JNCR

The mission of the journal is to contribute to the development of nursing science and care practices in Turkey and internationally. It is also to promote and disseminate new knowledge and research data for evidence-based care practices at all levels of nursing services. The Journal of Nursing Care Research deals with Fundamentals of Nursing, Internal Medicine Nursing, Surgical Nursing, Obstetrics and Gynecology Nursing, Child Health and Diseases Nursing, Mental Health and Diseases Nursing, Public Health Nursing and Management in Nursing and accepts articles on these topics.

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Original Article
Healthcare people's coating with uncertainty and humor during pandemic
Aims: The aim of the current research is to determine the situations of health workers and to reveal that humor can be used as an effective coping method.
Methods: The study is in the descriptive-correlational design type and includes 415 individuals who filled out the online questionnaires between March and April 2021. Data were collected from the participants, through the Personal Data Form, the Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale and the Scale of Coping with Humor in the Workplace.
Results: The mean age of the participants was 31.84±7.82 years, 76.6% were women, and 64.1% were working in units with patients diagnosed with pandemic. Healthcare professionals’ total scores of intolerance to ambiguity and coping with humor in the workplace were 36.73±10.11 (moderate) and 57.85±18.62 (low to moderate), respectively.
Conclusion: Many factors were analyzed with intolerance to uncertainty, but no significant relationship was found. However, when uncertainty prevails, it is seen that healthcare professionals use more humor to cope with; situations that may be more traumatic for them (when they are diagnosed with pandemic and have a relative who died due to the pandemic); It was determined that they could not use humor as a coping method. A low level of statistically significant correlation was found between the total score of the participants’ intolerance to uncertainty scale and their scores for coping with humor at work.


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Volume 3, Issue 2, 2026
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