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.