Study on some variables of relationship between healthy lifestyle behaviors and health responsibilities of university students (batman example)

This study have been conducted for the purpose of determining the healthy lifestyle behaviors of Batman university students by means of a few demographic variables. Subject group consists of 512 students (male 290 / female 222) who attend to the 2nd term of 2014-2015 school year. "Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors Scale" which has been developed by Walker et al. and adapted to Turkishby Ebem, has been used as the study scale. The scale is the liker type and consists of total 43 questions, 9 of which are about demographic info and 34 of which are about healthy lifestyle behaviors. The variables of gender, age, weight, height, family income level, the place of stay and the smoking status and healthy lifestyle behaviors have been surveyed. Primarily, the test of normality has been applied in the analysis of the collected data and since a normal distribution of data has not been found, Mann Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis H non-parametric tests have been used in the analysis of the data. In the survey, the views of the university students on the healthy lifestyle behaviors have been focused on the option "occasionally" on the average. A statistically significant difference has been found on the variables of age, the place of stay and smoking status. However, a significant difference has been observed for the other variables. The finding that the healthy lifestyle awareness increases as the age group increases, has been found. Moreover, the healthy lifestyle awareness of the students who stay with a family has been found higher, compared to the students who stay in the dormitories. In addition, the fact that the healthy lifestyle behavior is higher-up among those who quited smoking ornon-smokers, is an expected result due to the fact that smoking is hazardous.