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    The impact of occupational education on obesity prejudice of university students
    (2021) Ercan, Aydan; Altun, Simay; Ok, Mehtap Akcil
    Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the obesity related prejudices and negative attitudes of university students who study in health and non-health fields. Subjective and Methods: This is a descriptive study conducted to determine the obesity prejudice levels of students studying in health and social fields. A total of 732 students (577 females, 155 males) of different faculties of a university participated in the study voluntarily. The Prejudice was measured with Obesity Prejudice Scale (OPS). Analysis of Variance and Covariance were used to investigate relationships between of OPS scores and factors. Results: A total of 732 students, 577 (78.8%) females and 155 (21.2%) males, participated in this study, which was conducted to determine obesity prejudices of university students. According to their mean OPS scores, 18.4% of the students were found to be unprejudiced, 55.1% prone to be prejudiced, and 26.5% prejudiced. The intragroup comparisons of mean OPS scores of health and social field students indicated that the differences between the prejudiced and the unprejudiced were statistically highly significant (p<0.0001). Conclusions: In order to prevent the development of internalized obesity prejudices emerging as a result of prejudices against obese individuals in the society and their stigmatization, this problem must be solved at an early age, especially during university education. It is necessary that state policies should be established to monitor the attitudes of individuals towards obesity, people should be educated and supervised on this subject, and that further research representing the society on this topic should be conducted.
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    Üniversite öğrencilerinin obeziteye ilişkin önyargılarının belirlenmesi
    (Başkent Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Enstitüsü, 2015) Altun, Simay; Aydan, Ercan
    Bu çalışma, üniversite öğrencilerinin obeziteye ilişkin önyargı ve olumsuz tutumlarını belirlemek amacıyla yapılmıştır. Çalışma verileri Nisan-Haziran 2015 tarihleri arasında, Başkent Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Fakültesi ve Ticari Bilimler Fakültesi’ne devam eden 732 öğrenciden elde edilmiştir. Öğrencilerin demografik ve antropometrik özellikleri araştırmacı tarafından hazırlanan anket formu ile elde edilmiştir. Obezite önyargılarının değerlendirilmesi amacıyla GAMS-27 Obezite Önyargı Ölçeği kullanılmıştır. Toplamda 80 (%10,9) kişi önyargılı olduğunu beyan etmiştir ancak ölçek puan sınıflamasına göre toplamda 403 (%55.1) kişi önyargıya eğilimli ve 194 (%26,5) kişi önyargılı bulunmuştur. Öğrencilerin kendi önyargı beyanları ile ölçekten aldıkları puan ortalamaları karşılaştırıldığında, önyargılı olduğunu beyan edenler ile önyargısız olduğunu beyan edenler arasında ki puan farkı istatiksel olarak önemli bulunmuştur (p=0.000). Önyargılı olduğunu beyan eden öğrencilerin puan ortalaması ( X =72.5±10.40) önyargısız olduğunu beyan eden öğrencilerin puan ortalamasından (X =79.0 ±11.20) düşüktür. Kendini şişman olarak tanımlayan ve Beden Kütle İndeksi (BKİ) sınıflamasına göre şişman bulunan öğrencilerin ( X =82.1±12.43) en yüksek puan ortalamasına sahip olduğu saptanmıştır. Hem Sağlık Bilimleri Fakültesi’nde hem de Ticari Bilimler Fakültesi’nde ölçek puan sınıflamasına göre önyargıya eğilimli bulunanların sayısının (403-%55.1) önyargılı bulunanların sayısından (194-%26.5) fazla olduğu görülmüştür. Çalışmanın sonucunda üniversite öğrencilerinin obezite önyargılarının ilerleyen iş yaşamlarında mesleki becerilerini etkileme olasılığı göz önünde bulundurulduğunda obezite önyargısını azaltmaya yönelik eğitim müdahalelerinin gerekliliği ortaya konmuştur. This survey was conducted to determine the bias and negative attitudes against obesity. Research data were obtained from 732 students studying Faculty of Health Sciences and Commercial Sciences in Baskent University. Demographic and anthropometric characteristics of the students were collected from questionnaire prepared by the researcher. GAMS-27 Obesity Bias Scale was used for determining obesity bias. In total 80 (10.9%) students declared that they have bias against obesity but according to the scale scores classification 403 (55.1%) students were tend to bias and 194 students (26,5%) were biased. When students who declared that they were biased were compared with the average scores they had from the scale, points difference between students described themselves as prejudiced and students described themselves as unprejudiced found statistically important (p=0.000). The average score of students who described themselves as prejudiced ( X =72.5±10.40) was lower than the average score of students who described themselves as unprejudiced ( X =79.0 ±11.20). Students who described themselves as overweight and students who were obese according to the Body Mass Index (BMI) classification ( X =82.1±12.43) had the highest scores. According to the classification of scale points both in the Faculty of Health Sciences and Faculty of Commercial Sciences, the number of students who tended to prejudice against obesity (403-55.1%) were higher than the number of students who were prejudice against obesity (194-26.5%). As a result of the study, taking into account the possibility of university students' obesity bias to influence their professional skills in their future business life, it was asserted that there was a need for training interventions aimed to decrease obesity bias.