Aim: The aim of this work is to determine the behaviours of adolescents towards safety measures at school and in traffic and their health beliefs for injuries. Background: Adolescents are more prone to injuries, as they are more willing to try risky health behaviours. Methods: This descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted at high schools in Turkey. The data were collected from high school students based on the self-report method between October 2017 and January 2018. Frequency, percentage, chisquare, t test, and logistic regression were used to analyse the data. Results: A total of 481 adolescents participated in the study. The response rate is 96.05%. As a result of the research, 12.5% of the adolescents reported that they were injured in traffic and 18.9% of them were injured at school. Adolescents who did not have an accident had higher scores of health beliefs than those who had an accident (p < 0.05). The most important predictors of injury are being male (OR: 2.52, 95% CI [1.19, 53.00]), parents' separation (OR: 2.82, 95% CI [0.98, 8.09]), and not believing that traffic rules were safe (OR: 3.15, 95% CI [1.42, 6.97]). Conclusion: Adolescents have risky behaviours at school and in traffic, and these risk behaviours are related to demographic characteristics and health beliefs. School nurses should plan health belief model-based injury prevention programs.

Objective: The aim of this study is to identify the occurrence frequency of school injuries, and to report where, when, and why they occur most. Methods: This retrospective descriptive study includes students aged between 6 and 11 years and is composed of 7042 school injury records. The school was chosen by the purposive sampling method since there was a school nurse working at school. The school injury records were formed by all injury records kept by the school nurse. The data were evaluated using descriptive statistics. Results: The study results showed that most of the school injuries occurred during the fall period (60.1%) and at break times (38.6%). As for the causes of the injuries, 13.3% of them were environmental, while 86.7% were behavioral. The floor on where most of the injuries occurred was rubber floor (53.6%) and the area where most of the injuries occurred was playground-garden (64%). The factor most frequently causing the injuries was hit collision, and the activity causing most of the injuries was running. The most frequently affected part of the body was headneck-forehead-chin. The most common type of injury was tenderness and redness. Conclusion: With this study, it is seen that the rate of injury among students is high. Most of the school injuries occurred during the break times and mealtimes. Most of the causes of injuries were behavioral. These epidemiological data would be a guide for studies on prevention of injuries.

Giriş: Çocukluk çağı obezitesi, 21. yüzyılın en ciddi halk sağlığı sorunlarından biridir. Obezitenin en yaygın sebepleri arasında sedanter yaşam tarzı ve sağlıksız beslenme alışkanlıkları yer almaktadır. Amaç: Bu çalışmanın amacı bir grup adölesanda fazla kilolu ve obezite sıklığını belirlemek ve obezite oluşumunda sedanter yaşam tarzı ve beslenme davranışları ilişkisini incelemektir. Yöntem: Bu çalışma, kesitsel-vaka kontrol araştırmasıdır. Çalışmada, fazla kilolu ve obez olduğu tespit edilen 44 öğrenci ile kontrol grubu olarak alınan 53 öğrenci fazla kiloluluk ve obeziteye neden olabilecek çeşitli risk faktörleri bakımından incelenmiştir. Veri toplama aracı olarak sedanter yaşam tarzı ve beslenme davranışlarına ilişkin soru formu kullanılmıştır. Verilerin analizinde Mann-Whitney U testi, ki-kare ve lojistik regresyon analizi kullanılmıştır. Bulgular: Öğrencilerde fazla kilolu ve obezite prevalansı %10.9 bulunmuştur. Ailede kilolu birey varlığı, günlük fiziksel aktivite süre ve sıklığı, günlük televizyon/bilgisayarda vakit geçirme ve ders çalışma süresi, okul içinde spor aktivitelerine katılmama ve ekran karşısında yiyecek yeme durumu vaka grubunda istatistiksel olarak anlamlı şekilde daha yüksektir. Ailede kilolu birey varlığı (OO = 14.56, %95 GA = 4.09-51.82), erkek cinsiyet (OO = 2.95, %95 GA = 6.82-53.61), dershaneye/kursa gitme (OO = 1.12, %95 GA = .03-.45) ve bilgisayar/TV izlerken yiyecek yeme (OO = 1.22, %95 GA = .06-.72) fazla kiloluluk ve obezite riskini artırmaktadır. Sonuç: Bu çalışmada, öğrencilerde fazla kiloluluk ve obezite için en önemli risk faktörleri ailede kilolu birey varlığı, dershaneye/kursa gitme ve bilgisayar/televizyon izlerken yiyecek yemedir.

Background The COVID‐19 pandemic and restrictions imposed to eradicate it have affected healthy lifestyle‐related behaviours. Aim The aim of this study was to determine the effect of COVID‐19 on lifestyle‐related behaviours. Methods This cross‐sectional web‐based survey research was performed with a convenience sample of 1020 adults residing in Turkey. Data were collected with self‐report data collection tools on 8–28 April 2021: a sociodemographic characteristics form and the impact of COVID‐19 on lifestyle‐related behaviours questionnaire. Results Eating behaviours, physical activity and sleep patterns of the participants were negatively affected during COVID‐19 pandemic ( p < 0.001). More than half of the participants experienced weight gain during the pandemic. Also, stress levels and smoking increased ( p < 0.01). The participants reported having changes in their lifestyles most frequently due to the fear of COVID‐19 infection, stress, decreased motivation, closure of the facilities for social and sports activities and increased food prices. Predictors of lifestyle‐related behaviours were found to be education (β = .189), income (β = −.101), residing in a village (β = .113) and the presence of a chronic disease (β = .075) ( p < 0.001). Conclusions During the pandemic, COVID‐19‐related restrictions should be applied whilst taking account of both social distancing measures and maintenance of healthy lifestyle‐related behaviours. Nurses should offer counselling for maintenance of healthy lifestyle‐related behaviours.

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