Abstract
Healthy lifestyle behaviors can be defined as all the behaviors believed and applied by individuals to be healthy, maintain health and be protected from diseases. This study aims to determine the healthy lifestyle behaviors of high school students studying at the high schools in the Province of Elazig, Turkey. The study population of this descriptive study consists of students studying at the high schools located in the Cumhuriyet neighborhood located in the city center of the Province of Elazig. Simple random sampling method was used to select 459 students among the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th graders studying at that high school the study sample consists of these 459 students. As a data collection tool, a Personal Information Form, which includes items for students' socio-demographic information, and the Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors Scale-II were used. The study findings indicated that students adopted the healthy lifestyle behaviors moderately. Variables such as gender, type of school, grade, family income, paternal education status were found to be effective on the healthy lifestyle behaviors.
Highlights
Health behavior is expressed as any activity or behavior believed, and performed to be healthy as well as the behaviors performed by healthy individuals to prevent diseases [1]
Considering the demographic characteristics of the students included in the research, it was found that the majority (79.7%) was Anatolian High School students, the number of male students was greater than the number of female students, 38.3% of the students' family income was 2000TL and above, and fathers of 28.5% of the high school students were high school graduates
It was determined that fathers of 28.3% of the students were civil servant, and economic status of the 85.4% was at moderate level (Table 1)
Summary
Health behavior is expressed as any activity or behavior believed, and performed to be healthy as well as the behaviors performed by healthy individuals to prevent diseases [1]. Healthy lifestyle behaviors (HLSB) can be defined as all the behaviors believed and adopted by individuals to be healthy, maintain health, and be protected from diseases [2]. Individuals who adopt healthy lifestyle behaviors are able to improve and sustain their well-being. In order to acquire health promoting behaviors, individuals need to have self-control, and should be disposed to do perform these behaviors. This is because, positive health behaviors should be acquired and maintained in order to improve health [4]
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