School Surveys on Alcohol Use in Turkey: Are They Policy Oriented?

Ülger, Zekiye; Acar, Ceyda; Torun, Perihan

doi:10.15805/addicta.2015.2.1.078

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“…The second part consisted of a questionnaire form which investigated the type of internet access of the students, the period of usage of internet, which activities in the internet they participated in and with what frequency they participated in these activities, which was established as a result of literature screening perTurk Pediatri Ars 2016; 51: [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34] Çavdar et al Health behaviors in adolescents formed by the investigators and face to face interviews with the young individuals and which took its final shape as a result of a pilot study. In this study, only the time of usage of internet was included in the evaluation among these questions.…”

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“…It was observed that the rate of having experimented an alcoholic beverage was lower compared to the rate found in high school students in Istanbul (61%) and higher compared to the rate found in high school students in Samsun in 2008 (26.07%) (11,14). In a research study reviewing the studies which investigated the frequencies of consumption of alcohol in adolescents below the age of 18 years in Turkey, it was reported that the frequency of lifelong consumption of alcohol ranged between 4.4% and 65%, whereas the frequencies of consuming alcohol currently were reported to range between 6.5% and 42% in different studies conducted in different provinces in Turkey with adolescents at different ages (11,14,19,21,26,27). In this study, the rate of having experimented an alcoholic beverage was found to be lower compared to the rate found in high school students in USA in 2013 (66.2), but the fact that the rate of having drunk an alcoholic beverage at least for once in the last one month was higher compared to the rate found in USA (34.9%) draws attention to this problem (22).…”

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Health behaviors in high school students in İzmir, Turkey

Çavdar¹,

Sümer²,

Eliaçık³

et al. 2016

Turk Pediatri Ars

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Aim: The aim of this cross-sectional study was to determine the prevalence of the self reported health behaviors and differences in these behaviors by gender and grades in high school adolescents in İzmir, Turkey. Material and Methods:A stratified cluster sampling procedure was used for this cross-sectional study. The study sample included 2 296 students attending 22 high schools in Izmir. As a data collection instrument, some questions from the Health Behavior in School-aged Children Study 2009/2010 questionnnaire and questions which were developed by the researchers to understand behaviors of internet use in adolescents were used. Chi-square tests and Cramer's V statistics were used for statistical analyses.Results: Among the high school students, 33.8% experimented smoking, 26.3% smoked cigarette during the 30 days before the survey, 14.9% smoked cigarette regularly during the 30 days before the survey, 54.1% experimented drinking alcohol, 38.4% drunk alcohol during the 30 days before the survey, 31.6% got drunk, 10.9% were adequately physically active, 59.9% watched TV for a long period of time, 72.8% used internet for a long period of time, 48.1% ate breakfast regularly, 36.2% ate adequate amount of fruit, 14.1% ate adequate amount of vegetable, 31.3% ate candies and chocolate very often, 18% drunk soft drink very often, 30.3% were bullied, 29.9% bullied others and 41% involved in a physical fight. Conclusions:These results showed that "Adolescent friendly health services" should be generalized all over Turkey, physicians should evaluate each adolescent for his/her health behaviors in each visit and implementation of prevention programs which adopt a health promotion perspective is necessary begining from the elementary school. (Turk Pediatri Ars 2016; 51: 22-34)

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