Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors and Affecting Factors in University Staff

Objective: This study was conducted to determine healthy lifestyle behaviors and factors affecting university employees.Method: This descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out with 330 academic and administrative staff working inErzincan University between 01-29.04.2011. The data of the study was collected using a questionnaire containing thedescriptive characteristics of the individuals and the Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors Scale. Percentage distributions, meanvalues, one way variance analysis, t test in independent groups, Mann Whitney-U test, Kruskal Walllis Analysis of Varianceand Spearman and Pearson correlation analysis were used in the analysis of the data. Results: Healthy Lifestyle BehaviorsScale of the academic and administrative staff was 126.07 ± 19.16; 118.78 ± 19.11. the highest mean score was obtainedfrom nutrition and interpersonal support, and the lowest mean was obtained from exercise sub-dimensions. In addition, it wasfound that gender, age and working time, education level, marital status, perception of institution success, smoking andsatisfaction with working life affected healthy lifestyle behaviors. Conclusion: The health behaviors of academic staff relatedto health promotion are higher than administrative staff. The level of healthy lifestyle behaviors of all employees is generallymedium and above average. In line with these results, it is recommended that training programs should be established andimplemented in areas where academic staff and administrative staff are inadequate in terms of health behavior.