Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi 2020-2021 Eğitim Yılı Dönem 3 Öğrencileri Kanıta Dayalı Tıp Çalışmaları Özetleri

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Aim: Evidence-based medicine practices are important in terms of reaching real information in the most reliable way and developing scientific and critical thinking. The need for new information in medicine causes the spread of evidence-based medicine practices. Continuing medical education is also recognized as an important part of evidence-based medicine. The aim of the evidence-based medicine practices in our faculty is to make the medical faculty students understand the importance of evidence-based medicine, to enable them to take part in a scientific study and to teach these study steps. Materials and Methods: Studies within the scope of evidence-based medicine are carried out by Term 3 students of the Faculty of Medicine. They are divided into groups by the responsible academic member of the course. Responsible research faculty member is determined for each group. Students come together on the dates determined in the curriculum and finalize the title of the research topic. An ethics committee form is prepared and an application is made to the ethics committee. After the study is concluded, it is turned into a summary/article and the summarized studies are presented and discussed. Results: Within the scope of evidence-based medicine carried out in the 2020-2021 Education and Training period, 194 Term 3 students worked. A total of 15 different studies were conducted under the supervision of a responsible faculty members on current issues such as cancer, sleep, sun damage, new social life and sexual myths, especially the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and studies on vaccines. The titles of these studies and the responsible faculty members are given in Table-1. Prepared abstracts were presented and discussed on the digital platform. All Term 3 students carried out all stages of a scientific study in online learning environments and successfully completed their studies in the 2020-2021 Education and Training period when they received distance education due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ABSTRACT Aim: Cervical cancer is the third most common female cancer in the world and most of the new cases are reported from underdeveloped regions. Human papilloma virus (HPV) is known to cause cervical cancer. In our study, it was aimed to evaluate and compare the knowledge levels on the HPV and HPV vaccine of the preclinical medical students with the other university students outside the medicine and health sciences faculties Material and Methods: Our descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted between February 15 and March 15, 2021 with pre-clinical medical faculty students and the other university students outside the medicine and health sciences faculties. A two-stage electronic questionnaire consisting of socio-demographic questions and HPV Knowledge Scale was applied to 303 participants (N = 303), who were determined by the convenience sampling method. Mann Whitney U, Kruskal Wallis and Spearman correlation tests were used for the analysis of non-normally distributed data, p <0.05 was considered significant. Results: It was determined that 68.3% of the participants were female (n = 207), 31.7% were male (n = 96) and their mean age was 20.94 ± 1.69. It was observed that 39.6% of the participants (n = 120) were pre-clinical medical faculty students, and 60.4% (n = 183) were students from other faculties. When HPV Knowledge Scale scores were compared; It was observed that the scores of the pre-clinical medical faculty students among the students studying at faculties outside medicine and health sciences were significantly higher. It was determined that there was no difference between the scale scores in terms of sociodemographic characteristics such as gender and monthly income of the participants (p> 0.05). It was found that there was a significant difference (p <0.005) in terms of HPV Knowledge Scale scores among the education of the mother and father, knowledge of sexually transmitted diseases, hearing and knowledge of cervical cancer, source for obtaining information about cervical cancer, the place of residence during the education period, the region where he spent the longest part of his life, and the regions where his faculty is located. Conclusion: Various social and demographic characteristics affect HPV Knowledge Scale scores. These features can be taken into account in screening and vaccination programs. ABSTRACT Aim: The aim of this study is to evaluate the factors affecting smoking in medical students during the Covid-19 pandemic and the relationship with fear of Covid-19. Materials and Methods: 293 medical faculty students of a university in Zonguldak were included in this descriptive and cross-sectional study. Questionnaires were sent to the participants electronically, and volunteers were included in the study. The data were collected using a questionnaire about the sociodemographic characteristics and smoking habits of the students, the Covid 19 fear scale and the Fagerström nicotine addiction test. Results: The mean age of the participants was 21.38 ± 04 and 70.6% were female. 17.7% of the students were active smokers. 7.1% of the students who never smoked had the idea of starting smoking during the pandemic period. 64.5% of the students who quit smoking made this decision during the pandemic period. 54.5% of those former smokers, quit smoking due to the anxiety of getting sick and existing illnesses and 74.2% of them did not think to start smoking again. 69.2% of the active smoker students had a low level of addiction and during the pandemic period, 38.4% of them did not change the amount of cigarettes they smoke, however 34.6% of them decreased and 27% of them increased. It was determined that the smoking ban, public service ads and news about cigarette did not cause any change in cigarette consumption. Also there were no change in opinions about smoking of active smokers who had Covid-19 infection. The mean Covid-19 fear score of the students was 18.71 ± 4.91, and a moderate level of fear was detected. Covid-19 fear level was statistically higher in female students compared to males (p = 0.001). There was no significant difference between other sociodemographic and smoking characteristics and Covid-19 fear level (p> 0.05). Conclusion: The fear of Covid-19 in students was moderate level, and it was higher in female students. The majority of former smokers quit smoking in pandemic period. It was determined that smoking ban, public spots and news about smoking, having a Covid-19 infection did not lead to a change in cigarette consumption. ABSTRACT Aim: We have left 1.5 years behind in the Covid-19 outbreak, which was first reported from Wuhan, China on December 31, 2019. In this duration firstly health workers and then the world are affected in the worst way. Both the physical problems caused by the worldwide quarantine and the psychological problems caused by social isolation increased considerably during this one and half year. The opinion that the sooner the vaccine is made, the faster the epidemic can be overcome, has dominated the whole world. In this period, various vaccine companies and many countries; conducted studies on many vaccine types with different techniques. There has also been a considerable increase in the population rejecting all vaccines that have been in existence for a long time. This situation has pushed the public and medical students who think that they should have sufficient knowledge about vaccination to do research. Our aim in our study is to learn the views of medical faculty students about vaccine and vaccine researches, including the Covid-19 vaccine. Materials and Methods: Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we had to do this research on an online platform. Results: According to our results, the average age of the participants is 21.28. 87.6% of the participants think that vaccines are effective in preventing diseases. In the study, a significant relationship was found between whether the participants had sufficient knowledge about vaccines and whether they were preclinical/clinical students (p=0.001). 91% of 11 people who think that they do not know about vaccines are preclinical students. The most frequently used information sources in our study; television, internet articles, social media and Turkish ministry of health data. When we compared this data with similar studies, we encountered similar results. The biggest reason for our participants who did not plan to get vaccinated was the thought that there were not enough studies and fear of side effects the vaccine. Conclusion: As a result, we see that participants in this study may have hesitations about vaccines and vaccine studies, even if they are medical students. ABSTRACT Aim: The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected the functioning of medical school education in both the world and Turkey, and many universities have decided to offer distance education in this process. The aim of this study is to survey the effect of the pandemic and distance education on the learning habits, professional projections and mental health of the students of Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University Faculty of Medicine. Materials and Methods: Students have answered an online multiple choice survey from 3.29.2021 to 4.30.2021. Results: 182 students answered. While the number of students that want to become a doctor in Turkey was 98 (53.9%) before the pandemic, this number has decreased to 55 (30.2%) after the pandemic. The number of students that had worries of occupational diseases increased from 83 (45.6%) to 165 (90.7%) after the pandemic. 166 (91.2%) of the responders think doctors in Turkey don’t get the appreciation they Conclusion: According to the results of our study, it was observed that the COVID-19 pandemic changed the professional projections of medical faculty students, increased the uncertainty of the students’ professional projections and the number of those who do not want to do their medical profession. In the response