Investigation of the level of healthy nutrition the motivation ofparticipation in physical activity of youth in Elazığ earthquake

Earthquake phenomenon is a situation that creates critical stress in humans. In addition to the severity of the earthquake, factors such as the age of the person, the state of being prepared for the earthquake, the loss of a relative for a similar reason before are important factors that determine the stress level of the person. Although earthquakes are generally thought of as events with human consequences, they also cause many sociological and psychological problems. Because it is observed that there are differences in both socio-cultural and religious values, nature and life in societies experiencing earthquakes. At 20:55 local time on 24.01.2020, a very severe shallow earthquake with the epicenter of Elazig-Sivrice and a magnitude of Mw 6.8 occurred. After this earthquake, many people had to take shelter in tents and containers. In this period, especially young earthquake survivors are deprived of physical activities, in order to determine the effect of physical activities on the adaptation of young individuals living in the center of Elazig who participate in physical activities to social life after the earthquake and to determine the effect of physical activity on healthy nutrition, motivation to participate in physical activity and attitude towards healthy eating was conducted on June 05, 2021 Scale google/ The form was sent to the participants. Participants were promoted in social media and sports centers to participate in the scale. 546 scales were evaluated from the participants. The data obtained by coding the Google/forman data were analyzed with the SPSS 25.0 program. As a result; It was found that the participants' motivation to participate in physical activity for environmental reasons was at the average level, the highest motivation for participation in physical activity was due to individual reasons, and the lowest was due to environmental reasons. While gender does not affect their motivation to participate in physical activities, education level. The duration of doing sports and doing sports was found to be effective. It has been observed that the level of attitude, knowledge and attitude towards health and nutrition is high, but the level of emotion towards nutrition is low. Health nutrition has been found to be a factor that positively affects and increases the level of physical activity. There is a positive effect of approximately 16% between the motivations for participation in physical activity and the attitude towards healthy eating. In addition, it is seen that Motivations to Participate in Physical Activity increase the attitude towards Healthy Eating by 2.6%.