do not use alcohol, and those who do not have a substance use disorder in their social environment stigmatize individuals with substance use disorders more. In order to reduce social stigmatization associated with substance use disorders, it is recommended to give importance to education, provide supportive services, promote social acceptance, and implement appropriate policies and legal frameworks.Öğe The relationship between attitudes toward epilepsy and health literacy in Turkey: The mediating role of epilepsy knowledge(W.B. Saunders Ltd, 2025) Erkal, EmreObjective: This study determined the mediating role of knowledge about epilepsy in the relationship between attitudes toward epilepsy and health literacy in Turkey. Methods: This descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted in Turkey with 4,393 participants. The sociodemographic form, Epilepsy Attitude Scale, Epilepsy Knowledge Scale, and Health Literacy Scale were used for data collection. Results: The participants’ mean attitude score was 57.05 ± 10.15, mean knowledge score was 7.70 ± 4.22, and mean health literacy score was 51.95 ± 9.61. Health literacy scores significantly predicted attitude (β = 0.498) and knowledge (β = 0.382) scores (p < 0.05). Knowledge scores significantly predicted attitude scores (β = 0.529; p < 0.05). However, health literacy (β = 0.346) and knowledge scores (β = 0.397) together significantly predicted attitude scores (p < 0.05). The knowledge score has a mediating role between health literacy and attitude score (β = 0.152; p < 0.05). Conclusion: Individuals had relatively positive attitudes toward epilepsy and moderate levels of knowledge and health literacy. Health literacy positively affected knowledge and attitude towards epilepsy. However, knowledge about epilepsy also positively affected attitude. Additionally, health literacy and knowledge of epilepsy together positively affected attitudes toward epilepsy. Knowledge about epilepsy mediated the relationship between health literacy and attitude toward epilepsy. In this context, it is recommended that programs to raise awareness and improve health literacy be organized, social sensitivity should be increased, and additional epilepsy research should be conducted.Öğe Yaşlı bakımı programında öğrenim gören öğrencilerde akran desteği yaşlı ayrımcılığına ilişkin tutumu etkiler mi?(Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi, 2022) Demir Çam, Sevgi; Erkal, Emre; Demirkıran, Bedriye CansuAmaç: Bu çalışma yaşlı bakım programında öğrenim gören öğrencilerin yaşlı ayrımcılığına ilişkin tutumlarını, akran desteğini etkileyen faktörleri belirlemek ve akran desteğinin yaşlı ayrımcılığına yönelik etkisini değerlendirmek amacıyla yapıldı. Yöntem: Tanımlayıcı olarak yürütülen bu çalışma bir üniversitenin iki farklı birimindeki yaşlı bakımı programında öğrenim gören 223 öğrenci ile yapıldı. Araştırma verilerinin toplanmasında öğrenci tanılama formu, yaşlı ayrımcılığı tutum ve akran desteği ölçekleri kullanıldı. Verilerin analizinde bağımsız örneklem t testi, tek yönlü varyans analizi, pearson korelasyon analizi ve linear regresyon analizi kullanıldı. Bulgular: Öğrencilerin yaş ortalamasının 20.92±2.01, yaşlı ayrımcılığı tutum puan ortalamasının 81.27±13.12, akran desteği puan ortalamasının 44.78±12.53 olduğu tespit edildi. Yaşlı ayrımcılığı tutum puanı ile akran desteği puanı arasında pozitif yönlü anlamlı korelasyon olduğu saptandı (r=0.139, p=0.038). Akran desteği puanının tutum puanı üzerinde düşük düzey yordayıcı olduğu bulundu. Sonuç: Öğrencilerin yaşlı ayrımcılığına ilişkin tutumlarının olumlu, akran desteğinin orta düzey olduğu ve akran desteği fazla olan öğrencilerin daha olumlu bir tutum sergiledikleri bulundu. Akran desteğinin düşük düzeyde yaşlı ayrımcılığına ilişkin tutumu etkilediği bulundu.
