Materials and Methods
Ethics committee approval was obtained from the local ethics committee
for the survey study (Approval number: E2-21-502). Participants were
informed that the data will be used for scientific purposes only.
Physicians working as urology resident in university hospitals and
training and research hospitals in Turkey were included in the study.
The 13-questioned survey was prepared via “Google Forms©”. The
questionnaire form was shared once every two days for 4 weeks as of
01.03.2021 via “WhatsApp®” application, which includes 279 urology
residents. During this period, 113 urology residents who participated in
the questionnaire were included in the study. The answers given by the
participants were kept confidential.
The survey included the questions that; the range of participants ages,
the year of urology residency, the institution (university hospital or
training and research hospital) and the surgical techniques using
fluoroscopy during their training. In addition, the participants were
also questioned about their own and auxiliary healthcare staff tendency
to refrain from surgeries using fluoroscopy and to replace a surgery
requiring fluoroscopy with a non-fluoroscopy method. It was evaluated
whether they and their auxiliary healthcare staff received training on
dosimeter usage, radiation dose of fluoroscopy and protection methods.
Their opinions on the protective equipments and adequacies and regular
controls of them and their knowledge of ionizing radiation protection
methods were questioned also.