Sağlık Bilimleri Fakültesi / Faculty of Health Sciences
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Item The Impact of National Culture on the Increase of COVID-19: A Cross-Country Analysis of European Countries(2021) Gokmen, Yunus; Baskici, Cigdem; Ercil, Yavuz; 0000-0002-6107-0577; 0000-0003-0712-1481; 33518841In recent years, countries have been fighting with increasing momentum against outbreaks. This struggle requires the effective implementation of several measures that are required in medical science. However, the cultural characteristics of each society prevent these measures from being applied in the same way globally. One area in which social scientists have not applied much effort is observing the impact of countries' cultural characteristics in the fight against outbreaks. Therefore, this study aims to determine whether cultural differences among countries have an impact on their fight against outbreaks. This study uses the COVID-19 pandemic?s total cases and selected European countries' cultural dimension scores as data. Due to the differences in the measurement units of cultural and outbreak variables, a stepwise multiple logarithmic regression analysis is preferred to select the proper regression model. The results have shown that power distance has a significant and negative effect on the increase rate of the total COVID-19 cases per million (IRTCCPM). In addition, the results have demonstrated that both individualism and in-dulgence have significant and positive effects on IRTCCPM, at the 95 % confidence level. How -ever, the hypotheses concerning the impacts of masculinity, uncertainty avoidance, and long-term orientation on the IRTCCPM are rejected at the alpha = 0.05 level. In light of the findings of this study, it can be asserted that countries act in harmony with their cultural characteristics in the formal or informal practices of their fight against outbreaks. The contributions of the study can be discussed in academic and practical fields.Item Challenges and needs of informal caregivers in elderly care: Qualitative research in four European countries, the TRACE project(2020) Akgun-Citak, Ebru; Attepe-Ozden, Seda; Kav, Sultan; Acar, Sema; Aksoydan, Emine; Altintas, Atahan; Aytar, Aydan; Baskici, Cigdem; Kiziltan, Gul; 0000-0003-0361-7498; 0000-0002-0484-4687; 31756568; V-9745-2019; ABD-7108-2020Background: Providing informal care may affects caregivers' life in different ways. Determining the needs of caregivers and supporting them can improve both the quality of life of the caregivers, as well as the elderly they take care of. Objective: To explore the experiences and needs of the informal caregivers in four countries. Design: Qualitative research method was used in the study. Methods: The qualitative data was collected through focus groups and individual interviews between December 2016-May 2017. In all countries interviews were conducted in the mother language of the informants. Informants of the qualitative research were adult people who take primary care of an individual with chronic diseases, aged 65 years or older. Data were collected from 72 informal caregivers from four European countries. Inductive content analysis was performed. Results: Informal caregivers identified 2 themes, 5 subthemes, 19 categories and 7 subtcategories. The themes highlighted two major issues: informal caregiver's challenges and needs related to the management of care of elderly and caregivers' personal needs. Conclusion: The important and charming results of the present study are, difficulties of managing caregiver's own life, and coping with emotions are common in four countries. Identifying challenges and needs of informal caregivers enable healthcare professionals to develop care strategies and plan interventions focused to support and help to reduce the burden of care for elderly with chronic diseases.Item SOURCES THAT MANAGERS PREFER FOR BUSINESS INFORMATION NEEDS(2019) Baskici, Cigdem; AAI-6607-2020This study aims to reveal how business managers associate their information needs and the information sources to meet these needs. In order to answer this question, face-to-face interviews were carried out with a total of 327 business managers working in various sectors. Information sources are encoded by using content analysis with personal and non-personal, internal and external dimensions. Results obtained have shown that managers mainly prefer non-personal information sources. Accordingly, business managers who face problems of sustainability and competitiveness seek personal and internal information while those who face problems of growth and innovation seek non-personal and external information. As for the problem profitability, managers refer to non-personal and internal information. The findings aim to contribute to strategic management and environmental scanning literature as well as to implementers. The research results might be guiding for identifying the information needs of managers in a more focused way and meeting this need more efficiently.Item Authors at the boundary: Interaction of local and general scientific literature(2018) Baskici, Cigdem; Atan, Suat; Ecil, Yavuz; 27467573How a scientific literature is shaped both at the local and general level is an important question to answer. One practical way of achieving this task is to identify the roles played by authors (academicians) as actors creating and disseminating knowledge in the relevant literature. To this end, this study examines roles undertaken by authors in the field of learning organizations. Identifying role typologies first requires revealing the author citation network in the field. Citation network is a matrix that summarizes citations and citation numbers between authors. To construct this matrix, articles in the local and general literature in the field of learning organizations, published and indexed between January 01, 2015 and February 20, 2017, were collected from Google Scholar by using the Java-based Selenium Library. An author citation network with 19,525 actors was created from this list. A social network analysis was conducted to identify author roles, followed by a discussion of what these roles mean for the local literature. Despite defining four typologies, observing only one type of role typology indicates that the local literature is not well integrated with the general literature. This study recommends strategic assessments for increasing the contribution ability of local literature to general one. Using this approach, it would be possible to find answers to the questions of which roles to develop via which authors and relationships, and how to remove the obstacles to development of local literature.