Health behaviors of the high school students and factors determining these behaviors

This is a descriptive study and aimed to investigate health risk behaviors of the highschool students between 15 and 18 years old and factors determining these behaviors.Sampling group of the study included 1234 students of high schools. This study datawere collected by using a survey form sociodemographic characteristics and health riskbehaviors scale. For the evaluation of the study results; independent samples t test andone-way ANOVA were applied. This study 51.3% students girls and 58.1% studentsbetween 15-16 years old. As a result, the adolescent received moderate scores fromhealth risk behaviors scale (43.0±7.0). The adolescent got the highest scores on thesubscale of physical activity (52.1±14.1), the falloved scores on the scale of eating habits(50.77±9.16), psychosocial behaviors (43.30±10.68) and the lowest score on the subscaleof using substance (29.85 ±11.17) and hygiene (30.83±1.12). There was significantrelation between age, gender, family structure, socioeconomic level and believe healthand the scores of health risk behaviors scale and its subscales. The school nurse has toimportant roles for diognosis health problems and protect healthy.Key Words: Adolescent, health risk behaviors, high school students, school nurse