Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
International Journal of Caring Sciences, cilt.18, sa.2, ss.1154-1163, 2025 (Hakemli Dergi)
Background: In the process of protecting and improving health, it is important to develop one's healthy lifestyle beliefs. It is stated that providing adolescents with healthy lifestyle behaviors will effectively develop healthy lifestyle beliefs.
Objective: The study aimed to determine the beliefs of adolescents regarding healthy lifestyles and to examine the relationship between their beliefs and some socio-demographic variables.
Methodology: For the descriptive-correlational study, 740 students in a public high school in Ankara were included. Data were collected in the classroom using a questionnaire form created by the researchers and the Healthy Lifestyle Belief Scale for Adolescents. The data were evaluated using an Independent sample t-test, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), and Welch statistics. Tamhane and Bonferroni tests were used as multiple comparison tests.
Results: The mean age of the students was 15.76±1.17 years; 53.5% were girls, and 60.5% had a medium economic status. The mean score of the Healthy Lifestyle Believer Scale for adolescents was 56.47±11.93.
Conclusions: This study found that adolescents' beliefs about healthy lifestyles were slightly above the middle level. While gender and physical activity status variables positively affect the scale score, economic status, frequency of physical activity, duration of physical activity per week, number of meals consumed per day, skipping meals, daily diet, frequency of fast food consumed per week, daily sleep duration and sleep problems variables negatively affect the scale score.
Keywords: healthy lifestyle, belief, adolescents, school nursing