EVALUATION OF HEALTHY LIFESTYLE BEHAVIORS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Year 2019, Volume: 5 Issue: 9, 85 - 94, 27.10.2019

Yunus Emre Öztürk , Ramazan Kıraç

Abstract

The
aim of this study was to evaluate the healthy lifestyle behaviors of university
students. 

Research has been applied to Selcuk University Alaeddin Keykubat campus
students located in the center of Konya. The research was carried out at the
Faculty of Dentistry, Faculty of Literature, Faculty of Science, Faculty of
Fine Arts, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences,
Faculty of Communication, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Architecture,
Faculty of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty
of Veterinary Medicine Faculty, Faculty of Arts and Design, Faculty of
Technology, Faculty of Tourism, Faculty of Sports Sciences. The study was
developed by Walker et al. (1996) and the Turkish version was adapted by Bahar
et al. (2008). Research is descriptive and ıt used that quantitative research
method. İn this survey, Data which were collected using the face-to-face survey
method, was analyzed and interpreted by SPSS program.

36,5% of the students
who participated in the survey were male and 63,5% were females. Educational
status of the mothers of the students participating in the survey: 72,5% are
primary school graduates, 15,3% are high school graduates, 2,2% are associate
degree graduates and 9,6% are undergraduate graduates. Educational status of
fathers of students participating in the survey:  49,3% are primary school graduates, 31,3% are
high school graduates, 5,2% are associate graduates and 14,3% are undergraduate
graduates. students who participated in the survey, 81% of them were in the
nuclear family, and 19% of them were in the large family. About 10,3% of the
surveyed students, have between 0 and 1000₺ , 37,7% between 1001 and 2000₺, 31%
between 2001 and 3000₺ and finally 20,9% with 3001 ₺ and over monthly family
income. 14.8% of the students who participated in the survey live in villages
or towns before coming to university, 25,4% of them live in counties, 32,3% of
them live in cities and 27,6% of them live in big cities.

The dimension,
which is most related to the scale, "Health responsibility"
dimension. "Stress management", "physical activity",
"nutrition", "interpersonal relations",
"self-realization" dimensions follows this dimension in turn. A
significant difference was observed in the physical activity dimension
(p<0,05). Male physical activity averages are higher than ladies. It has
been found that students who are involved in the research have no chronic
illnesses, have a higher self-realization rate than students with any chronic
illness. . It has been determined that the average of nutritional behaviors of
the students' who was living in the village before the university was lower
than the average of the nutritional behaviors of the students living in the big
cities before the university.

Keywords

Health, Behavior, Healthy Lifestyle Behaviours

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