Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES IN CLINICAL PRACTICE, cilt.36, ss.39-42, 2019 (SCI-Expanded)
As a result of the study, it was found that a vast majority of the
nurses had no sufficient knowledge about apitherapy. Additionally, the
nurses acquired information about apitherapy from unreliable sources
such as the Internet. Furthermore, it was found that the nurses used
minimum one apitherapy product and the most commonly used product
was honey. The nurses considered that apitherapy products could be
used to treat diseases such as the immune system, digestive system, and
respiratory tract diseases.
Based on these results, it can be asserted that the nurses had no
sufficient and accurate knowledge about apitherapy. Also, the knowledge and usage levels of the nurses for other bee products, except for
honey, were low. This reveals the importance of informing nurses about
apitherapy during their education process. Nurses need to first have
sufficient knowledge and qualification about apitherapy in order to
accurately guide patients and their relatives about this subject. It is
recommended to include apitherapy and other CIM methods in nursing
curricula and also to conduct such studies with larger populations and
all healthcare professionals to determine their current knowledge and
practices about apitherapy.