The examination of productivity of healthcare lesson at 9th grade of high school by using multiple correspondence analysis

Apaydın H., The Examination of Productivity of Healthcare Lesson at 9th Grade of High School by Using Multiple Correspondence Analysis. Van Yuzuncu Yil University, Institute of Health Sciences, Master Thesis in the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Van, 2017. Healthcare is one of the lesson that has been conducted in the 9th grade to increase the level of awareness of society about health in the context of protective healthcare services. In this thesis, it has been aimed to evaluate the detection of current situation of healthcare lesson's productivity and the data that has been arrived from survey to improve productivity with Multiple Correspondence Analysis. The variables are taken into account in the study and the relationship between categories of variables has been determined with Multiple Correspondence Analysis. Multiple Correspondence Analysis has provided to examinate and interprete the relationship between variables in a two-dimensional space as graphical representation in a various ways. The survey conducted in the study has been applied to randomly chosen about 530 students who have been educated at 32 high schools and about 75 teachers who teach this lesson at the centre of Van. At the end of research, these conclusions have indicated that the teachers consider students have to take the healthcare lesson as a compulsory, training course as the teacher who teach that lesson is insufficient, the studies about heatlhcare training conducted in Turkey is not enough, from the viewpoint of teachers, one hour of healthcare lesson duration is insufficient, the cleaning services conducted at schools should have been done in amore qualified way .Female students have given more important to healthcare lesson than male students and the students consider the cleaning services conducted at schools are insufficient. As a consequence, Multiple Correspondence Analysis provide to examine visually results obtained analytically. Thus, it provides to inteprete the results easier and to understand the relationship between those variables in a more detailed information. Therefore, using Multiple Correspondence Analysis in the evaluating data enables more preferable to other altevatives technique. Key words: Health Education, Healthcare Lesson, Multiple Correspondence Analysis, School's Health.