Turkiye Klinikleri Journal of Nursing Sciences

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Ergenlerde İnternet Bağımlılığı ile İlişkili Ailesel Faktörler ve Hemşirelik Bakımı
Familial Factors Associated with Internet Addiction in Adolescents and Nursing Care
Arif ÖZPARLAKa, Dudu KARAKAYAa
aAkdeniz Üniversitesi Hemşirelik Fakültesi, Psikiyatri Hemşireliği ABD, Antalya, TÜRKİYE
Turkiye Klinikleri J Nurs Sci. 2020;12(2):291-9
doi: 10.5336/nurses.2019-72911
Article Language: TR
Full Text
ÖZET
 Ergenlik dönemi internet bağımlılığı için riskli bir dönemdir. Yapılan çalışmalar, ergenlerde internet bağımlılığı oranlarının yüksek olduğunu göstermektedir. Ergenlerde internet bağımlılığı oranlarının yüksek olması ailelerin etkilenmesine neden olurken, aile ile ilişkili birçok faktör de ergenlerde internet bağımlılığı oranını etkilemektedir. Hemşireler, internet bağımlılığı riski olan ya da sorunu olan ergen ve ailelere bakım vermede, aile ile ilişkili faktörleri göz önünde bulundurarak aile içi süreçlerin devamlılığını sağlayabilir ve internet bağımlılığını önlemede katkıda bulunabilirler. Bu çalışmanın amacı, ergenlerde internet bağımlılığı ile ilişkili ailesel faktörleri gözden geçirmek ve hemşirelik bakımına yönelik önerilerde bulunmaktır. Yapılan çalışmalarda, ergenlerde internet bağımlılığı ile aile çatışmaları, aile işlevselliği, aile ekonomik durumu, aile desteği, aile sağlamlığı, ebeveyn izlemi, ebeveynin problemli alkol kullanımı, internet kullanımına yönelik ebeveynlik stilleri, ebeveyndeki ruhsal belirtiler, ebeveynin fiziksel şiddeti, ebeveyn fiziksel ve psikolojik ihmali ve ebeveyn-çocuk ilişki kalitesi arasında ilişki bulunmuştur. Hemşireler, aile içi süreçlerin devamlılığında bozulma, aile baş etmesinde yetersizlik, ebeveynlikte yetersizlik ve ebeveynlikte güçlendirmeye hazır oluş tanıları kapsamında ailelere bakım verebilir. Ailelerin internet bağımlılığını önlemede önemli bir rolü vardır. Ergenlerin aşırı internet kullanımını en aza indirmek için hemşirelik bakım uygulamalarında ve önleme programlarında ailenin ve aile ile ilişkili faktörlerin göz önünde bulundurulması önerilmektedir.

Anahtar Kelimeler: Adölesan; aile; bağımlılık; hemşirelik, internet
ABSTRACT
 Adolescence is a risky period for internet addiction. Studies show that internet addiction rates are high in adolescents. While high levels of internet addiction in adolescents cause families to be affected, many family-related factors affect the rate of internet addiction in adolescents. Nurses can provide continuity of family processes by taking into consideration family related factors in the care of adolescents and families who have risk or problems with internet addiction and can contribute to prevent internet addiction. The aim of this review is to examine familial factors associated with internet addiction in adolescents and to make recommendations for nursing care. In the studies conducted, have found a relationship between internet addiction and family conflicts, family functionality, family economic status, family support, family intactness, parental monitoring, parent's problematic alcohol use, parenting styles for internet use, parental psychological symptoms, physical violence, physical and psychological neglect of parents and parental-child relational quality in adolescents. Nurses can provide care to families within the scope of diagnoses of interrupted family processes, disabled family coping, impaired parenting and readiness for enhanced parenting.Families have an important role to play in preventing internet addiction. In order to minimize excessive internet use of adolescents, it is recommended to consider family and family related factors in nursing care practices and prevention programs.

Keywords: Adolescence; family; dependency; nursing; internet
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5.1. The information accessed through this "SITE" or provided by the users legally and all the elements (including but not limited to design, text, image, html code and other codes) of the "SITE" (all of them will be called as studies tied to "Turkiye Klinikleri"s copyrights) belongs to "Turkiye Klinikleri". Users do not have the right to resell, process, share, distribute, display or give someone permission to access or to use the "Turkiye Klinikleri" services, "Turkiye Klinikleri" information and the products under copyright protection by "Turkiye Klinikleri". Within hereby "Terms of Use" unless explicitly permitted by "Turkiye Klinikleri" nobody can reproduce, process, distribute or produce or prepare any study from those under "Turkiye Klinikleri" copyright protection.

5.2. Within hereby "Terms of Use", "Turkiye Klinikleri" reserves the rights for "Turkiye Klinikleri" services, "Turkiye Klinikleri" information, the products associated with "Turkiye Klinikleri" copyrights, "Turkiye Klinikleri" trademarks, "Turkiye Klinikleri" trade looks or its all rights for other entity and information it has through this website unless it is explicitly authorized by "Turkiye Klinikleri".

6. CHANGES IN THE TERMS OF USE

"Turkiye Klinikleri" in its sole discretion may change the hereby "Terms of Use" anytime announcing within the "SITE". The changed terms of the hereby "Terms of Use" will become valid when they are announced. Hereby "Terms of Use" cannot be changed by unilateral declarations of users.

7. FORCE MAJEURE

"Turkiye Klinikleri" is not responsible for executing late or never of this hereby "Terms of Use", privacy policy and "USER Contract" in any situation legally taken into account as force majeure. Being late or failure of performance or non-defaulting of this and similar cases like this will not be the case from the viewpoint of "Turkiye Klinikleri", and "Turkiye Klinikleri" will not have any damage liability for these situations. "Force majeure" term will be regarded as outside of the concerned party's reasonable control and any situation that "Turkiye Klinikleri" cannot prevent even though it shows due diligence. Also, force majeure situations include but not limited to natural disasters, rebellion, war, strike, communication problems, infrastructure and internet failure, power cut and bad weather conditions.

8. LAW AND AUTHORISATION TO FOLLOW

Turkish Law will be applied in practicing, interpreting the hereby "Terms of Use" and managing the emerging legal relationships within this "Terms of Use" in case of finding element of foreignness, except for the rules of Turkish conflict of laws. Ankara Courts and Enforcement Offices are entitled in any controversy happened or may happen due to hereby contract.

9. CLOSING AND AGREEMENT

Hereby "Terms of Use" come into force when announced in the "SITE" by "Turkiye Klinikleri". The users are regarded to agree to hereby contract terms by using the "SITE". "Turkiye Klinikleri" may change the contract terms and the changes will be come into force by specifying the version number and the date of change on time it is published in the "SITE".

 

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Privacy Policy

We recommend you to read the terms of use below before you visit our website. In case you agree these terms, following our rules will be to your favor. Please read our Terms of Use thoroughly.

www.turkiyeklinikleri.com website belongs to Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. and is designed in order to inform physicians in the field of health

www.turkiyeklinikleri.com cannot reach to user’s identity, address, service providers or other information. The users may send this information to the website through forms if they would like to. However, www.turkiyeklinikleri.com may collect your hardware and software information. The information consists of your IP address, browser type, operating system, domain name, access time, and related websites. www.turkiyeklinikleri.com cannot sell the provided user information (your name, e-mail address, home and work address, phone number) to the third parties, publish it publicly, or keep it in the website. Gathered information has a directing feature to be a source for the website’s visitor profile, reporting and promotion of the services.

www.turkiyeklinikleri.com uses the taken information:

-To enhance, improve and maintain the quality of the website

-To generate visitor’s profile and statistical data

-To determine the tendency of the visitors on using our website

-To send print publications/correspondences

-To send press releases or notifications through e-mail

-To generate a list for an event or competition

By using www.turkiyeklinikleri.com you are considered to agree that;

-Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. cannot be hold responsible for any user’s illegal and immoral behavior,

-Terms of use may change from time to time,

-It is not responsible for other websites’ contents it cannot control or the harms they may cause although it uses the connection they provided.

Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. may block the website to users in the following events:

-Information with wrong, incomplete, deceiving or immoral expressions is recorded to the website,

-Proclamation, advertisement, announcement, libelous expressions are used against natural person or legal identity,

-During various attacks to the website,

-Disruption of the website because of a virus.

Written, visual and audible materials of the website, including the code and the software are under protection by legal legislation.

Without the written consent of Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. the information on the website cannot be downloaded, changed, reproduced, copied, republished, posted or distributed.

All rights of the software and the design of the website belong to Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc.

Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. will be pleased to hear your comments about our terms of use. Please share the subjects you think may enrich our website or if there is any problem regarding our website.

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