Browsing by Author "Sensoy, Funda"

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Attitudes of students who receive health education in a foundation university regarding age discrimination
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2014) Uysar, Gulzade; Beydag, K. Derya; Sensoy, Funda; Ozaydin, Nihat; Kiyak, Mithat
The study was carried out in order to determine the attitudes of students who receive health education in a foundation university regarding age discrimination. The universe of the descriptive cross-sectional type study was created by students who received education in the spring term of 2013-2014. All the universe was target and accessible 620 students willing to participate the study were involved. The data was collected from the "Questionnaire" and "Age discrimination attitude scale (YATO)". The results were analysed with SPSS 17.0 package program. At the end of study 68,5% of the participating students were women and their average of age was 21,41 +/- 3,12. The general YATO point average of the students was determined as 68,16 +/- 6,48. YATO points of the male students were higher and the difference between the genders is statistically meaningful (p<0,05). It was detected that the students have a positive attitude against old discrimination. In line with the results it can be recommended to add education and consultancy programmes about old age and old discrimination to the syllabus of health education receiving students. Crown Copyright (C) 2014 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Compliance with diabetic patients with diabetes and requirements of taking education
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2014) Eroglu, Safiye Coban; Sensoy, Funda; Beydag, Kerime Derya; Kiyak, Mithat
Diabetes mellitus is a condition having negative effects on life quality and is getting more common worldwide. So, patient education becomes greater importance due to its positive effects on life quality and patients' adaptive behavior. This study was performed to define patients' adaptive response to condition and their intentions for subjects of education after a patient education session by cross sectional method. Data was collected by a questionnaire including 38 multi choice questions built up by essay the related literature. The study population was composed by patients consulted in endocrinology and internal diseases policlinics and their inpatients. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS (R) 16.0) was used as statistical analyzer. Most of studied patients are female, married, graduated elementary school and housewives and their age distribution was between 53 and 70 years. All of them have a balanced budget and, nearly almost, they were covered by social insurance. The most common morbidity of patients was hypertension and their condition controlled by a physician. Most of them were recommended a specific dietary regime related to their condition by an expert- nearly half are physicians- and the majority of patients were putting the recommend regime into practice. The majority of diabetic patients hadn't had any education on their actual condition and had an intention to take part in an educational activity. The most intended subject was activities for prevention of complications. We defined a statistically significant relation between type and size of family, duration of condition, membership to any related association and publication, and having intention for education. (C) 2014 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
The effects of mobbing (bullying) on health employes
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2014) Gorgulu, Neriman; Beydag, Kerime Derya; Sensoy, Funda; Kiyak, Mithat
The research was made as cross-sectional and descriptive in order to examine the effects of mobbing (bulling) on health employees in Ataturk State Hospital in Balikesir city. Preliminary of the study was completed in December 2012 - January 2013, collecting data was made on January 28-2013 and March 28-2013 and between April, May and June 2013 data entry, analyses and writing of thesis was made. Research universe is 911 people who work as actively in Atatiirk State Hospital in Balikesir city. The sample of research consists 238 health employees who were obtained by using sample costing formula on situations in which the universe is definite. While collecting the data, socio-demographic properties of health personnel, public survey which is consisted 3 section in order to define the effects between mobbing behavior and encountering situations. The data obtained after the research was analyzed with SPSS 19,0 Windows program (Statistical Package fort he Social Sciences). While assessing the data, number-percentage counting and chi-square importance test was used. In the study, it was determined that health employees were exposed to mobbing behaviors in different frequencies and had effects of mobbing from time to time. It was determined that the jobs of health of employees, their genders, marital status, sections they work, the situation of being happy while working at the time being and properties of personality are effective on the situation of being exposed to mobbing behavior (p<0,05) It was defined that nurse and midwife, women, married ones, employees in operating room, intense care, emergency services, the ones who are happy to work at the time being, 'ambitious and hardworking' and emotional ones were exposed to mobbing behavior. As a result, mobbing is a topic which should be think and seen frequently in health sector. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Environmental Reflections of Traditional and Improved Recipes: Assessing Greenhouse Gas and Water Footprints
(Elsevier, 2025) Biliroglu, Cansu; Demirel, Birsen; Kilinc, Guel Eda; Acar, Yasemin; Sensoy, Funda
The concept of sustainability is expressed as to increase people's quality of life and reducing resource use and environmental impacts. The aim of this study was to determine the values of greenhouse gas emissions and water footprints of recipes with improved nutritional content specific to various Turkish cuisines. Thirty traditional recipes were improved in terms of nutritional content, and thirty improved new recipes were created. In this context, the carbon and water footprints of traditional and improved recipes were calculated, and the relationship between nutrients and greenhouse gas emissions and water footprints was analyzed. Compared to traditional recipes, improved recipes for meat dishes, pastries, herb dishes, vegetable dishes, and seafood recipes were found to have lower greenhouse gas emission values (p < 0.05), while the water footprint values of meat dishes, herb dishes, vegetable dishes and seafood recipes were found to be lower (p < 0.05). In traditional recipes, as the amount of energy, protein and fat increased, greenhouse gas values increased (p = 0.030 for energy; p = 0.001 for protein; p=<0.001 for fat), while in improved recipes, as the amount of protein and fat increased, greenhouse gas values increased (p = 0.001; p = 0.012). In addition, in traditional recipes, as the amount of protein and fat increased, the water footprint values also increased (p = 0.013; p = 0.007). In improved recipes, as the amount of protein increased, the water footprint values increased significantly (p = 0.008). It was determined that greenhouse gas emission values decreased by 14.55 % in improved meat dishes, 34.89 % in seafood, and 17.21 % in vegetable dishes, while water footprint values decreased by 15.55 %, 33.82 % and 52.26 % for meat, seafood, and vegetable dishes respectively. We believe that improving and reorganizing traditional cuisines of countries will have positive effects ecologically and health-wise, and will provide important contributions to future studies.
Stress and stress management in health institutions
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2014) Boyaci, Kismet; Sensoy, Funda; Beydag, Kerime Derya; Kiyak, Mithat
The purpose of this research was to determine main stress factors that health workers face with and ways of coping with this stress. To this end, data were obtained by face to face questionnaire from 103 health care workers employed in Merzifon Asker Hastanesi. These data were analyzed with SPSS 16.0 package program. At the end of the study, 83 % of the participants stated that they have various stress factors. in the studied sample, disvaluation of work by others, inequitable distribution of tasks, common workplace gossip, relations with managers, injustice in performance evaluation as well as patient dissatisfaction and fear of complaints were found as leading stress factors. When methods for coping with stress were questioned, most common answers were; 'I repress', 'I fret', I try to solve by myself, and 21will share with my close friends and my family2. it was found that stress factors and coping methods differ based on occupation, sex, and business life time. Considering that services in health sector should be carried out with the least error possible, its obvious that personnel satisfaction has a key role. Therefore, there is an urgent need for effective studies about individual and corporate stress management are needed in our health corporation for the reduction of stress factors. (C) 2014 Published by Elsevier Ltd.