Purpose: This study aims determining nursing students' attitudes and empathic tendencies regarding aged discrimination Methods: A descriptive or cross-sectional study was conducted, using the basic empathy scale, ageism attitude scale. Findings: The findings indicate that the students have a mid-level attitude with respect to ageism. Higher levels of empathic approach indicates a downward trend in positive and negative ageism in students and an upward trend in the attitude of restricting the life of older people. The difference between living with the elderly and class and empathy, between gender and elderly attitude is significant. Practice Implications: Nursing students' empathic tendencies affect attitudes towards the elderly.
The health coaching intervention is recommended, as it contributes to facilitate the treatment adherence and increase the self-efficacy skills by improving the quality of life of the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients.
Background: Exercise, which is one of the health promotion behaviors, is extremely important in healthy life. This study was conducted to examine exercise benefit/barrier perceptions of individuals with diabetes and influencing factors.
Method: This descriptive study was conducted in the Endocrine Polyclinics of a University Hospital with 285 individuals with Type 2 Diabetes between January and June 2020.
Results: In this study, the average score of the exercise benefits subscale was 61.69 +14.79, the barriers subscale was 35.83 + 5.99, and the total score of the exercise benefits/barriers scale was 99.79 + 12.58. The total self-efficacy scale score was reported to be 59.74 + 9.46. A significant relationship was reported between the total mean score of the exercise benefits/barriers scale and having the opportunity to exercise, exercising regularly, and having a disease that prevents exercising. A significant difference was reported between the total mean score of the self-efficacy scale and the regular exercise status.
Conclusion: Because of this study, the number of individuals who regularly exercised is insufficient, the mean exercise benefits/barriers scale score is not at the desired level, and exercise benefit/barrier perceptions are positively affected by the self-efficacy level.
Keywords: Individuals with diabetes; exercise benefit/barrier.
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is a disease characterized by chronic asthma, bronchitis, and interstitial pulmonary diseases. The most frequent and ever-exacerbating symptoms of the disease involve dyspnea, cough, sputum, loss of appetite, fatigue, anxiety, and depression. As the incidence, severity and distress of symptoms accelarate; treatment and care needs of patients also increase. Increasing treatment and care needs in the process of disease and adherence to treatment have a negative effect on the care cost. Patient coaching is an approach that will make an important contribution to the increase of adherence to treatment and disease and the decrease of care cost by developing the symptom management and self-care skills of patients. ÖzetKronik obstrüktif akciğer hastalığı (KOAH); kronik astım, bronşit ve interstisyel akciğer hastalıkları ile karakterize bir hastalıktır. Hastalıkta en sık karşılaşılan ve şiddeti giderek artan semptomlar, dispne, öksürük, balgam, iştahsızlık, yorgunluk, anksiyete ve depresyondur. Semptomların görülme oranı, şiddeti ve bireyde yarattığı stres düzeyi arttıkça hastaların tedavi ve bakım gereksinimlerinde de artış görülmektedir. Hastalık ve tedaviye uyum sürecinde artan tedavi ve bakım gereksinimleri bakım maliyetini olumsuz yönde etkilemektedir. Hasta koçluğu, hastaların semptom yönetimi ve öz bakım becerilerini geliştirerek hastalığa ve tedaviye uyumunun artmasında ve bakım maliyetinin düşmesinde önemli katkı sağlayacak olan bir yaklaşımdır.
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