The problems during choice of profession and comparison of these problems with anxiety and depression in final year of high school students

Objective: We aimed to investigate the relationship between prevalence of anxiety, depressive disorder symptoms and some sociodemographic variables in the final year of high-school students, secondly to determine the socio-economic and cultural factors which affect choosing professions among the high school senior students in the province of Van. Methods: In this context, the study was performed in the provincial center of Van in the second semester of 2011. Unpaired t test and one way Anova test were used for statistical analysis. Socio-demographic Information Form, Awareness of Career Choice Form, Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), and Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) were applied to a total of 412 students. Results: In this study BAI and BDI scores were 15.4±13.3 and 15.3±12.8 respectively. BAI scores of the students in Anatolian high school were found higher than the normal high school. Both the anxiety and depressive levels of female students were higher than the males. The mean age was 16,8 years, 73.8% of whom were male. In 58% of the students’ BAI point, in 66% BDI point were higher than 41; and in 37% BDI point were higher than 17. Female students had higher BAI points. There was a positive correlation between BAI and BDI points. Conclusion: It was noticed in our study that the great amount of anxiety discovered in last grade high school students affect. The student’s job choice negatively. We think that providing last grade high school students with guidance service about job selection will be useful

Smoking habits of nurses and midwives and their attitudes tobacco control; a primary care based study from four major cities of Turkey

Saritas, Ayhan/0000-0002-4302-1093;WOS: 000314345000005It was aimed to investigate smoking habits, knowledge about and attitudes towards tobacco control among nurses and midwifes at primary care settings in Turkey. A cross-sectional survey was applied to nurses/midwives at primary care settings. 1063 surveys were analyzed in the study. Mean age of nurses/midwives was 33.7 +/- 6.3. Current, former and never smokers' ratio among nurses/midwives were 30.1 %, 10.6 % and 59.3 %, respectively. Knowledge of nurses/midwives was observed as quite high. Majority of never smokers significantly marked as higher agreement with items related to knowledge level about smoking by than ever smokers. The lowest ratio was observed in agreement with item of "Pharmacotherapy is efficient for smoking cessation" (46.6 %). the highest ratio was observed in agreement with item of "Health professionals should routinely advise patients to avoid smoking around their children" (97.5 %). Significant differences were observed in statement of agreement with items related to attitudes of the nurses/midwives towards smoking and tobacco control between never and ever smokers. Almost all of the nurses/midwives had no any training course on smoking cessation practice (99.6 %). Majority of them were not competent for preparedness in smoking cessation (competent: 17.4 % vs. incompetent or somewhat: 82.6 %). In conclusion, knowledge and skills in smoking cessation practice and attitudes towards smoking and tobacco control in nurses/midwives were observed as low and somewhat high. Therefore, an appropriate education program should be instituted to increase motivation of them about their role in society and smoking cessation practice