Özet:

The SARS-CoV-2 virus in the Chinese state of Hubei, Wuhan, occurred on December 31, 2019 and the Covid-19 epidemic soon became a pandemic that affected the whole world, including our country.The World Health Organization's data on April 17, 2021, the number of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 has exceeded 130 million and so far 3 million people have lost their lives.Even though many studies have been carried out around the world on the Covid-19 that affects the whole world, the pandemic has not yet been stopped. Since the beginning of the global epidemic, the pandemic has continued and continued rapidly, although the virological studies and vaccination studies on the creation of protective vaccines have been carried out with great effort to rapidly continue the drug studies for the effective treatment of Covid-19 patients, preventing the spread of pandemic.In this context, the only way to protect from Covid-19 is the individual control and management of the pandemic, even if vaccination is made, without getting comfort and rehab.Personal protective measures such as the use of masks, social distance, hand cleaning, hygiene, individual isolation are the foundations of the individual pandemic management in this process. Since the beginning of the pandemic process, virologists, microbiologists and infection experts have been aiming and striving to inform the public with the means of mass communication about the necessary individual and social protection methods for the effective management of Covid-19 in almost all the media.But despite all these warnings and information, the increase in the number of cases and death rates in the world and in our country shows that the individual management of Covid-19 is not yet effectively provided.Information is necessary but not sufficient for the desired behavior change. To convert the accurate information acquired into behavior, individuals need to carry a series of sociological and psychological factors.These factors include self-control, responsibility, and empathy.

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