Authors:Melahat KIZIL Abstract: Objectives: Many studies have shown that people applying cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) cannot make sustained and effective CPR due to fatigue, sweaty hands, broken ribs, inability to determine the correct area etc. Thus, this study aimed to determine the effectiveness and sustainability of CPR quality using a CPR manikin by following the 2015 CPR guidelines.Material and Method: This study was carried out with 153 student volunteers from seven different health sciences programmes at Izmir University of Economics. All students were trained in first aid and basic life support in the previous school academic year. The time and effectiveness of CPR applied on a CPR manikin (Ambu® Manikin) were measured. The students’ body positioning, blowing capacities, depth of pressures and effective pressure durations were evaluated and numerical data were analysed by t-test. P-value <0.05 was accepted as statistically significant. Data were analysed using SPSS version 21.Results: Of the 153 student volunteers, 60.1% were female and 39.9% were male. The average student age was 20.32 ± 03 years, the average height was 169.20 ± 26 cm and the average weight was 65.12 ± 42 kg. The average effective CPR duration was 2.95 ± 0.86 min, the average pressure depth was 4.33 cm and the average depth of pressures and effective pressure was 0.6 liters. The position of the arms was correct in 83% of the students. In 81% of the cases, the application site was correctly determined. Moreover, 68.6% of the students were able to sustain the pumping activity of the heart. In all parameters other than the arms position, male students had better results than female students. CPR is a very important live-saving method to increase the chance of survival. However, this practice is ineffective unless applied correctly and timely.Conclusion: This study showed that manual chest compression on the manikin became ineffective in both speed and effectiveness just within minutes. This shows that there is a very important deficiency in this area where human life depends on minutes. Thus, developing and commissioning auxiliary external chest compression device that can perform CPR, especially in pre-hospital setting, ambulance and emergency departments, is important. PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +030
Authors:Adile NEŞE; Reva GÜNDOĞAN Abstract: Objective: This study was conducted to determine the effects of occupational anxiety levels on the job satisfaction of pre-hospital emergency medical service professionals.Materials and Methods: The study was conducted as an online survey application with a total of 72 pre-hospital healthcare professionals, 29 of whom were Emergency Medical Technicians and 43 Paramedics, who worked in the field in Adıyaman Provincial Ambulance Service and agreed to participate in the study. In the research, the "Person Information Form", "Occupational Anxiety Scale for Emergency Medical Service Professionals" and "Minnesota Job Satisfaction Scale" were used as data collection tools. Data from the study were analyzed by utilizing SPSS v. 25.00 computer program.Results: The participants' total mean score of the Minnesota Job Satisfaction Scale's subscale of intrinsic was found as 2.99±0.72, the subscale of extrinsic was determined as 2.50±0.86, and the Minnesota Job Satisfaction Scale's total mean score was calculated as 2.79±0.73. The Occupational Anxiety Scale for Emergency Medical Service Professionals' total mean score was found as 86.11±18.15. It was determined that the Minnesota Job Satisfaction Scale total mean scores of the female, paramedic, married, and 18-25-year-olds who participated in the study were higher than the other healthcare professionals who participated in the research.Conclusion: It was concluded that the occupational satisfaction total mean score of the healthcare professionals was low, and the level of anxiety was high. Determining the factors affecting the occupational satisfaction of healthcare professionals and providing the necessary solutions are important in reducing the anxiety level of healthcare professionals. PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +030
Authors:Elif KILIÇ GÜNER; Özge AKBABA, Elanur YILMAZ KARABULUTLU, Havva ÖZTÜRK Abstract: Objective: The aim of the study is to determine the anxiety levels and associated factors related to professional life of first and emergency aid students who have been unable to practice in the clinical setting during the pandemic.Method: The population of this cross-sectional descriptive study consisted of students studying in the first and emergency aid programs at three different universities. The study was conducted with 379 students who agreed to participate in the research between January 2020 and March 2020, but without sample selection. Data were collected online using the Personal Information Form and Occupational Anxiety Scale for Emergency Medical Service Professionals. The questionnaires were administered to students online. Data were analysed with the Statistical Package for Social Sciences 25 software, and number, percentage, mean, standard deviation and independent-sample t-test were used in the evaluation.Results: Students’ mean score from the Occupational Anxiety Scale was 3.32±0.84. The anxiety scores of females, second-year students, those not feeling ready to start working, those who think that they will experience fear while giving the patient medical attention, who think that distance education affects professional knowledge adversely, those who are afraid to perform a specific clinical practice, and those who are afraid to have a negative experience, were found to be statistically significantly higher (p<0.05).Conclusion: It was determined that the students' anxiety regarding professional life was at a moderate level, that they did not feel ready to start the profession and they experienced professional fears due to having been unable to make clinical practice during the pandemic period. PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +030
Authors:Ahu SEZGİN; Gizem İrem KINIKLI, Merve KASİKCİ Abstract: Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the simulated patient application used in the in-service training programs of prehospital emergency health care personnel in emergency case management.Materials and Methods: The research was carried out with 198 participants who were invited to in-service modules of training held at the Simulation Center between March 2020-2022. Data were collected by using the Personal Information Form, Simulated Patient Practice Effectiveness Scale, Simulation Design Scale, and Student Satisfaction and Self-Confidence Scale in Learning.Results: According to the findings, the mean score of the Simulated Patient Practice Efficiency Scale was determined as 114.3±14.4, the total score of the Simulation Design Scale was 4.1, and the total score of the Student Satisfaction and Self-Confidence Scale in Learning was 50.5±8.4. No statistically significant differences were found between gender variable and their level of self-efficacy (p>0.04); occupational groups and their level of self-efficacy (p>0.182). A statistically significant difference was found between the age variable and the Student Satisfaction in Learning and Self-Confidence Scale and Simulation Design Scale scores (p<0.001) when comparing occupational anxiety levels between genders (p<0.001). The simulation design determined that student satisfaction and self-confidence were a parameter that predicted 59% of the efficiency in the simulated patient application.Conclusion: In the in-service training programs of pre-hospital emergency health care workers, our suggestion is to use simulation-based teaching methods to improve the professional self-efficacy of the participants and reduce their anxiety levels. PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +030
Authors:Şükran BALKANER; Gül Özlem YILDIRIM Abstract: Transport of critically ill patients is very risky and difficult. This situation becomes even more important in specific patient groups diagnosed with COVID-19. Transport of COVID-19 suspected/diagnosed patients should be performed in accordance with “transport principles of critical patient” with infectious disease. It has become even more important than before the pandemic that the parties involved in the patient transport process draw clear road maps, accurately identify suspected/diagnosed COVID-19 cases, use existing resources in the most effective way, and reduce the risks to pre-hospital emergency health personnel. During transportation, continuous monitoring of the vital functions of critically ill patients, organization of the necessary equipment and personnel to intervene in risky situations, provision of personal protective equipment to the personnel, disinfection and decontamination of the ambulance are of great importance for the safety of patients and pre-hospital emergency health personnel. In this review, it is focused on how to transfer special patient groups with COVID-19 and what to pay attention to. PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +030
Authors:Mehmet ALTUNTAŞ; Galip USTA, Gökhan ERSUNAN, Uçar KÜÇÜK, Abdullah Osman KOÇAK Abstract: Objectives: While higher education institutions were looking for a solution to the problems with distance education, students' perceptions of distance education became a matter of curiosity. This study was conducted to evaluate the students' attitudes studying in the First and Emergency Aid Program towards distance education. Materials and Methods: The research was conducted with the students studying in the First and Emergency Aid Program in the spring semester of the 2019-2020 academic year. In this multicenter study, the "Attitude Scale towards Distance Education" was used. Results: Nine hundred forty-eight students who voluntarily participated in the study answered the questions comprehensively. It was determined that the attitude level of male students (26.4%) participating (m=92.00) was moderate, and the level of attitude of female students (73.6%) (m=81.00) was low (p PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +030
Authors:Mahmut BELER; İsmail UYSAL, Ali AKGÜN Abstract: Objective: This study was conducted to examine the Facebook addiction of associate degree students in terms of related variables and to determine their Facebook addiction levels.Material and Methods: The universe of this descriptive and analytical research consists of health care vocational school students at a state university. As a data collection tool, a descriptive information form consisting of 12 questions on the age, gender, class, department, the number of friends on Facebook, the number of friends in daily life, how long they spend time on Facebook, was used by the researchers. The “Facebook Addiction Scale” consisting of 18 questions, which can be grouped under 6 factors (Excessive Use, Unable to Limit, Use for Mood Change, Relapse, Inability to Quit, Influence on the Flow of Life) was used in a 5-Likert type.Results: 51.8% of the research participants were girls and 85.7% were between the ages of 18-21. While 76.8% of the participants used Facebook with their own names, 64.3% of them spent less than one hour a day on Facebook, 48.2% connect to Facebook by mobile phone, 41.1% stated that they had more than 500 friends on Facebook. Those who also used applications other than Facebook were 94.6% and while applications such as Twitter, Instagram, Periscope were used, applications such as Linkedln and Myspace was not preferred. While the total score of the Facebook addiction scale was 34 on average, the subscale scores were quite low. Facebook addiction scale total scores were found to be significantly associated only with Facebook Usage years (r: 0.576, p<0.001) and Facebook daily average Usage (r: 0.815, p<001) hours (p<0.05).Conclusion: According to our study, Facebook addiction rates were found to be relatively less than the results of other studies in the literature. It is recommended that addiction to Facebook and other social media applications should be monitored periodically. PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +030
Authors:Samet ULAŞ Abstract: Pre-hospital emergency health services are health units that provide uninterrupted health service in case of need, and provide safe patient care by quickly starting the diagnosis, treatment and transport steps of the sick and injured. Although the convenience of technology is used in prehospital emergency health services, it is a fact that human labor and power cannot be denied. The fact that health workers enjoy their job and are satisfied with the health services they provide, is related to their job satisfaction levels. Taking measures to increase the job satisfaction of health professionals working in pre-hospital emergency health services will increase the quality of the service provided and the quality of life of the patient and the injured. There exist multiple factors affecting job satisfaction. In this study, it was aimed to determine the factors affecting the job satisfaction of health workers in pre-hospital emergency health services, by searching the literature. PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +030
Authors:Gökhan TENİKLER Abstract: Objective: It is aimed to analyze comparatively the levels of consideration and application of the relationship between disasters and the phenomenon of development, which is one of the first factors that come to mind in determining the level of success of disaster management, within the framework of the tradition of five-year development planning that has been put into practice since the 1960s, which represents the beginning of the "Planned Period" in Turkey and to evaluate the holistic relationship among the plans.Material and Methods: The relationship level between disasters and development were highlighted by scanning 30 selected words related to the phenomenon of disaster in 11 development plans, which are included in the system of the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey Strategy and Budget Department (access address: https://www.sbb.gov.tr), the institution responsible for planning at the national level in Turkey, and the contents of all development plans were analyzed in terms of their level of inclusion in disaster management policies in a comparative framework.Results: As a result of scanning the contents of 11 development plans in terms of issues related to disaster management, the number of development plans that included the provisions and evaluations of "Disaster Management" in planning at the national level under a separate heading is determined as 3. It is determined that the content of the remaining 8 development plans included independent or superficial statements about modern disaster management approaches. In the plans that regulate the issue of disaster management under a separate heading, it is observed that the phenomenon of disaster is also associated with other sectoral topics at varying levels. In these sectoral evaluations, it is determined that some concepts related to disaster are handled in a context that serves the economic development concern beyond the perception of risk and danger.Conclusion: The fact that the disaster phenomenon in Turkey has been neglected for many years in the national development plans, which are at the top of the planning hierarchy and form the basis for the preparation of other high and low-level plans, has adversely affected the level of success of administrative and legal acts at local, regional and national levels in both natural and human-made disasters. The integrity and continuity relationship between the plans remained at a low level in general. PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +030
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