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Volume 6, Issue 4 (Suppl) J Nurs Care, an open access journal
ISSN: 2167-1168 Euro Nursing 2017
October 26-28, 2017
32nd EURO
NURSING AND MEDICARE SUMMIT
October 26-28, 2017 | Paris, France
Determination of healthcare student’s bias towards Obesity
Hasret YALCINOZ BAYSAL and Metin YILDIZ
Ataturk University, Turkey
Aim: This study was conducted to determine the prejudices of health education students on obesity.
Material andMethod: The research was carried out as a descriptive research between February and April 2017. The population
consisted of all students (729) who were studying in the health departments of Agri Ibrahim Cecen University Faculty of
Health and Health Services Vocational School in the 2016-2017 academic year. The sampling method was not applied, as the
population composed of 729 students who voluntarily accepted to participate in the study. A questionnaire and GAMS-27
Obesity Prejudice Scale were used as data collection tools. The approval of ethics committee and institutional permissions were
obtained before conducting the research. Number, percentage, Cronbach α, Kruskall Wallis, Mann Whitney-U, Spearman’s
rank of correlation and Shapiro-Wilk Test were utilized to evaluate the data.
Results: The average of obesity prejudice scale of the students was 75.54±10.43, thus they tend to prejudge. The average score of
the students who declare they have no prejudice towards obese individuals is higher (X=75.91±10.07) than the average score of
the students who declare that they are prejudiced (X=73.60±12.03). It was determined that the students who define themselves
as obese and who are obese according to Body Mass Index classification had the highest average score (X=76.49±11.02). A
statistically significant difference was found between the obesity prejudice scale of the students and only the sex of the students,
among all the social and demographic characteristics (p<0.05).
Conclusion: According to the results of the study, when the effects of the obesity prejudice of health education students on
health services are considered, the necessity of educational interventions was revealed to reduce obesity prejudice.
Key Words: Healthcare, obesity, obesity prejudice, stigmatization.
Biography
Hasret YALCINOZ BAYSAL finished PhD in Nursing from Ataturk University in the field of Public Health Nursing in 2013. She received the title of Assistant
Professor in the same year. She has conducted research on subject such as exercise, screening, cancer, nursing, obesity. Currently, Ataturk University, Faculty of
Nursing is Assistant Professor.
Hasret YALCINOZ BAYSAL et al., J Nurs Care 2017, 6:4(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2167-1168-C1-061