Health behavior and effecting factors at students continuing their education in health sciences

Objective: It was conducted as a descriptive study in order to determine the health behaviors and affecting factors of students at Demiroğlu Bilim University Health Sciences. Material and Methods: The sample of the study consists of a total of 356 students studying at Demiroğlu Bilim University in the 2019-2020 academic year. Research; It was provided with the voluntary participation of first and fourth year students studying in the departments of Midwifery, Nursing, Nutrition and Dietetics, Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation. The data in the study were collected using the "Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors II Scale" and the "Socio-Demographic Form". Results: The mean age of the students participating in the study was 21.60±2.97, 46.1% of them were studying in nursing, 11.2% in midwifery, 22.2% in nutrition and dietetics 20.5% in physiotherapy and rehabilitation program. 60.7% of the students pantsare first-year student sand 39.3% are fourth-year students. Healt hassess ments coresfor the last 6 month sranged from 1 to 10, with an average of 6.40±2.06. While 34.6% of the students are smokers, 72.8% of them have a cigarettes moker in the irimmediate environment. In the evaluation of the subgroups of the SYBD II Scale, it can be seen that the highest averages core is spiritual development (26.41±4.37), and the lowest average score is physicalactivity (19.06±5.14) among the behaviors that contribute to health promotion. Inter personalrelations (26.17±4.52), health responsibility (22.67±4.88), nutrition (21.40±4.63), stress management (19.93±4.04) comenext, respectively. 4 Conclusion: The students' healthy life style behaviors were foundto be moderate. Itmay be recommended to organize training and counseling programs in order to bring healthy life style behaviors to a better level. Keywords: student, education, university student, health promotion, healthy lifestyle behaviors