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ArticleHealth promotion international2023

Gender differences in sense of coherence among university students during the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey.

Ilker Kayi, Gizem Uzunköprü, Kevin Dadaczynski, Pınar Soylar, Buğra Otludil, Pınar Dündar, Nadi Bakırcı, Orkan Okan, Sibel Sakarya

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Article in Health promotion international, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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9 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

Ilker KayiDepartment of Public Health, Koç University School of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey.ORCID 0000-0002-4115-6613
Gizem UzunköprüKoç University School of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey.
Kevin DadaczynskiDepartment of Health Science, Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Fulda, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7367-5362
Pınar SoylarDepartment of Health Sciences, Nursing School, Fırat University, Elazığ, Turkey.
Buğra OtludilKoç University School of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey.
Pınar DündarDepartment of Public Health, Celal Bayar University School of Medicine, Manisa, Turkey.
Nadi BakırcıAcıbadem University School of Medicine, Dean, İstanbul, Turkey.
Orkan OkanTechnical University Munich, TUM Department of Sports and Health Science, Munich, Germany.
Sibel SakaryaDepartment of Public Health, Koç University School of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey.
Koç University · TRAcıbadem University · TRFırat University · TRLeuphana University of Lüneburg · DEManisa Celal Bayar University · TRTechnical University of Munich · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) implemented to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic halted everyday life in higher education along with social and psychological impacts. The objective of our study was to explore the factors related to sense of coherence (SoC) from a gender perspective among university students in Turkey. This is a cross-sectional survey conducted online with a convenience sampling method as part of the international COVID-Health Literacy (COVID-HL) Consortium. SoC was measured by a nine-item questionnaire that was adapted to the Turkish language, including socio-demographic information and health status, including psychological well-being, psychosomatic complaints, and future anxiety (FA). 1595 students from four universities, of whom 72% were female, participated in the study. Cronbach's alpha for the SoC scale was 0.75. Based on the median split of the individual scores, levels of SoC showed no statistically significant difference according to gender. Logistic regression analysis indicated that higher SoC was associated with medium and high subjective social status, studying in private universities, high psychological well-being, low FA, and none/one psychosomatic complaint. While results were similar among female students, type of university and psychological well-being showed no statistically significant association with SoC among males. Our results indicate that structural (subjective social status) and contextual (type of university) factors, along with gender-based variations, are associated with SoC among university students in Turkey.

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COVID-19Sense of CoherenceCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHumansMalePandemicsSex FactorsStudentsTurkeyUniversitiesCOVID-19genderhigher educationpsychological well-beingpsychosomatic complaintssense of coherence

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PMCPMC10243759
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