title: Health-related behaviors and nutritional status of adolescents who study asboarders and day-students.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Boarders and day-students study together in regional boarding schools. This study was carried out to compare the health and nutritional status of boarders and day-students who study at regional boarding schools in Turkey.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total 634 boarders and 492 day-students in the 4th-8th years of nine boarding schools in Giresun Province of Turkey were included. A questionnaire including 49 questions about sociodemographic characteristics and health and nutritional status was completed by the students. Height and weight measurements of the students were also taken. The chi-square test was used for statistical analyses.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The boarders evaluated their health status as worse than the day-students. The proportion of the students having three meals a day was higher among the boarders than the day-students. According to BMI values, 11% of the boarders were evaluated as underweight, 77% as normal, 9.5% as overweight, and 2.5% as obese. These proportions were respectively 15.5%, 67.3%, 12.8%. and 4.5% for the day-students.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The boarders have more regular diets and the proportion of normal-weighed boarders was higher than that of the day-students. However, they perceived their health as worse than the day-tudents.
authors: Faculty of Health Sciences, Giresun University, Giresun, Turkey.
authors: Emine Ela
authors: EE
authors: Küçük
authors: Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey.
authors: Osman
authors: O
authors: Günay
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D015992:Body Mass Index; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D006801:Humans; D009752:Nutritional Status; D050177:Overweight; D012574:Schools; D013334:Students; D014421:Turkey
keywords: Adolescent; boarder; boarding school; day-student; nutritional status