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Educational Needs Of Families In Turkey
Table 3: Opinions of the Participants about Competence and Educational Needs of Family With Regard
To Health Matters
Health Matters Concerning Family Members Frequency
First Aid 32
Healthy Nutrition 24
Maternal and Infant Health 23
Mental Health 21
Conscious Use of Drug 17
Sexual Health 10
Mouth and Dental Health 10
Care of Patients / Old People 5
The qualitative research findings indicate that families want to learn and have
knowledge about first aid against problems they can encounter in their daily lives. In
addition, family members stated that comprehensive first aid training must be given.
Raising awareness of the individuals in the matter of first aid means taking precautions
against possible accidents beforehand. Family members mentioned that nutrition is a
topic, which prospective mothers must focus on momentously in the pregnancy.
According to family members, mental health refers to the state of mind in which
individual is distant from anxiety and symptoms causing disturbing function loss, he or
she adapts to roles loaded on himself or herself and on the society, where he or she
lives, and he or she can cope with expectations and stress of the daily life within normal
limits. Problems relating to mental health can come out in every period within the
entire development line of the individual. In this sense, different problems relating to
mental health can be encountered in antenatal period, infancy, childhood, youth, marriage
or domestic relations, middle age and oldness. In any of these developmental
periods, individual may encounter some events he or she does not desire within flow of
the life, and as result he or she may experience psychological shocks.
Family members mentioned that it is important to obey principles of food chain in
all of the stages from healthiness and cleanliness of foods to their carriage from the
production, their storage, and cooking, serving and consuming these foods. Moreover,
it was stressed that it is important to raise awareness of the families in the matter of
drug use.