Annals of Medical Research, cilt.13, sa.2, ss.95-102, 2006 (Hakemli Dergi)
This study has been planned to determine the self-care agency and the effective factors of the students studying at both health and social vocational collages. The average self-care agency point of the students is 90.58 + 20.03 and point interval is 33-133. The average self-care agency point of the students at health programs, of girls, of those who have social insurance, and of those who have their own rooms has been found to be significantly high. A significant difference has been found between the average point of self-care agency scale of the students depending on the places students live in (P<0.05). There is a significant difference between the average point of self-care agency scale of the students depending on smoking cigarettes (P<0.05), and it has been determined that the cause of this difference is due to the groups who still smoke, the groups who have never smoked and the groups who have stopped smoking. The average point of self-care agency of the students who still consume alcohol has been found to be significantly higher than those who either drink alcohol seldomly or who have stopped drinking alcohol. The average point of self-care agency of the students who have declared that they didn’t have any illnesses at the time of the study has been found to be significantly high. (P<0.05).