Determination of parents’ COVID-19 anxiety, phobia, and traditional and complementary medicine practices used by parents: A descriptive study

Yıl 2025, Cilt: 12 Sayı: 3, 402 - 411, 30.09.2025

Ayçin Ezgi Önel , Elif Bulut , İlknur Kahriman

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Aim: To determine COVID-19 anxiety and phobia of parents with children aged 6-18 years and the preventive, traditional and complementary medicine practices of parents to protect their children against the risk of COVID-19.
Methods: The study was conducted between July and September 2021 with 220 parents using the snowball sampling method. The research data were collected through an online survey using the "Child-Parent Introduction Form, Parents' Preventive, Traditional and Complementary Medicine Practices Form, Coronavirus Anxiety Scale and Coronavirus-19 Phobia Scale". Descriptive statistics and correlation analysis were used to analyze the data.
Results: 55.5% of parents (n=122) utilized Traditional and Complementary Medicine (T&CM) practices to protect their children during the pandemic. The most common practice used by parents during COVID-19 is to ensure that the child drinks plenty of fluids (81.4%; nutrition-based). The mean total score of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale was 2.05±3.23 and the mean total score of the Coronavirus-19 Phobia Scale was 45.59±15.93. Parents who benefited from T&CM to protect their children had higher mean scores on the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale than parents who did not benefit from T&CM, and the difference between them was statistically significant (t=2.988; p<0.01).
Conclusion: In this study, parents with high anxiety levels benefited more from T&CM practices to protect their children during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this direction, it is necessary to ensure and support parents to cope with anxiety in order to useT&CM practices consciously.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Anxiety , COVID-19 , Parents , Traditional Medicine , Complementary Medicine

Ebeveynlerin COVID-19 anksiyetesi, fobisi ve kullandıkları geleneksel ve tamamlayıcı tıp uygulamalarının belirlenmesi: Tanımlayıcı bir çalışma

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Amaç: 6-18 yaş arası çocuğu olan ebeveynlerin COVID-19 anksiyete, fobi düzeyleri ve ebeveynlerin çocuklarını COVID-19 riskine karşı korumak için yaptıkları önleyici, geleneksel ve tamamlayıcı tıp uygulamalarını belirlemektir.
Yöntemler: Çalışma Temmuz-Eylül 2021 tarihleri arasında kartopu örnekleme yöntemi kullanılarak 220 ebeveyn ile gerçekleştirilmiştir. Araştırma verileri “Çocuk-Ebeveyn Tanışma Formu, Ebeveynlerin Koruyucu, Geleneksel ve Tamamlayıcı Tıp Uygulamaları Formu, Koronavirüs Anksiyete Ölçeği ve Koronavirüs-19 Fobi Ölçeği” kullanılarak çevrimiçi bir anket aracılığıyla toplanmıştır. Verilerin analizinde tanımlayıcı istatistikler ve korelasyon analizi kullanılmıştır.
Bulgular: Ebeveynlerin %55,5'i (n=122) pandemi sırasında çocuklarını korumak için Geleneksel ve Tamamlayıcı Tıp (GETAT) uygulamalarından yararlanmıştır. COVID-19 sırasında ebeveynler tarafından kullanılan en yaygın uygulama, çocuğun bol miktarda sıvı içmesini sağlamaktır (%81,4; beslenme temelli). Koronavirüs Anksiyete Ölçeği toplam puan ortalaması 2,05±3,23 ve Koronavirüs-19 Fobi Ölçeği toplam puan ortalaması 45,59±15,93'tür. Çocuklarını korumak için GETAT’tan yararlanan ebeveynlerin Koronavirüs Anksiyete Ölçeği puan ortalamaları GETAT’tan yararlanmayan ebeveynlere göre daha yüksekti ve aralarındaki fark istatistiksel olarak anlamlıydı (t=2.988; p<0.01).
Sonuç: Bu çalışmada, yüksek kaygı düzeyine sahip ebeveynler COVID-19 pandemisi sırasında çocuklarını korumak için GETAT uygulamalarından daha fazla yararlanmıştır. Bu doğrultuda, GETAT uygulamalarının bilinçli bir şekilde kullanılabilmesi için ebeveynlerin kaygı ile baş etmelerinin sağlanması ve desteklenmesi gerekmektedir.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Anksiyete , COVID-19 , Ebeveynler , Geleneksel Tıp , Tamamlayıcı Tıp

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