Turnover of healthcare professionals’ is a rapidly growing human resource issue that affects healthcare systems. During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare professionals have faced stressful situations that have negatively impacted their psychological health. In this study, we explored impacts of the emotional wellbeing of healthcare professionals on their intention to quit their jobs. A cross-sectional survey design was used for this study. The respondents were selected based on simple random sampling. In total, 345 questionaries were returned and used for the analysis. Respondents were healthcare professionals (nurses, doctors, midwives, technicians, etc.) working in a pandemic hospital in Turkey. A multivariable logistic regression model was used to predict the emotions that encouraged the respondents to intend to quit their jobs. Emotions including anxiety, burnout, and depression were measured using validated scales. We found that the COVID-19 situation increased the turnover intention, especially among doctors and nurses (ORnurse/midwife = 22.28 (2.78–41.25), p = 0.01; ORdoctors = 18.13 (2.22–2.27), p = 0.01) mediating the emotional pressure it was putting them under. Anxiety related to work-pressure and burnout especially were the main emotional predictors of turnover intention. The more severe the anxiety was, the more the professional considered quitting (ORmoderate = 18.96 (6.75–137.69), p = 0.005; ORsevere = 37.94 (2.46–107.40), p = 0.016). Only severe burnout, however, engendered such an intention among them (ORsevere = 13.05 (1.10–33.48), p = 0.000).

The onset of COVID-19 has escalated healthcare workers’ psychological distress. Multiple factors, including prolonged exposure to COVID-19 patients, irregular working hours, and workload, have substantially contributed to stress and burnout among healthcare workers. To explore the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare workers, our study compares the job stress, social support, and intention to leave the job among healthcare workers working in a pandemic (HP) and a non-pandemic hospital (HNP) in Turkey during the pandemic. The cross-sectional, paper-based survey involved 403 healthcare workers including physicians, registered nurses, health technicians, and auxiliary staff across two hospitals from 1 September 2020 to 31 November 2020. The findings indicate a significant impact of ‘Job stress’ on ‘Intent to leave’ job among participants in the HP. We noted that ‘intent to leave’ and ‘job stress’ were significantly higher among the HP healthcare workers than those working in the HNP, respectively. However, workers’ ‘social support’ was significantly lower in the HP. Healthcare workers, during COVID-19, face several hurdles such as job stress, reduced social support, and excessive workload, all of which are potential factors influencing a care provider’s intent to leave the job.

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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic from the coronavirus family is the most important agenda of today's world, also called the “New World”. In this outbreak period, declared a pandemic by WHO and affected the whole world and humanity on a global scale, all kinds of scientific information and evidence-based sharing on the subject gained great importance. Methods: Overall, 12,301 articles from the web of Science (WOS) Core Collection database were analyzed using SciMAT software, conducted to examine the development of coronavirus publications in the process and to reveal the scientific mapping related to the subject. To analyze the development in the process based on periods, the articles covering the 50 years were compared as five periods of 10 years. Results: The most publications with the Coronavirus theme were made between 2010 and 2020 (n=1020), the total number of citations of these articles was 15,966 and the h-index value was 54. The theme "Coronavirus” was associated with the themes “infection” (w=0.04), “SARS” (w=0.03), “virus” (w=0.04), “identification” (w=0.05) and "swine" (w=0.03). Due to the recent emergence of the COVID-19 theme, it was found to be directly related to the “outbreak” theme (w=0.01). In terms of the distribution of the articles on coronavirus by country, most articles were published by the USA. This country is followed by China, Germany, England and the Netherlands. Conclusion: This research on the coronavirus family can offer a holistic view of the virus family in the scientific world and can make a scientific contribution to the fight against the virus by creating awareness on this issue.

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Günümüz dünyasının pandemi olarak nitelendirilen Covid-19 hastalığı ile mücadele edilen bu süreçte afetle mücadele ve afet tıbbının önemi bir kez daha anlaşılmıştır. Afet tıbbı (disaster medicine) bağlamında yapılan çalışmalara makroskopik bir bakış açısı getirmek amacıyla, bu araştırmada 1980-2019 yılları arasında, afet tıbbı konusunda yapılan araştırmalar bilim haritalama tekniği kullanılarak bibliyometrik analiz yöntemiyle incelenmiş ve bu alanda son 40 yıldaki eğilimler tespit edilmiştir. Afet tıbbı bağlamında elde edilen veriler, yayın yılı, en üretken yazarlar, makale üretim sayısına göre ülkeler, yayın yapılan dergiler ve atıf yapılan kaynak türleri, etki faktörleri, yazarların bağlı olduğu kurumlar, en çok atıf alan makaleler, en sık atıf yapılan yayınlar gibi çeşitli bibliyometrik parametrelerle incelenmiştir. Web of Science (WOS) veri tabanından elde edilen toplam 171 kaynaktan 506 çalışmanın analizi ile elde edilen sonuçlar, afet tıbbı konusunda üretilen makalelerin en çok 2016 yılında üretildiği, en fazla makale üreten yazarın Burkle F.M. olduğu ve en fazla makale üretilen ülkenin de Amerika Birleşik Devletleri olduğu tespit edilmiştir.

INTRODUCTION: Pulmonary Embolism (PE) is shown as an important health problem all over the world. Many predisposed conditions are known, which are the cause of PE. There are an acquired and genetic risk factors for PE, but in 30% of patients the cause cannot be determined. There are so many and genetic risk factors for PE. However, in %30 of patients the cause aren’t determined. New risk factors are being investigated in recent years. In this study, the relationship between PE and the value of mid platelet volume (MPV) and rheumatological diseases (RH) was studied. METHODS: The records in the hospital database were used in the study. Patients diagnosed with PE between January 2008 and July 2012 were determined retrospectively and 64 patients were included in the study. Among patients diagnosed with PE, those diagnosed with RH and average MPV values of patients were determined. A control group was formed by selecting 64 patients who were not diagnosed with PE and RH from the patients who applied at the same time interval with the case group.Among the patients with PE and who are diagnosed with the RD and whose values of MPV were determined. PE patiends and Rheumatologic patients who are diagnosed with PE and whose values of MPV were compared. RESULTS: As a result of the analyzes, it was determined that there was no significant difference between the case and control groups.