The impact of health behaviours development training on healthy lifestyle behaviours amongst adolescents with obesity risk: A school example in a city in western Turkey

Objective: to determine the impact of health behaviours development training on healthy lifestyle. methods: this pre-experiment research was conducted at a junior high school governed by aydin provincial directorate of national education in aydin,turkey,from november 2014 to december 2015,and comprised students. all the students with obesity risk were included. participants were asked to complete the questionnaire,and healthy lifestyle behaviours scale ii.spss 18 was used for data analysis. results: of the 1,042 students,78(7.48%) were included in the study. of them,38(48.7%) were girls and 40(51.3%) were boys. the overall mean age was 11.77±0.92 years. it was found that healthy lifestyle behaviour improved after the training (p<0.05). conclusion: adolescents assessed with the healthy lifestyle behaviour scale ii had higher post-training scores. © 2017,pakistan medical association. all rights reserved.