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Öğe Determination of risky health behaviors of immigrant and nonimmigrant adolescents [Göçmen ve göçmen olmayan ergenlerin riskli sagli{dotless}k davrani{dotless}şlari{dotless}ni{dotless}n belirlenmesi](Gulhane Military Medical Academy, 2014) Kalkim A.; Toraman A.U.AİM: This study was planned as a descriptive study in order to investigate risky health behaviors of immigrant and non immigrant adolescents. METHODS: The study was performed in a high school situated Izmir between the dates of October and November 2008. Sample group of this research was included 293 immigrant and 813 non immigrant adolescents. Data were collected by using Socio-demographic question form and and Health Risk Behaviors Scale. Data were collected from students with a technical pencil-paper by researcher in classroom. Frequencies, one way anova (post-hoc bonferroni) and independent t test were used with Stastical Package for Social Science 13.0 program for statistical analysis of data. Written consent was taken from Izmir Directorate of Education to carry out the study. Oral consent was taken from the school manager and the students. RESULTS: Mean age of adolescents was 15.42±0.03. It was determined that risky health behaviors mean score (t: 2.161, p: 0.031) and physical activity (t: 2.132, p: 0.033), nutrition (t:3.030, p: 0.003), hygiene (t: 3.850, p: 0.000) sub-scales mean scores of immigrant adolescent were statistically higher than non immigrant adolescents (p<0.05). CONCLUSİONS: Consequently, this study was important to health professionals worked primary health services and school health services The study have significant data about migration affects on health behaviors of adolescent to show health professionals worked primary care and school health services and to plan health services towards adolescents.Öğe Internet addiction and affected factors in primary school students: School-based study(W.B. Saunders, 2021) Kalkim A.; Emlek Sert Z.The aim of the study was to determine the prevelance of internet addiction and effected factors in primary school students. This school-based study was a cross-sectional descriptive research design. This study was conducted with 277 students. Prevelans of IA among students was found 10.5%. Variables such as age (?11 years), internet use in a day (?3 h), not use internet for education, homework, research, use internet for communication, social network, gaming and mid academic grade accounted for 23% of the internet addiction. It is recommended that children with risk factors for internet addiction should be determined in the early stages, and that school-based intervention programs should be performed for students and their parents to prevent internet addiction. © 2021 Elsevier Inc.Öğe An investigation of the perceptions and practices of nursing students regarding spirituality and spiritual care(MDPI AG, 2016) Kalkim A.; Midilli T.S.; Baysal E.The aim of this research was to determine Turkish nursing students’ knowledge, practices and perceptions of spirituality and spiritual care and to investigate the relationship between their perceptions and their demographics. This study was a descriptive survey conducted at a nursing school providing degree-level education in the city of Manisa, in the western part of Turkey. The sample of the study consisted of the 400 nursing students. A nursing student sociodemographic form, a form on nursing students’ knowledge and practices of spirituality and spiritual care, and the Spirituality and Spiritual Care Rating Scale were used to collect the data. Half of the students could meet patients’ or individuals’ spiritual needs, and the spiritual care that they gave was most frequently listening, empathy, and psychological support. The research findings were that nursing students’ perceptions of spirituality and spiritual care were “sufficiently” although not “very sufficiently” defined. Being female, being in the second year of education and seeing spiritual care education as necessary were determinants of their perceptions of spirituality and spiritual care. © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.Öğe A major chronic disease: Obesity in childhood and adolescence [Önemli bir kronik hastali{dotless}k: Çocukluk ve ergenlik döneminde obezite](2011) Ergü S.; Kalkim A.The aim of this paper is to draw attention to obesity in adolescence and its potential risks and put forward its consequences in terms of public health as well as offer solutions. Today, obesity has become one of the most frequent chronic diseases of childhood. The tendency to obesity is at an alarming level and the annual increase in this age group is gradually rising. In the 2003 report of the International Obesity Commission, it was stated that one out of ten children aged between 5-17 worldwide was overweight or obese. In addition to social and psychological problems resulting from obesity, it is known to be closely related with very serious diseases such as hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes mellitus and metabolic syndrome. It is also known that obesity shortens life expectancy and that the process starts in the childhood period of many obese adults. Struggling with obesity actually means struggling with many other diseases. It is also of major significance for the future of our country to struggle with especially childhood obesity. In terms of public health, it is of primary importance to detect, prevent and cure obesity in this period.
