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    Frequency of parental COVID-19 vaccine hesitation and attitudes and behaviors towards protection of for their children aged 5-12 from COVID-19; [5-12 yaş çocuklar için COVID-19 aşısı ebeveyn tereddüdünün sıklığı ve ebeveynlerin çocuklarının COVID-19’dan korunmasına yönelik tutum, davranışları]
    (Turkish Society of Public Health Specialists, 2023) Erkekoğlu G.Ş.; Eser E.
    Objective: Aim of study’s determine frequency of hesitations of parents to COVID-19 vaccinate their children and parents the behaviors of take COVID-19 public health measures(PHM) for their children who applied to a university hospital in Turkey. Methods: This descriptive study is study of parental COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and PHM in parents with children aged 5-12years admitted to university hospital in Turkey, January-February 2022.Participants’ sociodemographic, COVID-19 infection and vaccinations characteristics, status of parents taking PHM, COVID-19 Fear Scale are independent variables. Student’s t test, ANOVA, chi-square test in univariate analyses, logistic-linear regression models in multivariate analyzes’re used. Type-1 error value is 0.05.Analyzes’re made using SPSS23.0. Results:Parents’ mean age’s 37.1±6.4, 68.7% of them female. Children’s mean age’s 8.5±2.3, 53.8% of them male. 17.9% of parents consider their knowledge of protection from COVID-19 and vaccines minimally sufficient/insufficient, 28.7% of them have negative attitude towards PHM for their children. 48.8% of parents’ve hesitations their children vaccination. As multiple analysis’s result; fathers who’ve never been vaccinated, increase risk of hesitations 6.21times (OR:6.21;95%CI=2.16-17.82); parent’s negative attitude towards PHM increases risk of hesitations 2.69 times (OR:2.69;95%CI=1.35-5.35); each unit increase in mother’s PHM behavior score affects hesitations 0.89times (OR:0.89;95%CI=0.84-0.95). While it’s found that father’s PHM behavior score had the most effect on parent’s PHM behavior score, COVID-19 Fear Scale score had the least effect. Conclusion: Nearly one every two parents have COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy for their childen. Fathers’re main actors for taking PHM for COVID-19, so fathers as well as mothers should be considered target persons for children COVID-19 vaccine. © 2023 by the Association of Public Health Specialist.
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    Community based peer supported weight loss intervention on women with overweight and obesity
    (Turkish Society of Public Health Specialists, 2024) Bilgin Şahin B.; Eser E.
    Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the success of the new peer-led weight loss community intervention model in women aged 18-64. Methods: Women leaders in the community (n = 11) were identified to supervise and monitor their target group of women during the intervention which included a balanced diet and regular physical activity program. Initially, all women aged 18–64 in the district (n = 655) were screened and 396 were found to have a BMI > 25.0. Of these, 137 volunteered to participate in the program. 86.9% of the women completed the 3rd month, and 78.1% completed the 6th month of the intervention. Univariate (Paired t-test and Wilcoxon signed rank test for dependent groups; Student’s t test, Mann–Whitney U test, Kruskal–Wallis, Chi-square, and Fisher’s exact test for independent groups) and Multiple Linear Regression analyses were conducted in the study. Type 1 error limit was accepted as 0.05 in the analyses. Results: Significant improvements were observed in the body weight of the participants in the 3rd (-1.1±2.5 kg) month of the intervention (p<0.05). At 3rd and 6th months of the intervention, 10.9% and 13.1% of women lost at least 5% of their weight, while 8.4% and 11.2% of women jumped to a better BMI category, respectively. Conclusion: The exercise program implemented (regardless of covariate variables) was effective on the weight loss. Community-based peer-led obesity interventions are challenging but promising. © 2024 by the Association of Public Health Specialist.
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    Sleep quality and related factors in individuals aged 20 and over consulting primary health care centers
    (Turkish Society of Public Health Specialists, 2024) Buran Z.C.; Ozyurt B.C.
    Objective: This cross-sectional study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of poor sleep quality and to identify related factors among adults. Methods: This study was among adults aged ≥20 years registered at Primary Health Care Center in August-September 2022. Primary outcome was sleep quality, which was assessed by Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). Secondary outcomes were sociodemographic, lifestyle, health characteristics, sleep-related factors, anxiety-depression. Chi-square test for categorical variables was used in univariate analysis, logistic regression models in multivariate analysis was used. SPSS version 23.0 was used for analysis, type-1 error accepted as 0.05. Results: Participant’s average age was 40.98±13.68 years. 34.6% of participants had poor sleep quality. 12.7% of them had abnormal level anxiety while 8.5% had abnormal level depression. Between total PSQI score and anxiety-depression, there was a moderate positive correlation (r=.375,p<0.001;r=.468,p<0.001,respectively). Being older (RR=1.07(95%CI=1.04-1.10)); being female (RR=5.1(95%CI=1.9-13.6)); living in semi-urban area (RR=2.9(95%CI=1.3-6.5)); shift/part-time work (RR=3.9(95%CI=1.1-14.0)); smoking (RR=2.7(95%CI=1.1-6.7)); sleeping in dim light (RR=6.0(95%CI=2.5-14.5)) or sleeping in bright light (RR=9.5(95%CI=3.3-27.5)); being stressed (RR=5.0(95%CI=1.7-14.3)); borderline (RR=3.6(95%CI=1.1-11.3)) or abnormal level (RR=9.5(95%CI=2.6-34.4)) anxiety was found to be related to poor sleep quality. Conclusion: One out of three people had poor sleep quality. Increasing age, gender, low socioeconomic status, negative lifestyle, poor sleep hygiene and mental health were associated with poor sleep quality. Health-promoting activities should be held to encourage individual’s positive health behavior development, in chronic disease follow-ups, sleep quality should be questioned. Since sleep hygiene and mental health were important determinants of sleep quality, people should be informed about how to improve these. © 2024 by the Association of Public Health Specialist.