@article{article_124926, title={Risk Perceptions and Behavioral Intentions of First Year University Students for Hepatitis B}, journal={The Journal of Kırıkkale University Faculty of Medicine}, volume={17}, pages={21–28}, year={2016}, DOI={10.24938/kutfd.124926}, url={https://izlik.org/JA54PM63HR}, author={Bülbül, Selda and Muluk, Nuray and Çiftçi, Gamze}, keywords={Hepatitis B,vaccination,university,students}, abstract={<p>This investigation examined knowledge of HB disease and HB immunization status of university students. </p> <p>This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted with 2693 (male 53,2%,female 46,2%) first year students in Kırıkkale University. Their knowledge and behaviours on HB disease and vaccination were investigated via self-filled questionnaires. </p> <p>Mean age of 2639 students was 20.89±4.24 years (min: 17, max: 56). Among all, 70,6% of the students answered the question “Do you know Hepatitis B?” as “yes”. When transmission routes were asked, only 0,8% could wrote more than 2 ways and 47,3% mentioned that they do not know any way for transmission. Gender differences in knowledge were observed (p=0,0000). As age was increased, answering the question as “yes” was increased, where 36 – 45 years age group had the highest (92,5%) rate among all (p=0.010). Among all, only 48,3% of the students mentioned that they were vaccinated against HB, where 27,8% didn’t know whether they were vaccinated or not. More students from faculties related with health such as; Medical, veterinery, health sciences and dentistry faculty mentioned that have knowledge on HB and more students were vaccinated against HB comparing to the other faculties. </p>It is once more well documented that, youngs are not aware of the risk they could face in future. Because of the low risk perception they do not use the given health service. Much more is needed to be done to increase the risk perception of Hepaititis B and other communicative diseases.}, number={3}