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- MakaleAçık Erişim2025Scopus SJRQ3COMPREHENDING GASTRONOMY FESTIVALS: A QUALITATIVE CASE STUDY ON ALANYA TROPICAL FRUIT FESTIVAL
Güden, Gökay; Nebi̇Oğlu, Oğuz
This study investigates the motivations for organizing gastronomy festivals, their management, the strategic approaches followed, and their role in tourism. The selected research area is Alanya in Turkey, which has recently emphasized gastronomy in its tourism-based activities, including through a tropical fruit festival. For this qualitative case study, data were collected using document analysis, a focus group, and face-to-face interviews. First, documents were obtained to understand Alanya’s festival history. A focus group meeting was then organized to prepare a semi-structured interview form. Finally, face-to-face interviews were conducted with the people responsible for the organization of Alanya Tropical Fruit Festival. The data were subjected to content analysis. The findings indicated that the festival is organized in Alanya for social, cultural, economic, and political reasons while festival management includes design, planning, operation, and evaluation processes. Resource-based strategies and emerging strategies are important while the festival plays encouraging, supportive, and complementary roles in the region’s tourism. These findings have several theoretical and practical implications.
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İncele - MakaleYalnız künye2016Scopus SJRQ1Cultural perceptions and clinical experiences of nursing students in Eastern Turkey
Karatay, G.; Bowers, B.; Karadag, E. B.; Demir, M. C.
Aim: This study explored Turkish nursing students' perceptions of providing care to patients culturally different from themselves. Background: Increasing migration will increase the need for nurses to provide care across cultural groups. Methods: Twenty one students in the second year of a 4-year nursing programme participated in 3 focus groups. Data were analysed using directed content analysis. Research questions were based on Campinha-Bacote's model. Results: Three themes were identified: perceived cultural barriers, perceived cultural facilitators and identifying culturally sensitive actions. Generally, students were able to define culture but were unable to say how culture would affect nursing practice. Discussion: Students were unprepared to practice in a multicultural setting. Cultural awareness is insufficient for determining how to respond to cultural differences. Limitations: The study is limited by its restriction to a single school of nursing and a single curriculum. Conclusions: The multiple, ongoing political, religious and ethnic conflicts will require nurses to provide care to patients from other cultural groups, in some instances to people identified as adversaries to the group the nurse may represent. Understanding cultural differences is insufficient to do this effectively. Implications for nursing education: Learning culturally competent care requires opportunities to provide, be guided through and reflect on care to individuals from different cultural groups. Implications for organizational and public policies: Standards for culturally competent care should be adopted by all care delivery settings. Public and organizational policies openly declaring healthcare settings as cultural safe zones, and explicit organizational commitment to culturally safe care, would set clear expectations for providers and help ensure a positive patient experience.
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İncele - MakaleYalnız künye2012Scopus SJRQ3PERCEPTIONS OF FALLS AMONG TURKISH ELDERLY LIVING IN INSTITUTIONS: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Emiroglu, Oya Nuran; Karatay, Gulnaz
Introduction: Falls in the elderly are a significant problem with consequences that may lead to death. Although many studies have been conducted regarding falls in the elderly, little is known of their own perceptions and experiences of falling. The purpose of this study was to better understand how the elderly living in institutions understand and perceive their experiences of falling. Materials and Method: A qualitative design was used based upon van Manen's phenomenological approach. Interviews were conducted with 22 elderly using a purposive sampling method. Van Manen's data analysis approach was used to analyze the data derived from the interviews. Results: Outcomes of this study showed that there were three main perceptions about falls for the elderly: Participants acknowledged falling as a painful experience and that falls should be expected in old age. Still others understood that life goes on but with new areas of concern which will require their attention and care. Conclusion: The results of this study show that all health care personnel, particularly the nurses who care for the elderly in an institutional environment, need to adopt an individualized and empathetic approach to those in their care. Falls happen often and can be fatal to the elderly. Thus it is very important for all health care professionals working with the elderly to be fully informed and involved in ensuring that their patients practice safe behaviors to guard against falls. Care should also be taken to ensure that their living environment is safe and secure.
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