Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which was discovered as a result of unexplained cases of pneumonia in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11 March 2020 (WHO, 2020).Because the causes of COVID-19, the routes of transmission and the course of the disease are unknown, there has been uncertainty in all areas of life in addition to the disease posing as a serious threat to public health. Considering this, health care professionals, who are a major force in combating the pandemic and work amid high-risk conditions, undertake an imperative task. Therefore, health care workers are perhaps one of the groups most affected by the pandemic (Sun et al., 2020;Yang & Jung, 2020). Nurses, who constitute the largest component of the health care workforce, play an essential role in ensuring the continuity of health care systems globally and improving health care practices (Nayna Schwerdtle et al., 2020).Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses have continued playing their part in the health care sector, including prevention and control of infections, public health, palliative care and critical care. Particularly, they work on the frontlines as caregivers during

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Hipertansiyon tedavisinde, ilaç tedavisine ek olarak veya tek başına nonfarmakolojik önlemlerin de önemli bir yeri vardır. Bilinçsizce kullanılan Tamamlayıcı Alternatif Tedavi (TAT)'ler hastalık tablosunun ağırlaşmasına ve ortaya çıkan yan etkiler nedeniyle organ fonksiyon bozukluklarına neden olabilmektedir. Araştırma, hipertansiyonu olan bireylerin TAT kullanma durumlarını belirlemek amacıyla yapılmıştır. YÖNTEMLER: Tanımlayıcı tipteki araştırma 347 esansiyel hipertansiyonlu hasta ile yapılmıştır. Verilerin toplanmasında bireylerin demografik özellikleri ve TAT kullanma durumlarını belirlemek amacı ile anket formu kullanılmıştır. Verilerin değerlendirilmesinde sayı, yüzdelik, kikare testi kullanılmıştır. BULGULAR: Araştırma sonucunda, çalışma kapsamındaki bireylerin %68.9'unun kadın, %30.1'in 60-69 yaş grubu arasında olduğu ve %83.6'sının evli olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Hastaların %52.7'sinin TAT yöntemi kullandığı, medeni durum ve gelir düzeyi ile TAT kullanma durumu arasında ki ilişki istatistiksel olarak anlamsız iken(p>0.05), yaş, cinsiyet, aile tipi, eşlik eden kronik hastalık, ikamet edilen yer ve eğitim durumu ile TAT kullanma durumu arasındaki ilişkinin istatistiksel olarak anlamlı olduğu (p SONUÇ: Hipertansiyon hastaları TAT yöntemlerini sık kullandıkları için hemşireler hipertansif bireylerde TAT kullanımını belirlemelidir. Hemşirelerin kronik hastalığı olan bireylere güvenli TAT kullanımı hakkında eğitim ve danışmanlık yapması gerektiği ve hemşire öykü formlarının TAT kullanımına ait soruları içermesi önerilebilir. Anahtar Kelimeler: Hipertansiyon, tamamlayıcı ve alternatif tedavi SUMMARY OBJECTIVE: This study was carried out as a descriptive study in order to examine the use of complementary and alternative treatment in the patients with hypertension. METHODS: This descriptive study was conducted with 347 patients. The data was collected by using questionnaire consisting of the information about the patient's demographic characteristics and using state of complementary and alternative treatment. Data that was collected from the study was analyzed by using means, percentage and chi-squared test. RESULTS: The result of the study has shown that 52.7% of the patients use complementary and alternative treatment, marital status and income with use of complementary and alternative treatment were found not to be statistically significant (p>0.05), age, gender, family type, in addition to hypertension availability chronic disease, residing and education with use of complementary and alternative treatment were found not to be statistically significant (p<0.05). CONCLUSION: The patients having hypertension use complementary and alternative treatment. Nurses should determine the use of complementary and alternative treatment for individuals with chronic disease. It is suggested that patients with chronic disease should compose training and counseling programmes related to the safe use of complementary and alternative treatment and nurse medical history forms should include the usage questions about complementary...

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