Topic
Nurses are uniquely positioned to provide early diagnoses and interventions for abused, neglected, or at‐risk children. They are also required, by law, to report suspected child abuse. However, little is known about the attitudes of student and registered nurses in reporting cases of abuse.
Purpose
This study aimed to identify nursing students' attitudes and related factors toward reporting child abuse and neglect in Turkey.
Sources
This cross‐sectional study was carried out with the online participation of 1170 nursing students. The scale for determining the attitudes of health professionals in reporting child abuse (ACAS) was administered together with questions on demographic information.
Conclusions
ACAS scores of nursing students toward reporting child abuse were average. Younger age, poor perceived academic success, suspecting of a child abuse and neglect case during clinical practice, and male sex were independently associated with higher ACAS scores. Therefore, education programs for nursing students should focus on improving their attitudes toward reporting child abuse and neglect.
Objective
The study was conducted to determine the vaccination rates and related factors among the elderly.
Design
Cross‐sectional study.
Sample
This study was conducted with 984 elderly people living in a province in western Turkey.
Measurements
The single‐stage cluster sampling method was used in the sample selection. The descriptive statistics, the chi‐square analysis, the Mann–Whitney U test and the logistic regression analysis for the multivariate analysis were used to evaluate the data.
Results
It was determined that 45.6% of the elderly were vaccinated after the age of 65 and the most frequently administered vaccines were influenza (41.3%), pneumococcal (10.9%), and tetanus (5.5%) vaccines. Higher vaccination rates were determined in the following demographics, namely by 1.8‐fold (95% CI, 1.4–2.4) in those living in urban areas, by 2.6‐fold (95% CI, 1.8–3.9) in those with high school or higher education, by 1.5‐fold (95% CI, 1.0–2.5) in those who did not work, by 1.7‐fold (95% CI, 1.3–2.3) in those with chronic diseases and by 2‐fold (95% CI, 1.1–3.4) in those who fulfilled their physical own needs themselves.
Conclusion
This study showed that more than half of the elderly did not receive any vaccinations in old age. The vaccination rates of the elderly were associated with many factors.
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