A study on the healthy living behavior of university students and the factors affecting this behaviors

It was investigated healty life style behaviors and related factors in this study among students of Hasan Kalyoncu University, in the 2013-2014 academic year. 640 students participated in this study. Percentage, frequency and chi-square tests were used in the data analysis. Female and male participants were 52,8% and 47,2%, respectively. According to the study, 41.2% of the students were living with their family and, 10.4% were living alone during their university education.Of the mothers of the students,43.7% had education level high school and higher. This percentage was 66.1% among fathers.59.4 % of the students who were riding a bike or motorcycle in the last 12 monts were not using a helmet and, 7.2% of students who were travelling by their friends car, were not using a seatbelt. In the last 12 month, 64.5% of the students felt themselves bad, desperate and not enough power to do their daily life works and, 11.1% of the students were considered to make a suicide. A significant no notation was found between residence and suicide thinking (p> 0.05). İt was found that ; %24,5 of students were smoking , 47,8% the first using of alcohol was between 8–16 years of age.Of the student 7.0% used 1-2 times marijuanas, heroin during their life. 39.1% of the students were doing exercises and, 49.7% were controlling their eating habit. 31.5% of the students were not watching TV and 18.8% were not playing any computer or video games. Overall the results, it was found that 44.3% of students have a good health. According to this study results it is suggested to organize training programs on healthy living behaviors for university students. Keywords: Risky health behaviors, healthy life, university students.