The Effect of Nursing Students’ Fertility Health Knowledge Levels on Their Awareness of Healthy Living
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https://doi.org/10.58600/eurjther2813Keywords:
fertility health, healthy living awareness, nursingAbstract
Objective: This study aimed to determine the effect of nursing students’ fertility health knowledge levels on their awareness of healthy living.
Methods: A descriptive study design was employed. The research was conducted with 453 students enrolled in the Nursing Department of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Gaziantep University during the 2023–2024 academic year. Data were collected using a Personal Information Form, the Fertility Health Knowledge Scale (FHKS), and the Healthy Life Awareness Scale (HLAS). Data analysis included Student’s t-test, one-way ANOVA, correlation, and regression analyses.
Results: The students’ mean total score on the FHKS was 109.29 ± 13.30. Their mean total HLAS score was 55.17 ± 10.05, with sub-dimension scores of 19.26 ± 3.70 for change, 14.43 ± 3.43 for socialization, 11.28 ± 2.44 for responsibility, and 10.19 ± 2.73 for nutrition. A weak but statistically significant positive correlation was found between total FHKS and HLAS scores (r = 0.389, p = 0.001). Fertility health knowledge levels explained 15% of the variance in healthy living awareness scores (F = 80.436; p = 0.001).
Conclusion: Nursing students demonstrated high levels of fertility health knowledge and healthy living awareness. Furthermore, an increase in fertility health knowledge was associated with a corresponding increase in awareness of healthy living.
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