Healthy Life Style Behaviors Changes of the Nursing Students: 2004 - 2014

Aim: This study is planned with the purpose of studying changes in healthy life style behaviors (HLSB) of the nursing students. Materials and Method: The study which was planned in a descriptive style was conducted in a School of Nursing / Nursing Faculty. The data was collected with a questionnaire that was prepared by the researchers and a healthy life style behaviors scale by making face to face interviews with the students in years of 2004 and 2014. The study was applied to the all students of School of Nursing / Nursing Faculty who accepted to participate in the study (n=1211) (2004 n=313; 2014 n: 898). After obtaining an approval from Faculty of Nursing Scientific Ethics Committee for the study, a written permission was obtained from the institution where the study was going to be conducted. The analysis of the data was done in the computer environment with SPSS for Windows 15.00. Number and percentage distributions and significance test on the difference between two means were used in analyzing the data. Results: It was seen that the HLSB point average of year 2004 was 130.05±18.19 point, the HLSB point average of year 2014 was 127.30±19.37 point. When the point averages of years 2004 and 2014 were compared, the statistical significant difference between the HLSB total points (t=2.198, p