An Assessment of Eighth Grade Students’ Health Promotion Behaviours

Abstract

This study aims to assess the health promotion behavior of eighth grade students. The population of this research includes 2791 students who were eighth grade in Primary School, Gaziantep. The research aimed to reach the entire population, yet ended with 2476 students. Mean age average of the adolescents involved in the study was 14.00±0.57, and their overall AHPS score was 139.21±25.12. Assessed by sex, female students scored meaningfully higher than the male students (p<.05). The children, whose parents are high school graduates or higher, performed better than the other parents’ children. Moreover, monthly income also predicted the students’ scores. Adolescents’ AHPS scores are not at the desired level. Findings show that school health nurses should organize training programs that also include the families and school staff. This program should be based on sociodemographic data and cover nutrition, exercise, stress management, and health responsibility

Health-promoting domains and lifestyle of a sample of Brazilian adolescents

“…Adolescents from families with higher purchasing power presented higher scores in the overall index and the domains of nutrition behavior and life appreciation , and adolescents with lower economic class scored higher in the exercise behavior domain. These findings are consistent with the results of some studies[ 21 ]; however, it confronts with results of others,[ 6 17 ] demonstrating that the influence of the family economic class on the perception of adolescents’ health promotion is not consensual. The main reason for this divergence may be linked to the method used to identify the strata of family economic class.…”