BACKGROUND: While the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic creates fear and anxiety on the students’ academic achievement, the risk of an infectious disease may negatively affect education by reducing the concentration ability of students. Thus, it is essential to evaluate the knowledge, behaviors, anxiety levels, and hygiene status of students. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to investigate the knowledge, behavior change, anxiety, and hygiene status of university students about COVID-19. METHODS: The investigation was conducted with students of three vocational schools of health services located in different provinces of Turkey (n = 1055). Data collected by an online survey consisted of knowledge questions about COVID-19, items about behavior change, the hygiene behavior scale (HBS), and the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7 (GAD-7) scale. RESULTS: The knowledge scores of women were significantly higher than the scores of men. Of the students, 59.6%showed positive hygiene behaviors, and 31.5%had anxiety. Female students’ total HDC scale score was significantly lower than that of men, and the total HDC scale score of those who received hand hygiene education was significantly lower than that of participants who did not receive training, which shows a positive hygiene behavior. The total GAD-7 scale score of women was significantly higher than that of men. More than half of the students showed positive hygiene behaviors, and about a third had anxiety. CONCLUSIONS: Based on the study’s results, psychological support and training should be provided to students.

In the treatment of low back pain, various methods such as physical therapy, drug therapy or surgical intervention are used but effective treatment cannot always be achieved with these methods. Complementary and alternative therapy has an important place in the treatment of low back pain. Nowadays, complementary and alternative treatment for low back pain is becoming more common practice. Complementary and alternative therapies such as hydrotherapy (balneotherapy), yoga, ozone, massage, aromatherapy, meditation, prolotherapy, osteopathy, chiropractic, acupuncture, cupping, homeopathy and reflexology are applied in low back pain and patients are getting positive results from these therapies. ÖZBel ağrısının tedavisinde de fizik tedavi, ilaç tedavisi ya da cerrahi girişim gibi çeşitli yöntemlere başvurulmakta, fakat bu yöntemlerle her zaman etkin bir tedavi sağlanamamaktadır. Tamamlayıcı ve alternatif tedavi; bel ağrısı tedavisinde önemli bir yere sahiptir. Bel ağrılarında hidroterapi (balneoterapi), yoga, ozon, masaj, aromaterapi, meditasyon, proloterapi, osteopati, kayropraktik, akupunktur, bardak çekme, homeopati, refleksoloji gibi tamamlayıcı ve alternatif tedavi yöntemleri uygulanmakta ve bel ağrısına sahip kişiler bu tedavilerden olumlu sonuç alabilmektedirler. Günümüzde bel ağrılarında tamamlayıcı ve alternatif tedavi yaygınlaşmakta ve bu da uygulanma oranını arttırmaktadır.

Depression is a serious illness associated with memory, cognitive functions, mood disorders and physical and behavioral changes. This descriptive study was conducted to determine depression status and related factors in nurses. This research was applied to all nurses working at Tunceli State Hospital. The research data were collected using the Personal Identification Form, which were prepared by the researchers, and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). T test, Anova test were used for statistical analysis of the data. The mean age of the nurses in the study was 34.15±8.94 and 88.4% were female. The mean BDI score of the nurses was 11.87±7.50 and 24.6% had depression. BDI scores age was higher in nurses with chronic illness, perception of socioeconomic status as poor, and smoking and alcohol use (p0.05). Depression were found in approximately one quarter of nurses. Nurses are role models in society. Therefore, measures should be taken to conduct regular health checks of nurses, and to minimize stressors related to the work environment.

Objectives: Testicular tumors are the most common malign tumor in men aged 15-35 years. Early diagnosis and treatment is crucial in testicular cancer because if detected at an early stage, testicular cancer can be completely cured. Because of this reason increase in awareness and regular testicular self-examination (TSE) is recommended in the early diagnosis of testicular cancer. This study aimed to investigate the knowledge, attitude and behaviors of students about testicular cancer and testicular self-examination. Methods: This descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted in Health care vocational schools of 2 different universities between November 2018 and January 2019. Data were obtained by a self-applied questionnaire comprised of four sections. Results: One hundred and six (37.7%) participants could not answer any question correctly. While 65.8% (n = 185) of the participants stated that they had heard of testicular cancer, the rate of those who heard about TSE was 17.8% (n = 50). Only 5.7% (n = 16) of the participants reported performing TSE. Binary logistic regression analysis was shown that the following factors increase men's intention to perform TSE: Students' academic unit [OR = 4.36, 95% CI: 1.37-13.88], age [OR = 0.2; 95% CI: 0.008-0.72], city [OR = 0.64; 95% CI: 1.15-1.49], those who have heard of TC before [OR = 0.71, 95% CI: 0.016-0.917], received information about TC [OR = 0.001, 95% CI: 0.015-0.309], and those who have heard of TSE before [OR = 0.01; 95% CI: 0.001-0.079]. Conclusions: One-third of the university students had never heard of testicular cancer, and TSE was not sufficiently practiced. There is a lack of information on this issue. It was thought that organizing training programs on the subject would raise awareness and save lives by early diagnosis.