Turkish airline cabin crew members’ attitudes towards protection from infectious diseases in the context of their health responsibilities and health perceptions
Introduction: This paper investigated Turkish Airline cabin crew members’ attitudes towards protection from infectious diseases in the context of their health responsibilities and health perceptions. Materials and methods: The study adopted a descriptive research design. The sample consisted of 686...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:d0af13c592574594a78b37b0a022b10f 2023-09-05T13:17:35+02:00 Turkish airline cabin crew members’ attitudes towards protection from infectious diseases in the context of their health responsibilities and health perceptions Gönül Gökçay Ayşe Çevirme 2023-07-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmaid.2023.102623 https://doaj.org/article/d0af13c592574594a78b37b0a022b10f EN eng Elsevier http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1477893923000832 https://doaj.org/toc/1873-0442 1873-0442 doi:10.1016/j.tmaid.2023.102623 https://doaj.org/article/d0af13c592574594a78b37b0a022b10f Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, Vol 54, Iss , Pp 102623- (2023) Cabin crew Health perception Health responsibility Infectious diseases Prevention Attitude Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216 article 2023 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmaid.2023.102623 2023-08-13T00:36:03Z Introduction: This paper investigated Turkish Airline cabin crew members’ attitudes towards protection from infectious diseases in the context of their health responsibilities and health perceptions. Materials and methods: The study adopted a descriptive research design. The sample consisted of 686 cabin crew members. Data were collected online using a sociodemographic characteristics questionnaire, a scale of attitudes towards infectious diseases, the Health Perception Scale(HPS), and the Health Responsibility subscale(HRS) of the Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors Scale(HLBS). The data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS, v. 20.0). Number, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, f test, and correlation were used for analysis. Results: Participants had a mean HPS and HRS score of 56.12 ± 8.22 and 24.50 ± 7.05, respectively. The difference between the participants' marital status, position in the workplace, age group, number of children, occupational experience, exposure to communicable diseases, training on prevention from communicable diseases, voluntary vaccination status, and HPS and HRS scores were statistically significant(p < .05). Conclusion: There was a strong correlation between HPS and HRS scores(r = 0.664). Cabin crew members’ health perceptions and health responsibilities were affected by numerous factors. Suggestions were made to cabin crew members pertaining to infectious diseases and ways of protecting from them. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease 54 102623 |
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Introduction: This paper investigated Turkish Airline cabin crew members’ attitudes towards protection from infectious diseases in the context of their health responsibilities and health perceptions. Materials and methods: The study adopted a descriptive research design. The sample consisted of 686 cabin crew members. Data were collected online using a sociodemographic characteristics questionnaire, a scale of attitudes towards infectious diseases, the Health Perception Scale(HPS), and the Health Responsibility subscale(HRS) of the Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors Scale(HLBS). The data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS, v. 20.0). Number, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, f test, and correlation were used for analysis. Results: Participants had a mean HPS and HRS score of 56.12 ± 8.22 and 24.50 ± 7.05, respectively. The difference between the participants' marital status, position in the workplace, age group, number of children, occupational experience, exposure to communicable diseases, training on prevention from communicable diseases, voluntary vaccination status, and HPS and HRS scores were statistically significant(p < .05). Conclusion: There was a strong correlation between HPS and HRS scores(r = 0.664). Cabin crew members’ health perceptions and health responsibilities were affected by numerous factors. Suggestions were made to cabin crew members pertaining to infectious diseases and ways of protecting from them. |
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Turkish airline cabin crew members’ attitudes towards protection from infectious diseases in the context of their health responsibilities and health perceptions |
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