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Title: Health and Institutional Change 5 th Nordic Health Promotion Research Conference Lifestyleoriented i


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Health and Institutional Change5 th Nordic
Health Promotion Research ConferenceLifestyle-ori
ented interventions IIMental Health of Students
in EuropeA comparison of university freshmen in
Turkey, Denmark and Germany
Meier S1, Stock C2, Mikolajczyk R1, Naydenova V1,
Bilir N3, Krämer A1 1 University of Bielefeld,
School of Public Health, Germany 2 University of
Southern Denmark, Unit for Health Promotion
Research, Denmark 3 Hacettepe University, School
of Public Health, Turkey
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Outline
  • Background
  • Questions
  • Methods
  • Description of the samples
  • Data
  • attitude towards health
  • health policy statements toward smoking and
    alcohol
  • health behaviour smoking, alcohol dependency
  • complaints
  • stress
  • Results and Conclusions

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Background
  • Universities as educational settings should play
    a leading role in creating supportive
    environments for health.
  • A detailed knowledge of the health and the health
    behavior of students and its determinants is
    necessary for developing interventions at
    universities.

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Questions
  • Are there differences in the
  • attitudes towards health and aspects of the
    health promoting setting university (smoking and
    alkohol)
  • risky health behaviours like smoking and alcohol
    dependency?
  • health status such as psychosomatic complaints
    and perceived stress
  • between university students from different
    countries?

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Methods
  • Cross-sectional study
  • Three different universities in Turkey, Denmark
    and Germany
  • N2,311
  • Students in the first academic year
  • Standardized questionnaire
  • Data collection during lecture

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Description of the samples
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To what extend do you take care of your health?
(to some extend or very much)
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Daily and occasional smokers
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At risk for alcohol dependency (CAGEgt1)
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Do you agree with the following statements (I
partly agree or I fully agree)
I agree with a smoke-free university building
Alcohol should not be sold at the university
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Mean Perceived Stress Score (PSS, Range 0-4)
Differences between countries ANOVA p lt 0.001
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Psychosomatic Complaints I (more often or very
often during the last 12 months)
Nervousness
Headache
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Psychosomatic Complaints II (more often or very
often during the last 12 month)
Sleeping Disorders
Depressive Mood
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Results
  • Country Aspects
  • Danish students care a lot about their health and
    report the lowest rates of stress and
    complaints. They show lower interest in the
    health promoting setting university.
  • Turkish students smoke and drink less then
    students from Denmark or Germany and show
    higher interest in the health promoting setting
    university. They show a lower interest in
    their personal health and report more stress and
    complaints.
  • German students show the highest rates of
    smoking and drinking.
  • Gender Aspect
  • There were striking gender differences with
    women reporting overall better health
    behavior, a higher interest in the health
    promoting setting and more perceived stress
    and more psychosomatic complaints.

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Conclusions
  • Appraisal of the results
  • The results correspondent to findings of earlier
    investigations - The spanisch students
    reported the same high rates of complaints as
    the turkish students did.
  • In comparision to other countrys the danish
    population is healthier and reports a higher
    quality of life.
  • In comparison to the population of the same age
    in the analysed countrys the intervieweed
    students smoke less, except the turkish women.
  • Questions to ask
  • Does more reported stress and complaints mean
    that students (e.g. turkish
  • students, female students) are more likely to
    be ill or does it give a hint on
  • more sensibility of this target group?
  • Interventions to be taken
  • The effort of smoke-free policy such as
    smoke-free restaurants should be enforced in
    Germany.
  • In willingness of the majority of the students
    to accept a smoke-free setting, it should be
    implemented into praxis.

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Thank you for your attention!
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