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Nurses' perceptions about health sector privatization in Turkey
Author(s) -
Harmanci Seren A.K.,
Yildirim A.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international nursing review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.84
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1466-7657
pISSN - 0020-8132
DOI - 10.1111/inr.12037
Subject(s) - nursing , health sector , perception , medicine , psychology , business , health services , environmental health , population , neuroscience
Aim The aim of this study is to identify the perceptions of the nurses about the privatization implementation, as it pertains to privatization, health services privatization and the impact of privatization on nursing in T urkey. Background T urkey is taking important steps in health services privatization but the related choices made in political arena are not shared with the employees of the health institutions where the privatization implementations are to take place. Methods The study was conducted among nurses who are working for the state health institutions and the members of professional organizations of healthcare workers, which are operating in I stanbul in T urkey. Data were collected via N urses' P rivatization P erception S cale in 2009 and were analysed using mean calculations, analysis of variance, M ann– W hitney U ‐test, t ‐test, K ruskal–Wallis test and C ronbach's alpha analyses. Findings Nurses' perceptions of privatization in general, health services privatization and the impact of privatization on nursing were found to be negative in all of the three sub‐domains of the scale, as well as their perceptions of privatization implementations measured throughout the scale. The conducted comparisons showed that nurses' perceptions of the privatization implementations varied in accordance with independent variables. Conclusions The privatization implementations put in place in health services are perceived negatively by nurses. Policy makers in relevant fields are recommended to take the findings of this study into consideration.