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e-Health literacy has become more important in promoting healthy lifestyles in recent years. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of undergraduate nursing students’ e-Health literacy on healthy lifestyle behaviours. This cross-sectional study was conducted during the 2016–2017 academic year at a Nursing Department in the Faculty of Health Sciences in Istanbul. The study population consisted of 232 undergraduate nursing students. The study sample was 205 students who volunteered to participate in the research. The data were collected using the Structured Questionnaire Form, the e-Health Literacy Scale in Adolescent and the Adolescent Lifestyle Profile Scale. The mean score of the e-Health Literacy Scale in Adolescent was 29.50 ± 5.02. The mean total score of the Adolescent Lifestyle Profile was 112.11 ± 14.66. There was a positive correlation between students’ Internet attitudes and general health-promoting lifestyle ( r = 0.273; p < 0.01), indicating the higher the students’ e-Health literacy, the higher their levels of healthy lifestyle behaviours. The result showed that e-Health literacy is an important parameter in promoting healthy lifestyle behaviours of nursing students.

This study aimed to determine the relationship between nursing students' levels of technology addiction and their attitudes toward e-learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design and Methods: The study had a cross-sectional design and was conducted at a Department of Nursing in a Faculty of Health Sciences in Turkey. The study sample consisted of 434 nurses chosen by stratified sampling method. Findings: The nursing students had a low level of technology addiction and mildly positive attitudes toward e-learning. A statistically positive correlation was found between students' technology addiction and their attitudes toward e-learning (p < 0.01).

In parallel with the increase of the students, there is a rapid increase use of technology. Wider accessibility to internet, use of e-mails, web sources, use of advanced mobile gadgets and simulators further fuels the use of technology. However, it is of crucial importance that technology-based learning environment has high-security hardware, that it embodies features that will properly suit their level of and help their development of cognitive, psychomotor and social development process of the students. Therefore, online class/labs and online applied conference/courses-when used effectively-will positively contribute to development of critical thinking skills, an indispensible part and major aim of contemporary education.Therefore, it is vital that technology-based learning environment is utilized and its significant is appreciated in order to enable development and actual practice of critical thinking skills by the nursing faculty members and the students.

This research was conducted to determine examining the relationship between social skills and social competence levels of Y generation students in health sciences. Material and Methods: The sampling of the research consisted of 453 students in the departments of nursing, audiology, health management, nutrition and dietetics and ergotherapy in the 2016-2017 academic year in a faculty of health sciences in İstanbul. The data were collected via the "Student Information Form", "Social Skill Inventory", "Social Self Efficacy", and "Social Outcome Expectations Scale." Results: It was found out that the mean age of the students was 20.49±1.69, 88.7% of them were female, 27.8% were first year students, and 40.2% were studying in the department of nursing. The mean total scores of the Social Skill Inventory and Social Self Efficacy and Social Outcome Expectations Scale were 270.15±35.56 and 70.87±12.24, respectively. It has been revealed that the social skills of generation Y students studying in the field of healthcare are at a moderate level, and their social competence and social outcome expectations are at a high level. A positive weak correlation was observed between generation Y students' social skill inventory affective expressivity subdimension scores and the scale scores of social self-efficacy and social outcome expectations (p<0.05) (r=0.133 and r=0.094). Conclusion: It was determined that the social skills of the Y generation students studying in the field of health were at a moderate level, and their social competence and social outcome expectations were at a high level.