Aim
The aim of this study was to adapt the Nurse Turnover Intention Scale to Turkish and test its validity and reliability.
Methods
This methodological study was conducted with 200 nurses. The Personal Information Form and the Nurse Turnover Intention Scale were used for data collection between November and December 2021. Language and content validity, explanatory and confirmatory factor analysis, criterion validity, Cronbach's alpha coefficient, item–total score correlation and test–retest reliability methods were used for the validity and reliability analysis of the scale.
Results
Exploratory factor analysis showed that the Nurse Turnover Intention Scale had a single factor. Its single factor structure was confirmed using confirmatory factor analysis. Cronbach's alpha coefficient of the scale was 0.902, and factor loading was between 0.60 and 0.78. Statistical analyses indicated that each item in the Turkish version of the scale had a high internal consistency. The test–retest correlation value was found as p < 0.05.
Conclusion
The Nurse Turnover Intention Scale has been confirmed to be a suitable, valid and reliable measurement tool for Turkish society. Nurse turnover intention is the most powerful predictor of actual turnover within the nursing profession. This scale will help to easily attain valid and reliable outcomes.
uncertainty processes that have occurred during the pandemic have caused some traumatic injuries in individuals. Traumatic injuries cause both losses of function and deterioration of mental health (Kwok et al., 2020;Wallace et al., 2020). New experiences and changes in priorities during the COVID-19 pandemic have led to a reconsideration of daily life problems and a focused trauma cognitive evaluation of life (Wallace et al., 2020). The most important impact of post-traumatic vulnerability associated with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is rumination, which consists of over-generalized, distorted thoughts and beliefs about the consequences of a traumatic experience (Preston et al., 2021). Taking into consideration the cognitive model of PTSD, it has been reported that rumination is an avoidant coping strategy that has been used to reduce post-traumatic stress (Lee et al., 2021;Skalski et al., 2021), and it has been claimed that rumination often causes to worsening of trauma symptoms (Schumm et al., 2022).Another psychological vulnerability factor that is considered a potential factor for mental trauma is intolerance of uncertainty. Since daily life includes many uncertain or ambiguous situations, it can be thought that perceiving uncertain situations as threatening causes negative emotions Gülay Taşdemir Yiğitoğlu
Purpose
The aim of this study, which is the first in this field in Turkey, is to determine the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of patients who have undergone transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in a psychiatry clinic.
Design and Methods
This study has a retrospective descriptive design. Data of 513 psychiatric patients who have undergone TMS between 2015 and 2018 in a university hospital were reviewed.
Findings
Significant differences were found between psychiatric diagnoses of the patients, based on their sex, marital status, and the number of courses of treatment with TMS (p < 0.05).
Practical Implications
It was suggested that nurses who would practice this procedure were required to be educated for TMS and nursing care to provide well and effective care.
Günümüzde yaşlıların yalnızlık ve sosyal izolasyon sorunları giderek büyümektedir. Toplumsal yapıdaki hızlı değişimler yaşlının bu duruma uyum göstermesini zorlaştırmakta ve yaşlıda daha yoğun sosyal izolasyon ve yalnızlık duygusunun yaşanmasına neden olmaktadır. Yaşlı bireylerin yalnızlık duygusuna sebep olan faktörler; eş ya da arkadaş ölümü, emekli olma, evinden ayrılma, rollerde değişim, duyusal kayıplar, kronik hastalıklar, fiziksel sınırlılıklar, sosyal destek sistemlerinin azlığı, sosyokültürel koşullar, ekonomik güçlükler ve başkalarına bağımlı olmadır. Yalnızlık duygusu yaşlının yaşamını olumsuz yönde etkileyerek bireyin yaşantısını dayanılmaz hale getirebilmektedir. Yapılan araştırmalarda kısıtlı ya da tatmin edici olmayan sosyal ilişkiler yaşayan yaşlılarda mortalite riskinin, güçlü sosyal ilişkileri olan yaşlılara göre daha yüksek olduğu belirtilmektedir. Böyle istenmeyen durumların önlenmesinde doyum sağlanabilen bir sosyal destek sistemi geliştirmek yaşlının yalnızlık hissini azaltarak daha iyi hissetmesini sağlayacaktır. Yaşlı bireylerin sosyal izolasyon ve yalnızlık duygularını literatür doğrultusunda ifade etmek ve sonuçlarını değerlendirmek derlemenin amacıdır. Yapılacak multidisipliner çalışmalarda yaşlı sorunlarının çözümüne ışık tutabilecek bir yazı olduğu düşünülmektedir.
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