Nursing managers should take into consideration that nurses' feelings of workplace loneliness and alienation can reduce the nurses' job performance. When managers create formal and informal support networks, it can reduce nurses' negative feelings of loneliness and alienation. Thus, helping nurses to perform better at work.

The aim of the research is to adapt a valid and reliable scale to Turkish to measure the COVID 19 vaccine literacy level of individuals. Materials and Methods: The scale developed by Ishikawa et al. and adapted as COVID 19 vaccine literacy by Biasio et al. was used to assess health literacy in chronic diseases. Confirmatory and exploratory factor analysis and reliability analysis were conducted in the Turkish adaptation of the scale. Random sampling method, one of the probabilistic sampling methods, was used in sample selection. The sample of the study consists of 596 individuals who agreed to participate in the study. Result: Of those participating in the research, 60.6% are women and 39.4% are men. In addition, 34.1% of the participants are Generation Y, 28.2% Gen X, 27.9% Gen Z and Gen. Baby Boomer 9.9%. Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin sampling adequacy test result value is 0.905 and Bartlett's test is significant. According to the explanatory factor analysis, it is divided into two dimensions as in the original scale and the total explained variance is 65.970%. The goodness of fit values of the scale were determined as RMSEA = 0.069, NFI = 0.949, CFI = 0.961, GFI = 0.943, AGFI = 0.917, IFI = 0.961, TLI = 0.952, RMR = 0.036 and it was found to be within the accepted values. Finally, the Cronbach alpha value of the scale was determined to be 0.868. Conclusion:The COVID -19 vaccine literacy scale is a valid and reliable tool that can be used. At the same time, the scale is to evaluate how individuals have obtained information about the COVID -19 vaccine, and their ability to gather and understand information about the vaccine. Amaç: Araştırmanın amacı, bireylerin Covid-19 aşı okuryazarlık düzeyini ölçmek için kullanılacak geçerli ve güvenilir bir ölçeği Türkçe' ye uyarlamaktır. Gereç ve Yöntem: Kronik hastalıklarda sağlık okuryazarlığının değerlendirilmesi için Ishikawa ve meslektaşları tarafından geliştirilen ve Biasio ve meslektaşları tarafından Covid-19 aşı okuryazarlığı olarak uyarlanan ölçek kullanılmıştır. Ölçeğin Türkçe uyarlamasında doğrulayıcı ve keşfedici faktör analizi ve güvenilirlik analizi yapılmıştır. Örneklem seçiminde kolayda örnekleme yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Çalışmanın örneklemini çalışmaya katılmayı kabul eden 596 birey oluşturmaktadır. Bulgular: Araştırma da katılım gösterenlerin, %60,6'sı kadın ve %39,4'ü erkeklerden oluşturmaktadır. Ayrıca, katılımcıların %34,1'ni Y kuşağı, %28,2'sini X kuşağı, %27,9'nu Z kuşağı ve %9,9'nu Bebek Patlaması kuşağı oluşturmaktadır. Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin örneklem yeterliliği test sonucu değeri 0,905 ve Barlett's testi anlamlıdır. Açıklayıcı faktör analizine göre orijinal ölçekteki gibi iki boyuta ayırılmakta ve toplam açıklanan varyansı %65,970'dir. Ölçeğin uyum iyiliği değerleri, RMSEA= 0,069, NFI= 0,949, CFI= 0,961, GFI= 0,943, AGFI= 0,917, IFI = 0,961, TLI= 0,952, RMR=0,036 olarak tespit edilmiş ve kabul edilen değerlerde olduğu anlaşılmıştır. Son olarak ölçeğin Cronbach alfa değeri 0,868 olarak tespit edilmiştir. Sonuç:Covid-19 aşı okuryazarlığı ölçeğinin kullanılabilecek ...

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Objective:Patient-physician communication is important for an effective healthcare service and for the patient’s development of loyalty to the hospital. In this regard, this study aimed to determine whether there is a relationship between the patient-physician communication, the loyalty of the patient to the physician and to the hospital. Also study aimed to determine whether there is a mediating role of the physician loyalty on the patient-physician communication effect on to the hospital loyalty.Method:Five hundred ten questionnaires were distributed to regular public patients of the government hospitals, clinics, and private clinic patients in Sakarya using a simple random sampling method. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics and Structural Equation Modelling (SEM).Results:According to the findings, there was a significant relationship between patient-physician communication and loyalty to physician and to hospital. Patient-physician communication has a significant effect on loyalty to physician and hospital. In addition, patient loyalty has a mediating role on the patient-physician communication effect on the hospital loyalty.Conclusion:According to the result of the study, physician-patient communication could be used as an important tool in creating physician loyalty and hospital loyalty. This study helps physicians and health service providers to formulate strategies and tactics that will effectively develop the loyalty of patients.

Background: Cancer patients may experience stress because of insufficient information about their illness, health condition, or treatment, but some may fear what the information reveals.Objective: This study aims to determine health information-seeking behaviour, the attitudes of cancer patients, the barriers they face in seeking health information and their sociodemographic and disease characteristics. Methods: A survey was conducted with 84 cancer patients in Turkey. Descriptive statistics were performed to determine the characteristics of information seeking and barriers found. Results: Cancer patients are likely to seek health information, often confident about finding resources easily. The main problems are as follows: (1) insufficient information from health care providers; (2) understanding medical terminology; and (3) lack of help from health care providers to explain information retrieved. Discussion: The information-seeking behaviour of cancer patients in this sample in Turkey resembles studies elsewhere, with (overall) evidence of monitoring behaviour (wanting to find out more about the disease, treatment and effects on lived experience). Conclusions:The cancer patients in this survey were generally willing and confident in their information seeking to find out more about the disease, treatment and effects on lifestyle. The main barriers were medical terminology, insufficient explanations and information from healthcare providers.

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Purpose This study aims to reveal the mediating role of patient satisfaction on the impact of relationship marketing on hospital loyalty. Design/methodology/approach The scale questionnaires used in the study was the Relationship Marketing, Hospital Loyalty and the Patient Satisfaction Scale. The population of the study is made up of the patients who received in-hospital services in private hospitals operating in Kocaeli province. The field study was conducted between August 1 and October 31, 2019. After determining the sample size, the study was conducted on 401 patients in private hospitals primarily using the purposive sampling method. Descriptive statistics, correlation analysis and statistical package for the social sciences Process Macro were used to analyze the data. Findings According to the findings of this study, patient satisfaction has an effect on hospital loyalty. Relationship marketing has an impact on hospital loyalty, and this effect is further enhanced by patient satisfaction. In other words, patient satisfaction has a mediating role in the impact of relationship marketing on hospital loyalty. Relationship marketing plays an important role in creating hospital loyalty and patient satisfaction. For this reason, it is recommended that health institutions adopt relationship marketing practices. Hospital loyalty and patient satisfaction will be ensured through relationship marketing. This will allow the health-care institution to continue to exist and to be more advantageous than other institutions. Originality/value The uniqueness of the paper lies not only in the only regression findings but also in the methodology used to capture the impact of the lagged effect of marketing relationships on hospital loyalty. Specifically, a regression model is based on both direct and indirect effects.