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Is Medical Check-Up Useful for Physician among New University Students During Enrolling Time to University? a Survey of 640 New University Students
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Specialist of Family Medicine, Blood
Bank Unıt, Faculty of Medicine, University
of Uludag, Bursa, Turkey
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Assistant Professor, Department of
Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine,
University of Suleyman Demırel,
Isparta, Turkey
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Specialist of Family Medicine, Bursa
Fethiye District Clinic & Research
and Training Center of Family Medicine,
Bursa, Turkey.
Online publication date: 2009-04-15
Publication date: 2009-04-15
Corresponding author
Kurtuluş Öngel
Süleyman Demirel University, Faculty
of Medicine Head of Department of
Family Medicine Çünür/Isparta
Tel: +90.246.2113655 +90.505.6487644
Fax: +90.246.2371165
Eur J Gen Med 2009;6(2):69-73
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ABSTRACT
Aim: The aim of this study is to investigate the health problems
of the recently enrolled new university students in Celal Bayar
University, Manisa, Turkey and to expose whether the information
gathered will be useful for the future follow up of the students.
Methods: 640 students who were elected by the Students’
Selection and Ranking Examination (Öğrenci Seçme Sınavı-OSS), had
been contributed in our study during enrolling time to university;
September 2006. Our sample had been constituted of students
coming from very different regions, representing the Turkish student
population.
Results: 42.7% of subjects were male and 57.3% were female.
Following prevalence are found for diseases and addictions:
Headache 10.8%, allergy 7.3%, anemia 5.8%, gastritis 5.8%, smoking
39.6%, alcohol drinking 2.4%, epilepsy 1.4%, recovered tuberculosis
0.6%. Female students had suffered much more headache, gastritis,
anemia than male students (respectively p= 0.000, p= 0.037
and p=0.000). 55.7% of the male students and 27.5% of the female
students were smokers. All of the drinkers were male. Headache
and gastritis had been found associated with each other (Spearman
r=0.259, p=0.000). Headache was found higher in subjects with
epilepsy than others (p= 0.020).
Conclusion: Physicians of school based health centers, firstly, must
understand students’ health problems. This study emphasizes the
importance of health screening of enrolling students in the registration
time and the necessity of school based health centers.