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Introduction: The choice to be vaccinated results from the environment (physical, biological and social) and the health services provided, rather than the personal decisions of the individual s/guardians. In the study, it is aimed to evaluate the knowledge and attitudes of teachers, who are one of the occupational groups that can lead the society in developing countries such as Turkey, and the level of vaccine reliability. Materials and Methods: This study is a cross-sectional study conducted in the city center of Eskişehir in the first semester of the 2020 academic year. Schools in the province were stratified as primary and secondary schools. The number of schools to be selected was determined by considering the layers' weights. From the list of schools, nine primary schools, 12 secondary schools were chosen by random sampling, and 21 schools were selected. Seven hundred fifty-two teachers working in schools chosen and agreeing to participate in the study were included. Results: There was a weak positive correlation (r=0.277, p=<0.001) between the total scores of the participants on the Vaccine Confidence Scale (VCS) and the total scores from the knowledge questions (r=0.277, p=<0.001), and there was a moderate positive correlation between the total scores from the attitude questions (r=0.440, p=<0.001). Conclusion: In the study, it was shown that teachers' knowledge about vaccines is not very high. Still, their confidence about vaccines increases with the training to be given and expanding their knowledge level. It is believed that social immunization will gain momentum with the appointment of teachers at the forefront in the dissemination of vaccination programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Regarding Covid-19 pandemic, the preparatory works were carried out by the Rector's Office, the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and the Chief Physician of the Hospital. Staff assignments were made and service started with the circular signed by Ministry of Health dated March 17, 2020. Gradual transition was planned by monitoring the rate of increase in the incidence of cases seen in our city. In accordance with the instructions of the Presidency, the Ministry of Health Scientific Committee and the Higher Education Institution (YÖK), pandemic tent, pandemic service, pandemic intensive care units were opened and research assistants and lecturers were assigned to these units with decision taken by full harmonic work of the Hospital Administrative Board. Physicians from all branches were appointed with rotation in the pandemic outpatient clinic. The global epidemic caused by Covid-19 (corona virus) brought about serious changes in both education and exam applications in the last period of 2019-2020 academic year. The departments that require applied training, especially the Faculty of Medicine, were more affected from this process. All infrastructure facilities of our university were integrated into the system in a very short time in order to conduct online exams and the exams were successfully applied. Dear Rector, Professor Dr. Nigar Demican Çakar played the most important role in the effective functioning of the process with her directional decisions, administrative audits and continuously supports to the other transactions throughout the whole process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lack of morality of the humankind in the 21th century takes him to different alternatives. After all, after he can't find satisfying answers why does a person want to kill himself which is regarded as untouchable by Allah? So; we aim to reveal the students' views of Theology faculty at Kırklareli University and students from other faculties of the same university towards suicide and their religious tendencies. An increase on suicides in Turkey and throughout the world is observed recently. In this research the relationships between the opinions on suicide and individiual piety, cultural differences, gender, marital and economical statues, living places have been tried to be revealed. The research is a field research in which survey method has been used and also suitable for scanning method. The sample is consisted of 200 students from the theology faculty of Kırklareli University (N=80) and the students from other faculties of the same university (N=120) Sample has been applied as "suicade attitudes" and "Individual religion inventory". In the findings there are main differences between the attitudes towards the suicide and individual piety; and the suicide and individual piety and gender. And there are local differences of states' attitudes and faculties towards the suicide and individual piety. Also significant differences has not been found by the marital status, economical situation and living places of people towards the suicide and individual piety. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background and Design: Intense studies have been conducted in the world for the purpose of protecting children from the sun and raising awareness of sun protection at early age. Thus, the aim of the study is to evaluate sun protection interventions for preschoolers. Materials and Methods: This study was conducted under the guidance of PRISMA-P declaration. The articles were conducted in the study using the databases of Cochrane, PubMed, ScienceDirect, CINAHL, Clinical Key/Elseiver, Ovid, MEDLINE and the terms of "Skin Neoplasms", "Sun Protection Factor", "Child, Preschool", "Randomized Controlled Trial" MeSH without any year restriction in March 2016. Randomized controlled studies applying sun protection steps at preschool education institutions and being conducted in English were included in the study. Results: In the systematic review, five research articles selected according to study criteria were examined and it was observed that the interventions were aimed at students, parents, teachers and school administrators. All of the studies were conducted between 1995-2007, four in the United States of America and one in Germany. Programs conducted in the articles were formed based on Piaget's cognitive development theory, Health Belief Model, and Social Learning Theory. In the programs, behaviors of children were observed at kindergartens and information and attitudes of kindergarten administrators, sun protection applications, facilities/obstacles/policies of school, sun protection behaviors of children from the perspective of parents, sun protection behaviors of teachers and parents for children and psychosocial variables were evaluated. Conclusion: The intervention was observed to be efficient in four out of these five researches included in the study. Due to the importance of sun exposure in childhood, the early development of sun protection awareness is extremely important. It is thought that this systematic review will prepare a basis for future studies by drawing attention to effective models in sun protection education for children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today, following the technological advances, so many sectors have been experiencing changes and developments. In the light of these changes and developments corporations, especially in banking sector, to avoid lagging behind among their competitors, have been forced to improve the service areas which have been offered to their clients. In Turkey, as well as in many other countries, banks use the different communication channels to sustain the competitive positions in the sector and to provide service to their clients. Technological advances, increasing operation costs and understanding of higher customer satisfaction have propelled the banks to try to find the new service channels. As a result of this, with the term "internet banking", the banks have been impelled to service their clients who use internet infrastructure and have computer, mobile phone etc. available to use this infrastructure which is independent from time and place. The aim of our study is to determine the behavior and its factors of the academic staff using internet banking and working at Atatürk University. In this context, we have tried to answer these questions "What could be the motivation of akademic people, who work in Atatürk University, to use internet banking?" and "Which factors would cause this?". In the analysis, binary logistic regression analysis was used. At the end of the study, among academics who work in Atatürk University, as effective variables in internet banking use, gender, age, basic science major and car ownership have been identified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although accounting ethics considered to have a philosophical perspective, it is a discipline which arose due to necessity. The point of views of the people of a country which experienced financial crises appeared due to the lack of accounting ethics and the people of a country which never needed such a discipline might be different. This study aims to point this difference. Totally 25 academicians with the major of accounting, 10 from the universities located in United States of America and 15 from the universities located in Turkey, are interviewed. The results of the interviews proved that Turkish academicians do not pay as much attention as American academicians use to pay. This also proves that there is a relationship between the education structure of a country and the point of views of the academicians shaping this education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigates the attitudes of the academicians at a Faculty of Education in Istanbul towards Multicultural Education. For this purpose, a scale was prepared and it was sent via e-mail to the academicians of 15 universities in Istanbul which have a Faculty of Education. Throughout the study, 108 people started to fill in the questionnaire but 82 of them completed it. The answers of 82 participators to The Multicultural Education Attitudes Survey were graded and certain analyses were drawn from them. After the analysis, the means of the scores of the academicians revealed that their attitudes towards multicultural education were quite high. Moreover, taking the demographic information of the participators as an independent variable, ANOVA and Regression Analysis were carried out. Because the significance of all the independent variables was over .05, the ANOVA analysis showed that there were not any significant differences between the variables. The Regression Analysis also showed that the demographic information of the participators was not a determiner of the attitudes towards multilingual education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Problem: The evaluation of computer attitudes of English Language Teachers who work in state and private universities. Purpose of the research: The purpose of this research is to examine the attitudes to computers of the English Language Teachers who work in different kind of universities such as state and private universities so to compare and find the differences in using computers. Method: Because of this research aim is to find the differences of lectureres using computers in their courses, the survey method is used in this research. The population is the universities placed in Gaziantep city center, sample is Gaziantep University and Private Zirve University. The data was analysed with the statistical program SPSS 17.0 and frequancy analyses and t-test were used. Findings and Results: According to the results, English Language Teachers who work in university use computers mostly for e-mail, students records, administrative reports and maintaining lesson plans. The lecturers of private university used computers for e-mail and planning the lessons more than lecturers who work in state university. Implications: Computer assisted language learning should be used for foreign language teaching with more lecturers, precautions should be considered and the software used in computer for educational purposes should be more common and accesible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess knowledge, views, and behaviour of psychiatrists on authorship, to determine the authorship problems experienced, and to evaluate their views on which contributions to research merit authorships and their perceptions about gift authorship and strategies for preventing it. Methods: A total of 87 academic psychiatrists and psychiatry specialists in Turkey participated in this study. A questionnaire form consisting of 36 questions, developed by the researchers and based on previous studies, was sent to all participants via e-mail. The returned forms have been evaluated for this study. Results: Gift authorship was considered unethical by all participants, and 42 (48%) of participants experienced authorship problems. Conceiving the research idea, designing the study, collecting data, providing statistical analysis, interpretation of statistical data, drafting the article or revising it critically were assumed to be enough to merit authorship. 81 (93.1%) of participants perceived gift authorship as a common problem promoted by pressure to publish and enhancing the chances of publication. The respondents suggested that requiring researchers to sign a statement justifying authorship and to specify the actual contribution of each author were effective strategies for reducing/preventing gift authorship. Conclusion: Authorship problems are common and gift authorship was perceived as unethical by academic psychiatrists and psychiatry specialists. There is a need for tight control as well as more comprehensive research studies and extensive education on authorship ethics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this study is to determine the reading habits and attitudes of senior students enrolled at the Faculty of Education. The study group includes 242 students studying at the departments of Elementary Education and Turkish Education Faculty of Education in Cumhuriyet University. In the study, a five–point Likert-style scale named “Attitude scale towards Reading Habit” was used as the data collection tool. Independent samples test and ANOVA were used to analyze the data. Statistically significant difference was found in “liking” subscale in favor of girl students in terms of gender variable. No statistically significant differences were found in the subscales of habit, necessity, willing, effect and benefit. Besides, no statistically differences were obtained in whole subscales in terms of department variable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aim: In this study, the attitudes of teaching staff of Faculty of Medicine, Dicle University, in the 2005-2006 academic year about technology was intended to be examined. This research is a study on how teaching staff are affected with their different characteristics. Materials and Methods: Our study 224 persons were taken. Of the persons, 68 were professor, 40 were Assoc Professor, 44 were Assistant Professors, 58 were research assistants and 14 were expert. In our study, how the attitude variables were connected to the dependent (target) variables was determined. The emergence of attitudes of different items has been intended to be studied on. Likert type form was applied for attitude items. Results: The attitudes on the wish of the teaching staff to join technology fairs were found to be different. Research assistants were found to have positive attitudes compared to the higher rank teaching staff. It was seen that the teaching staff who were indecisive to join the technological fairs wanted new instructive technologies to be used in their areas. Their departments determined their attitudes. It can be said that the teaching staff are indecisive about the opinion that 'technology will take place of human beings'. It was found that the ones who did not agree with this item were mostly from Surgery Department. Conclusion: In general, the academic staff have positive attitudes towards technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The job satisfaction is of great importance for academicians in terms of training the well-qualified individuals which the country needs and providing scientific and technical advances. For this aim, in this study, the factors which determine job satisfaction of the academicians in Zonguldak Karaelmas University are investigated. The job satisfaction of the academicians is analyzed by survey and it is concluded by the factor analysis that six factors determine the job satisfaction. The effect of these six factors on general satisfaction is investigated using the regression analysis. According to the results, while the six factors have positive effects on general satisfaction, the factor of the structure of management and organization has the most important effect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]