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- Title
Kocaeli il merkezinde bulunan hastanelerde çalışan hemşirelerin zoonotik hastalıklar hakkındaki bilgi düzeylerinin belirlenmesi.
- Authors
TAŞTAN, Rüştü; ALTINTAŞ, Levent; CEVİZCİ, Sibel
- Abstract
Objective: Zoonotic diseases are public health problems on a global scale that threaten health socioeconomically. In the last quarter of the century, this problem has gained a huge ground in health care services, along with ever increasing new infectious diseases. Nurses are health employees who have a "role model" influence in a society and in providing health services. In this study, aimed to investigate the knowledge levels of nurses about sources, contagion and prevention precautions of zoonosis. Methods: This study was carried out with volunteer nurses who have worked in public and private hospitals in the center of Kocaeli province. The questionnaire consisting of 30 questions in descriptive type was implemented in 2012. The collected data were analyzed by using SPSS v.20 program. Results: Only 46% (n=550) of the nurses working in the hospitals participated in the study. Of the participants, 70% were in the 26-44 age group, and 67% were in the 1-5 years of duty. Most of the nurses (n=380) were university graduates and the rest were vocational high school for health graduates (n=155). Participants (45%) have known viruses mostly, followed bacteria and parasites (44%) as pathogenic agents. While most of the participants (73%) thought zoonotic diseases transmit from animal to humans, contrary to this, 68% thought zoonotic diseases transmit from humans to animals, and 16% believed that there was no transmission. In this study, among zoonotic diseases, except Salmonellosis, there was no statistical significance between educational levels and knowledge regarding the sources of contagion (P>0,05). Forty-one percent of the participants benefited from experts about health knowledge and 65% thought that health news were inadequate. Fifty-nine percent of nurses thought their zoonotic knowledge levels were inadequate, and 89% of them wanted to participate in vocational training. Zoonoses, which are a constant socioeconomic threat, are an important public health problem that harms human health in many ways. To overcome the problems of zoonotic diseases that threaten the work security of health employees and create a constant risk for the society, first of all, the education programs should be revised. Conclusion: The survey findings indicate that only interoccupational cooperation of physicians and veterinarians are not enough to solve problem of zoonotic diseases, which threaten the security of the health workers and harm the society from multiple dimensions. It is emphasized that effective constant vocational trainings, which nurses and other health workers also attend, should be organized with 'One Health' approach, for the permanent solution to the problem.
- Publication
Turkish Bulletin of Hygiene & Experimental Biology / Türk Hijyen ve Deneysel Biyoloji, 2016, Vol 73, Issue 4, p365
- ISSN
0377-9777
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5505/TurkHijyen.2016.62134