Abstract

Objective: The aim of this study is to research the relationship between the healthy lifestyle behaviors and eating attitudes of a group of health high school students.

Method and Material: This cross-sectional study has been carried out on 272 students who are studying at Erciyes University Health High school, nutrition and dietetics (130), nursing (103) and midwifery (39) departments between February-March 2008. A survey sheet rating students’ demographic socio-cultural characteristics, their behaviors related to nutrition, Eating Attitudes Test (EAT) and The Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors Scale have been used and research data have been collected by face-to-face application of survey by a researcher. During the analysis of data, chi-square test, Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal Wallis test, Pearson Correlation analysis and Logistic Regression analysis have been applied.

Resulth: The meanpoint of the eating attitudes test and the behaviors of healthy-life-style of the students was 20.9±9.3, 127.8±17.5 respectively. 14 % of students have scored ≥30 point from EAT. Possible eating disorder rates of schoolgirls have been found significantly higher than schoolboys. A significant difference has been found between EAT mean scores according to students accommodations and settlements (p