TY - JOUR T1 - Hand Hygiene Behaviors in Adult Individuals During the COVID-19 Pandemic: What Changed? TT - COVID-19 Pandemisi Sırasında Yetişkin Bireylerde El Hijyen Davranışları: Ne Değişti? AU - Sayın Kasar, Kadriye AU - Karaman, Emine AU - Yıldırım, Yasemin PY - 2023 DA - April DO - 10.46483/deuhfed.1009461 JF - Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Hemşirelik Fakültesi Elektronik Dergisi JO - DEUHFED PB - Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi WT - DergiPark SN - 2149-0333 SP - 189 EP - 200 VL - 16 IS - 2 LA - en AB - Background: Hand washing is vital to prevent the spread of the agent from person to person during epidemic periods and to reduce the impact of the pandemic on people’s lives, health, livelihoods and health system.Objective: This study was conducted to examine the hand hygiene behavior of adults during the COVID-19 pandemic period.Methods: This descriptive and cross-sectional study was completed between 15 October 2020 and 30 November 2020 via Google Forms with 627 adult individuals. The data were collected with a questionnaire form created by the researchers as a result of the relevant literature review.Results: During the pandemic period, 91.4% of the participants stated that the habit of hand washing increased. It was observed that handwashing status of participants during the pandemic process changed in terms of age group, gender and those who considerg hand hygiene important in combating the epidemic (p KW - COVID-19 Pandemic KW - Hand Hygiene KW - Outbreak KW - Adult Individuals KW - Nursing N2 - Giriş: El yıkama, salgın dönemlerinde etkenin kişiden kişiye yayılmasını önlemek ve pandeminin bireylerin yaşamı, sağlığı, geçim kaynakları ve sağlık sistemi üzerindeki etkisini azaltmak için hayati önem taşımaktadır.Amaç: Bu çalışma, COVID-19 pandemi döneminde yetişkinlerin el hijyeni davranışlarını incelemek amacıyla yapılmıştır.Yöntem: Tanımlayıcı ve kesitsel tipteki bu araştırma 15 Ekim 2020 - 30 Kasım 2020 arasında Google Forms aracılığıyla 627 yetişkin birey ile tamamlanmıştır. Veriler, ilgili literatür taraması sonucunda araştırmacılar tarafından oluşturulan anket formu ile toplanmıştır.Bulgular: Pandemi döneminde katılımcıların %91.4’ü el yıkama alışkanlığının arttığını belirtmektedir. 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