Determination of healthy lifestyle behaviors of academic staff working at Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University

The aim of the research was to reveal the healthy lifestyle behaviors of academic staff working at Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University and the factors affecting these behaviors. The population of the research consists of a total of 1078 people, 626 of whom are men and 452 of whom are women, working as academic staff at Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University. The population was accepted as the sample without selecting the sample, and 162 of them were women and 230 of them were men, who participated in the research voluntarily. A total of 392 academic staff were reached. The data was collected between July and December 2023, using a survey form containing individual characteristics consisting of 8 questions and 52 statements, to determine the characteristics of the participants such as gender, age, marital status, academic title, weekly course load, and the number of academic activities performed, by Walker et al. Developed by Bahar et al. It was collected with the healthy lifestyle behaviors scale-II, which was adapted into Turkish by . SPSS 25.0 program was used to evaluate the data. Shapiro and Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests were applied to determine whether the scores received by the academic staff from the Healthy Lifestyle Behavior Scale II showed a normal distribution. As a result of the tests, it was found that the data showed a normal distribution. Normally distributed scores; It was evaluated by independent sample t test and ANOVA test. The significance level was accepted as p<0.05. SYBD scale total score is 132.08±20.24, sub-dimension scale scores are; health responsibility 21.42±4.80, physical activity 16.16±4.65, nutrition 21.15±4.32, spiritual development 27.99±4.09, interpersonal relations 25.47±4.47 stress management was found to be 20.08±4.60. As a result, it was seen that the healthy lifestyle behaviors of the academic staff were at a medium level, the highest score was obtained from the spiritual development sub-dimension, the lowest score was from the physical activity sub-dimension, and the average score of health responsibility and nutrition was 41-50 in female participants, while the average score was 41-50 in the physical activity, nutrition and stress management sub-dimensions. It was concluded that the spiritual development sub-dimension was high in participants aged 51 and over.