Amaç:
Aşılama, bireylerin sağlığının korunmasında ve bulaşıcı hastalıkların önlenmesinde en önemli ve en etkili tedavilerden biridir. Günümüzde küresel bir salgın olarak kabul edilen koronavirüs hastalığı 2019 (Covid-19) ile mücadelede etkili ve güvenli aşılama oldukça önemlidir. Aşı stratejilerinin oluşturulması, aşı çalışmalarının başlatılması ve sürdürülmesi pandeminin sona erdirilmesinde son derece etkilidir. Ayrıca bireysel önleyici tutumların ve bunların dinamik değişiminin toplumda Covid-19'un yayılmasını önlemede etkili olduğu bilinmektedir.
Gereç ve Yöntemler:
Bu çalışmada, Türk üniversitelerinde toplam 499 öğrenci, aşılama öncesi ve sonrası Covid-19 enfeksiyonu bilgileri ve bireysel koruyucu tutumları hakkında çevrimiçi bir anket doldurdu.
Bulgular:
Ankete katılanların %94,8'i aşılanmıştır. Virüs bulaşması hakkında daha iyi bilgi sahibi olması beklenen öğrencilerin çoğu daha iyi rapor verdi. Üniversite öğrencileri, aşılamadan sonra bile benzer sayıda günlük el yıkamaya devam etti. Ancak aşı sonrası maske takma oranı arttı. Üniversite öğrencileri aşı öncesi Covid-19 enfeksiyonundan oldukça korktular, aşı sonrası korku duyguları önemli ölçüde azaldı ve rahatladılar.
Sonuç:
Türk üniversite öğrencileri aşılama sonrası bireysel koruyucu tutumlarını korumuş ve geliştirmiştir, bu nedenle aşılamaya ek olarak bireysel koruyucu tutumların yeni varyant virüs dalgalarında potansiyel enfeksiyon riskini azaltabileceği varsayılmaktadır.
Aim:
Vaccination is one of the most important and effective treatments for protecting the health of individuals and preventing infectious diseases. Effective and safe vaccination is very important in the fight against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), which is accepted as a global epidemic today. Establishing vaccination strategies and initiating and maintaining vaccination studies are extremely effective in ending the pandemic. In addition, it is known that individual preventive attitudes and their dynamic change are effective in preventing the spread of Covid-19 in society. This study aims to evaluate the changes in individual protective attitudes of Turkish university students post-vaccination compared to pre-vaccination.
Material and Methods:
In this study, a total of 499 students at Turkish universities completed an online questionnaire about their knowledge of Covid-19 infection and individual preventive attitudes pre-and post-vaccination.
Results:
94.8% of the respondents were vaccinated. Most of the students who were expected to have better knowledge about virus transmission gave better self-reports. University students kept a similar number of daily handwashing even after vaccination. However, the rate of wearing masks increased post-vaccination. University students were quite afraid of Covıd-19 infection pre-vaccination, and they were relieved, the feelings of fear were significantly reduced post-vaccination.
Conclusion:
Turkish university students maintained and improved their protective attitudes after vaccination, so it is hypothesized that individual protective attitudes in addition to vaccination might reduce the potential risk of infection in new variant virus waves.
May 19, 2023 Dear Editor, Enclosed is our original manuscript entitled “Continuity and improvement in the individual protective attitudes of university students in Turkey even after the Covid-19 vaccination” by Demet Ekin, Ekrem Acar, Rahime Nurbanu Bakır, Gulam Hekimoglu, for consideration of publication in Akdeniz Medical Journal . Effective and safe vaccination is very important in the fight against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), which is accepted as a global epidemic today. Establishing vaccination strategies, initiating and maintaining vaccination studies are extremely effective in ending the pandemic. In addition, it is known that individual preventive attitudes and their dynamic change are effective in preventing the spread of Covid-19 in society. In this study, a total of 499 students at Turkish universities completed an online questionnaire about their knowledge of Covid-19 enfection and individual preventive attitudes pre-and post-vaccination. 94.8% of the respondents were vaccinated. Most of the students who were expected to have better knowledge about virus transmission gave better self-report. University students kept the similar number of daily handwashing even after vaccination. However, the rate of wearing masks was increased post-vaccination. University students were quite afraid of Covıd-19 infection pre-vaccination, and they were relieved, the feelings of fear were significantly reduced post-vaccination. Turkish university students maintained and improved their individual protective attitudes after vaccination, so it is hypothesized that individual protective attitudes in addition to vaccination might reduce the potential risk of infection in new variant virus waves. All authors have read and approved the submission of this manuscript. There are no financial or other relations that could lead to a conflict of interest. This manuscript represents original material, none of which has been published elsewhere, under simultaneous consideration for publication elsewhere nor submitted elsewhere until a decision is made by Akdeniz Medical Journal. Thank you in advance for your consideration. We are looking forward to hearing from you soon. Sincerely yours, Gulam Hekimoglu Department of Histology and Embryology Hamidiye International School of Medicine University of Health Sciences, Istanbul 34668, Turkey Phone: +90 216 418 96 16 Fax: +90 216 418 96 20 E-mail: gulam.hekimoglu@sbu.edu.tr
Primary Language | English |
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Subjects | Clinical Sciences |
Journal Section | Research Article |
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Early Pub Date | May 10, 2024 |
Publication Date | May 1, 2024 |
Submission Date | May 19, 2023 |
Published in Issue | Year 2024 Volume: 10 Issue: 2 |