Aim: The aim of the study was to evaluate impact of pandemic on COVD-19 quality of life and effecting factors among adults wıth long COVID. Methods: The study included 440 individuals applying at family health centers for any reason. Participants were asked to complete a survey after their written consent was received. The survey consisted of two parts: the first related to socio-demographic information; the second including “COVID-19 Quality of Life Scale” and the “Perception Health Scale” . Mean, median, Kruskal Wallis and Mann-Whitney U tests and Sperman Correlation analysis were used in analysis. Results: Of the participants, 40.9% were male, 59.1% were female as well as 33.2% had at least one long COVID symptoms, 44.5% were reported that symptoms continued for 1-3 months. In addition, the median age was 41 years, the body mass index was 24.6 kg/m2. The median time since first infected was 7 month. The median COV19-QoL and Perception of Health Scale scores were 3.0 and 40.0 respectively. Among the prolonged COVID symptoms, fatigue/tiredness was shown with 53.2%. Other common symptoms were muscle pain (27.1%), headache/dizziness (24.1%), difficulty thinking or concentrating (20.9%), difficulty in breathing and heart palpitation (20.0%). The COV19-QoL median score significantly differed by education level, existing chronic conditions, COVID-19 treatment type, number of experienced long COVID symptoms and continuation of the symptoms p<0.05. There was significant correlation between COV19-QoL and age, time since first infected and perceived health score (p<0.05) . Conclusion: Aging, low education, existing chronic conditions, hospitalization, number of long symptoms, continuation of symptoms, and perception of health were risky factors for impact of the pandemic on COVID-19 quality of life. Specific rehabilitation services and programmes seems to be urgent need in overcoming this issue and to improve health. Key words: Long COVID, COVID-19, quality of life, adults, family health

Background: This study was aimed to investigate evaluation of health literacy, behavioural and psychosocial characteristics in coronary artery patients. Methods: This study was carried out between March 2019 and March 2020 with 275 coronary artery patients aged ≥50 years in Kastamonu State Hospital. Clinical, behavioural characteristics, Turkish Health Literacy Scale-32 and Beck Depression Inventory were used to collect the data. Results: General health literacy index score was 31.7 and the prevalence of limited health literacy was 59.3%. Depressive symptom was found to be 33.4% in moderate/severe level. Limited health literacy was 58.3% among ≥65 years old, while it was 41.7% in the 50-64 age group (p<0.05). Adequate health literacy was 62.5% in males and 37.5% in females (p<0.05). Adequate health literacy was 2.8 fold higher among 50-64 age group, 3.1 fold higher among men, 3.4 fold higher among married and 5.3 fold higher among those who believe in the necessity of individual protective practices have more adequate health literacy levels (p<0.05). Health check-up, utilizing health service, cigarette and alcohol use, exercise and nutrition were the significant behavioural factors for health literacy levels (p<0.05). Mild level of depressive symptoms was more common among limited health literate patients. Conclusion: Health literacy was poor among coronary artery patients and behavioural and psychosocial variables were differed with health literacy levels. In order to develop cardiovascular health among these patients, health literacy-based interventions should be adopted to in coronary artery clinics especially for risky groups. Keywords: Coronary disease, coronary artery disease, health literacy, risk factors, life style, depression, patients

BACKGROUND: This study aims to determine nicotine dependence levels in pre and during pandemic and its correlations with COVID-19 phobia among healthy men during controlled social life: a sample of primary care population. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was conducted with 472 healthy men in Çorum, Black Sea Region, Turkey between February 2019 and October 2020. An online questionnaire was used to collect data including demographic profile, smoking behavior, intention to quit, Fagerström Nicotine Dependence test (FTND) pre and during COVID-19 pandemic and COVID-19 phobia scale. RESULTS: In this study, a percentage change of +6.2, +0.8, +1.9, -2.7, -5.1 was found in very low, low, medium, high and very high dependence categories respectively between pre-pandemic and during controlled social life in pandemic. A percentage change of +2.8 was seen in terms of intention to quit smoking. The mean score for COVID-19 phobia was 65.9 ± 15.8 and almost two-thirds of the participants (62%) had medium and high COVID-19 phobia. Men with high/very high dependence had significantly more COVID-19 phobia than the other two groups. There was a significant correlation between FTND scores and COVID-19 phobia. CONCLUSIONS: There were considerable changes in dependence levels and COVID-19 phobia was more common in high/very high dependence group. Controlled social life should be considered a golden opportunity for predicting levels of nicotine dependence and will bring benefit for lower smoking prevalence. COVID-19, Nicotine dependence, Phobia, men, Primary health care.