The quality of life in adolescent in secondary public schools in Bornova/Izmir; [İzmir/Bornova ilköǧretim ikinci kademe devlet okullarındaki ergenlerde yaşam kalitesi]
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2012
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Objective: To measure the quality of life in adolescents and to indicate determinates of quality of life in Bor-nova/Turkey. Methods: The study design is cross sectional. It is performed at the secondary school grade 6, 7, 8 in Bornova/Turkey (n=17545). The data collected between April and June 2009. The sample size is 736 by the design effect 2, prevalence 50 %, confidence interval 95 %, standard error 5%. Three forms were used for data collection: the Adolescent Version of KINDL-R (Kiddo-Kindl), WHO Health Behaviour in School-aged Children's (HBSC) Question-naire and a questionnaire for sociodemographic characteristics. The data were assessed by SPSS 10.0 and student t test, Mann Whitney-U test, One-Way ANOVA, logistic regression were used to analyze. Results: Forty-eight percent of students had the social relations score under the average score of the group, 36.3% had family-school relationships score under the average score of the group, 34.7% had teacher attitude score under the average score of the group, 42.6% had mother's attitude score under the average score of the group and 40.9% of students had father's attitude score below the average attitude score. According to the findigs of this study of the adolescent is determined by the quality of life of young people's socioeconomic level, family and social relationships, family-school relationships, the perceived attitudes of teachers, school attitudes and health behavior. Conclusion: According to the findings of the study, efforts consisting of improving positive parents' attitude, positive school life and adolescents' health behavior should make to promote the QOL in adolescents.