COVID-19 Salgınının Türkiye’de Tıbbi Sosyal Çalışma Uygulamalarına Yansıması

Year 2022, Volume: 33 Issue: 3, 841 - 866, 29.07.2022

Zeynep Aca Hürü Akalın Umut Solmaz

https://doi.org/10.33417/tsh.983418

Abstract

COVID-19 salgını, tıbbi sosyal çalışma açısından daha önce bir benzeri görülmemiş, alışılmadık birçok zorlukla baş etmeyi gerektiren dinamik bir alan yaratmıştır. Bu anlamda çalışma, Türkiye’de COVID-19 salgının tıbbi sosyal çalışma uygulaması üzerindeki etkilerini araştırmaktadır. Derinlemesine görüşmelere dayanan ve örnek olay çalışması kullanılan araştırmada kartopu örnekleme yöntemiyle 15 tıbbi sosyal çalışmacı ile görüşülmüştür. 3 Temmuz-20 Temmuz 2021 tarihleri arasında gerçekleştirilen görüşmelerin tamamı çevrimiçi gerçekleştirilmiştir. Katılımcıların onayı ile kaydedilen görüşmeler, ardından aslına uygun olarak yazıya dökülmüştür. Bulgular, COVID-19’un yönetiminde karşılaşılan zorlukları, katılımcıların rutinleri- değişen rutinleri, kaynaklarını, COVID-19’la mücadelenin sosyal çalışma müdahaleleri üzerindeki etkisini; müdahalelerinin kapsamını, katılımcılara COVID-19’un yansımalarını–öz farkındalıklarını ve anlam arayışını, hizmet içi eğitimin içeriğine ilişkindir. Özellikle tıbbi sosyal çalışma uygulamasıyla ilgili olsa da, salgının yarattığı kriz ve travmalar, bulguların hem tıbbi sosyal çalışmaya hem de başka alanlara uygulanabilirliği ima eder. Çalışma, salgın sırasında kanıta dayalı bir çalışma olduğundan, acil durumlarda gelecekteki uygulamalar için dersler çıkarma ve acil eylem planlar hazırlamada rehberlik edicidir.

Keywords

COVID-19 salgını, tıbbi sosyal çalışma, kanıta dayalı çalışma, örnek olay çalışması

The Pandemic: Reflections on Medical Social Work Practices in Turkey

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced a dynamic ground for medical social work that requires tackling unprecedented and unusual challenges. In this sense, the present study explored the impacts of the pandemic on medical social work practices in Turkey. Utilizing the snowball sampling technique, we performed in-depth interviews with fifteen medical social workers in the study employing a case study design. All the interviews, recorded upon the participants’ consent, were held online between July 3 and July 20, 2021 and then transcribed. The findings highlighted challenges in managing the pandemic, participants’ routines/changing routines, their resources, the impact of combating COVID-19 on social work interventions, the scope of the interventions, the reflections of the pandemic on the participants’ self-awareness and search for meaning, and the content of in-service training. While particularly relevant to medical social work practices, the pandemic-induced crises and traumas implied the applicability of the findings to both medical social work and other fields. As the research was an evidence-based study during the pandemic, it may help draw lessons for further practices and prepare contingency plans in emergencies.

Keywords

COVID-19 pandemic, medical social work, evidence-based study

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