THE PERCEPTIONS OF RESPONSIBLE TURKISH OFFICERS FOR INFIRMARY OF THEIR PROBLEM SOLVING ABILITIES

Comparing to all assigned jobs or work to earn a descent income, money, then no other professions that are more risky compare to seafarers. For we know that all of the jobs or works are all risky too but a seafarer is the most risky profession of all. After graduation from own school, many officers assigned for health officers on board although lack of experience. The aim of the study is to determine the perceptions of responsible Turkish officers for infirmary of their problem solving abilities’ level and to find out whether their perceptions differ according to age, gender, marital status, school graduated, competency level, experience and additional health training. In this study survey (questionnaire) method was used. Problem solving inventory (PSI) which was developed by Heppner and Petersen in 1982 and in 1993 PSI was realigned in Turkish Version by Sahin and Sahin was filled to the officers by their companies which they work as an officer. Frequency tables, descriptive statistics, reliability analysis, Kolmogorov - Smirnov Z test, single direction variance analysis (ANOVA), LSD test and independent sample t test are used in the analyses of data.