COVID-19 has caused a major crisis all over the world. To manage this crisis, a fixed shift system was applied to nursing home staff in Turkey to protect nursing home residents from the COVID-19 pandemic. Staff were not allowed to leave the institution during fixed shifts. It is thought that this practice for the COVID-19 outbreak, while protecting nursing home residents on the one hand, increased the workload and related stress of nursing home staff on the other hand. To the best of our knowledge, there is no study examining the workload and stress caused by the COVID-19 pandemic for nursing home staff in Turkey. The aim of this study was to examine the level of workload and work stress experienced by staff working in nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey. Methods: A cross-sectional research design was used in the study. The sample of the study consisted of nursing home personnel working in nursing homes in the provinces of Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir and Antalya between October 2021 and January 2022. A personal information form and a workload and stress scale were used for collecting the data. Cluster analysis was performed with SPSS software. Results: In total, 154 nursing home personnel participated in the study. A statistically significant difference was found between the mean age of the two clusters. The first cluster was described as “old” and the second as “young”. Statistically significant and high values were found in the quantitative workload, qualitative workload, job organization, social work area and fatigue factors in the nursing home staff in the older participant cluster. Conclusion: The results of this study provide new information about the concepts of workload and work stress experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey, which will serve as a guide for the management of future pandemics. Therefore, this study will contribute to the strategies to be followed in future pandemics in Turkey.
Bu araştırmanın amacı, yaşlılık bilimi ve yaşlı bakımı üzerine eğitim alan Gerontoloji bölümü ve Yaşlı Bakım programı öğrencileri ile Sağlık Yüksekokulu’nda farklı programlarda eğitim alan üniversite öğrencilerinin yaşlı ayrımcılığına ilişkin tutumlarını belirlemektir. Tanımlayıcı tipteki bu araştırmanın çalışma grubunu Gerontoloji Bölümü, Yaşlı Bakımı Programı ve Sağlık Hizmetleri Meslek Yüksekokulunda diğer programlarda eğitim-öğretim gören toplam 780 öğrenci oluşturmaktadır. Veri toplama araçları olarak öğrenci bilgi formu ve Yaşlı Ayrımcılığı Tutum Ölçeği formu (YATÖ) kullanılmıştır. Verilerin analizi SPSS-23 paket programı ile elde edilmiştir. Araştırmadan elde edilen bulgulara göre; üniversite öğrencilerinin yaşlı ayrımcılığına yönelik çoğunlukla olumlu tutum sergilediği ve yaşlı ayrımcılığı tutum ölçeği puanları ile öğrencilerin cinsiyet, sınıf düzeyi, öğrenim görülen bölümü, mezuniyet sonrası yaşlı yetişkin ile araştırma isteği değişkenleri arasında anlamlı farklılık olduğu tespit edilmiştir (p
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