ATATÜRK ÜNİVERSİTESİ SAĞLIK HİZMETLERİ MESLEK YÜKSEKOKULU ÖĞRENCİLERİNİN HİJYEN HAKKINDAKİ FARKINDALIK SEVİYELERİ

Objective: It is important to determine the knowledge level and hygiene habits of university students

on hygiene. In this study, it was aimed to determine the level of awareness of health services

vocational school students about hygiene and to observe what can be done to eliminate the detected

problems in hygiene.

Methods: The universe of the descriptive research was selected as students studying at a university's

vocational school of health services. In this study, 685 students who accepted to participate in the

study without using the sampling method were included in the study. The “Hygiene Questionnaire”

consisting of 45 questions developed by the researchers and the “Sociodemographic Information

Form” consisting of 10 questions were applied to the students. Descriptive statistics were used to

evaluate the data. Ethics committee approval was obtained for the research.

Results: The mean age of the students is 19.97±1.49 and 75.90% of them are girls. 4.08% of the

students were operating room services, 4.81% anesthesia, 9.05% dental prosthesis technology,

8.61% dialysis, 11.82% pharmacy services, 4.37% disabled care and rehabilitation, 7.88%

physiotherapy, 4.37% first and emergency aid, 4.37% audiometry, 1.60% orthopedic prosthesis and

orthotics, 7.15% medical documentation and secretarial, 17.22% medical imaging techniques,

13.57% medical laboratory techniques, % It was determined that 1.02 of them were studying in the

department of elderly care. It was determined that 95.8% of the boys and 99.0% of the girls knew

the necessity of periodic examination in order to be protected from infectious diseases in the

working environment and the difference was statistically significant (p˂0.05).

Conclusion: The level of awareness can be improved by giving more place to the subject of personal

hygiene in the contents of the courses taken by the students. With awareness studies, it will be

possible to make personal hygiene perceptible at the highest level.

Keywords: Hygiene; infectious disease; university student