The Effects of Self-care Education of Adolescents on the Power of Self-care

Adolescents experience some physical and mental changes at adolescence so that they may meet situations that threaten the health. Therefore it is important to support adolescents in terms of self-care. This study was conducted as a quasi-experimental experimental study in order to increase self-care power of the adolescents. The study was conducted at a primary school in the central province of Yozgat. Adolescents who had the ability to understand and to answer the questionnaire, who were considered as able to attend the 6 trainings and who accepted to participate in the research and whose parents accepted to participate, 30 adolescents were included in the study. As the data collection tools, Questionnaire Form for the Adolescents and Self-care Power Scale were used. For the data analyses; numbers, percentage distributions, Simple Paired t test, Mann Whitney U test, Wilcoxon t test were used. As a result of statistical analyses; self-care power scale score averages of all of the adolescents increased statistically after the trainings (p