PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the stress experienced by parents during the pandemic and their cyberchondria. The research was carried out in a descriptive and cross-sectional manner.Design/methodology/approachThe sample of the research: living in Turkey and has created 432 parents with at least one child between the ages of 6 and 15. Participant information form, parental stress scale and cyberchondria scale were used in the study. Data were collected through online surveys between July 1, 2020, and August 31, 2020.FindingsIn the study, when the scores obtained from the Parental Stress Scale and the Cyberchondria Scale were compared with the demographic characteristics, a significant difference was found between gender, age, marital status, education level, economic status, number of children and presence of chronic diseases (p < 0.05). It was determined that there is a significant difference between the responses of the parents regarding the pandemic process and the Parental Stress Scale and the Cyberchondria Scale (p < 0.05). A positive significant correlation was found between the Parental Stress Scale and the total and subdimensions of the Cyberchondria Scale (p < 0.05).Research limitations/implicationsThe research was carried out with only parents with children between the ages of 6 and 15, but it reveals the stress and cyberchondria of the parents during the pandemic.Originality/valueThe results obtained reflect the factors affecting the stress and cyberchondria levels experienced by parents during the pandemic process. Also, as the stress of the parent's increases, it has seen that the level of cyberchondria increases in parallel.

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Objective: It's imperative that organizations that want to exist in the business world where competition is intense and that want to ensure should create a positive ethical climate perception. The aim of this study was to determine the level of perceptions of the ethical climate of nurses who work in a private hospital and to determine whether ethical climate perceptions differ according to demographic characteristics.Methods: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study. The study was conducted between July-September 2018 on 154 nurses working at two private hospitals (in Istanbul and Yalova). Research data were collected from nurses working in these hospitals. In data collection, Information Form and Hospital Ethical Climate Scale were used.Results: According to findings, it was determined that the ethical climate perception of the participants was generally positive. In dimensions, ethical climate perception was found most positive in patient dimension, while most negative in physicians dimension. At findings, the perception of ethical climate according to the gender of the participants differed statistically in the managers dimension and perception of ethical climate according to working time in hospital differed in patients dimension(p<0.05). Perception of ethical climate didn't differed significantly with age, educational and marital status of participants (p>0.05). Conclusions: It was determined that the hospital ethical climate perceptions of the nurses in the study were highly positive, and this perception was influenced by gender and the year of work. The subdimension, where the ethical climate perception was the most negative, was the physician dimension. It's thought that the results obtained can be a guide in supporting positive ethical behavior.

Bir yılı aşkın süredir dünya çapında yayılımını sürdüren bir pandemi haline gelen Covid-19 pandemisi, yalnızca toplumların beden sağlığını değil, ruh sağlığını da olumsuz şekilde etkilemektedir. Bu çalışmada, Covid-19 pandemi sürecinde hissedilen sağlık anksiyetesi ve algılanan yaşam doyumunun çeşitli değişkenler açısından incelenmesi ve birbirleriyle olan ilişkisinin değerlendirilmesi amaçlanmıştır. Buradan hareketle, mesaj ya da mail yolu ile çevrimiçi online anket ile 18-65 yaş arası 405 erişkine ulaşılmıştır. Verilerin toplanmasında, "Katılımcı Bilgi Formu", "Sağlık Anksiyetesi Ölçeği" ve "Yaşam Doyumu Ölçeği" kullanılmıştır. Veriler SPSS 20.0 programı ile değerlendirilmiştir. Katılımcıların 219 (%54,1)'u kadın, 186 (%45,9)'sı erkektir. Kadın katılımcıların sağlık anksiyetesi ölçek puanları erkek katılımcılardan yüksektir ve aralarında anlamlı fark bulunmuştur (p˂0,05). Katılımcılardan Covid-19 tanısı almış olanların yaşam doyumu tanı almayanlara göre daha düşük olduğu saptanmış ve aralarında anlamlı fark belirlenmiştir (p˂0,05). Katılımcıların sağlık anksiyeteleri arttıkça yaşam doyumlarının azaldığı ve anlamlı ilişki olduğu tespit edilmiştir (r=-,103; p=,039). Pandemi sürecinde kişilerin sağlık anksiyetelerinin azaltılması, yaşam doyumlarının artırılması ve ruh sağlığının korunması için multidispliner hareket edilmeli, tedbirler uygulanmalı ve toplumun her kesimine ulaşılması hedeflenmelidir.

The aim of the research was to examine the breast milk perceptions of adult individuals in generations X, Y, and Z and the factors affecting them. This descriptive research was conducted between May-June 2021. The sample group of the research consisted of 341 adult individuals over the age of 18 living in Turkey. "Information Form" and "Breast Milk Perception Scale for Adults" were used to collect data. The total average score adults received from the "Breast Milk Perception Scale for Adults" was determined as 115.17±22.59. A significant difference was found between the individuals in terms of sex, marital status, income status, presence of children, number of children, breast milk intake of children, being informed about breast milk and their breast milk perception levels (p<0.05). No statistically significant difference was found between the individuals who participated in the research in terms of their X, Y, and Z generation status and breast milk perception scale scores (p>0.05). Consequently, it was determined that the breast milk perceptions of the individuals participating in the research were above the average. It was found that individuals' sex, marital status, income status, presence of children, number of children that they feed their children with breast milk, that they are lectured about breast milk affected their perception of breast milk.