Attitudes of Nurses and Midwives Working in Şanlıurfa Regarding Children's Rights

Yıl 2025, Cilt: 9 Sayı: 3, 383 - 393, 30.09.2025

Fatma Bozdağ , Remziye İrem Fırtına , Hüseyin Sağlam

https://doi.org/10.46237/amusbfd.1562592

Öz

Objective: Children's rights are the rights that all children around the world are born with. This study was conducted to determine the attitudes of nurses and midwives working in Şanlıurfa towards children's rights.
Method: This study was descriptive in nature. The sample of the study consisted of 1013 of a total of 1250 nurses and midwives working in secondary health care organizations in Şanlıurfa. The data were collected between December 2022 and May 2023 using the Personal Information Form and the Attitude Scale on Children's Rights.
Results: The mean score of nurses and midwives on the scale of attitudes towards children's rights was found to be positive with 32.36±10.28. Despite this encouraging result, the majority of nurses and midwives stated that the rights of child rights were violated, that there was not enough awareness raising about children's rights and that they did not know the unit and procedures to report when they encountered a violation of children's rights. It was determined that nurses' and midwives' attitudes towards children's rights were affected by socio-demographic characteristics.
Conclusion: As a result, it was determined that nurses and midwives working in Şanlıurfa had positive attitudes towards children's rights. In order to further improve the attitudes of nurses and midwives towards children's rights, they should be informed about which units and how they should report when they encounter violations of children's rights. In addition, it is recommended to raise awareness at national and international level on the protection of children's rights and the implementation of children's right to health in extraordinary situations such as natural disasters, epidemics, war and conflicts.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Child rights , Nurse , Midwife , Pediatrics , Attitudes

Proje Numarası

Project No: 1919B012219260

Şanlıurfa'da Çalışan Hemşire ve Ebelerin Çocuk Haklarına İlişkin Tutumları

Öz

Amaç: Çocuk hakları, dünya üzerindeki tüm çocukların doğuştan kazandığı haklardır. Bu araştırma, Şanlıurfa'da çalışan hemşire ve ebelerin çocuk haklarına ilişkin tutumlarını belirlemek amacı ile gerçekleştirilmiştir. 
Yöntem: Bu çalışma tanımlayıcı tipte yapılmıştır. Araştırmanın örneklemini Şanlıurfa ilinde ikinci basamak sağlık kuruluşlarında çalışan toplam 1250 hemşire ve ebeden 1013'ü oluşturmuştur. Araştırma verileri Aralık 2022-Mayıs 2023 tarihleri arasında Kişisel Bilgi Formu ve Çocuk Haklarına İlişkin Tutum Ölçeği kullanılarak toplanmıştır.
Bulgular: Hemşire ve ebelerin çocuk haklarına ilişkin tutum ölçeğinden aldıkları puan ortalamalarının 32.36±10.28 ile olumlu olduğu saptanmıştır. Bu yüz güldürücü sonuca rağmen hemşire ve ebelerin çoğunluğu, çocuk haklarının ihlal edildiğini, çocuk haklarına yönelik yeterli bilinçlendirmenin yapılmadığını ve çocuk hakları ihlali ile karşılaştıklarında bildirim yapacakları birimi ve prosedürleri bilmediklerini ifade etmişlerdir. Hemşire ve ebelerin çocuk haklarına yönelik tutumlarının sosyo-demografik özelliklerden etkilendiği belirlenmiştir.
Sonuç: Sonuç olarak Şanlıurfa'da çalışan hemşire ve ebelerin çocuk haklarına ilişkin olumlu tutuma sahip oldukları belirlendi. Hemşire ve ebelerin çocuk haklarına ilişkin tutumlarını daha da iyileştirebilmek için çocuk hakları ihlali ile karşılaştıkları zaman hangi birimlere ve nasıl bildirim yapmaları gerektiği konusunda bilgilendirilmesi gerekmektedir. Ayrıca doğal afetlerde, salgınlarda, savaş ve çatışmalar gibi olağanüstü durumlarda çocuk haklarının korunmasına ve çocukların sağlık hakkının uygulanmasına yönelik ulusal ve uluslararası düzeyde bilinçlendirmenin yapılması önerilmektedir.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Çocuk hakları , Hemşire , Ebe , Pediatri , Tutum

Etik Beyan

Prior to the research, ethical approval was obtained from the Ethics Committee for Clinical Research of a state university on December 12, 2022, with approval number 2022/24/24, and institutional permissions were obtained from the hospitals where the research was conducted. Nurses and midwives provided verbal consent after the researchers explained the purpose and significance of the research. This study was conducted in accordance with research and publication ethics principles.

Destekleyen Kurum

This research was supported by TÜBİTAK within the scope of 2209-A University Students Research Projects Support Program 2022/2.

Proje Numarası

Project No: 1919B012219260

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