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    Determination of constipation in nursing students and factors affecting
    (Maltepe Üniversitesi, 2019) Çiçek, Eylem; Aslan, Sinan; Yılmaz, Dilek
    OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to determine the constipation problems of nursing students and the variables that affect it. METHOD: The research was conducted on the first, second, third and fourth year students of Batman University School of Nursing in 2018- 2019 Fall Semester. The sample of the study consisted of 218 nursing students who accepted to participate voluntarily. In the collection of data, “Student Information Form” and “Constipation Severity Scale (CSS)” were used. In order to conduct the study, the necessary legal permits were obtained from the author who conducted the validity and reliability study of CSS, Local Ethics Committee, the institution where the study was conducted and from the students. Students were informed about that all of the data will be used for scientific study and that the answers will not affect the course grades in any way. In the evaluation of the data, Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) 20.0 software was used and descriptive statistics, Independent t-test, ANOVA test, and Pearson Correlation analysis were used. RESULTS: The average age of the students included in the study was 21,14 ± 2,34 (17-39 years), 55,5% of the students were female, 33% were in their senior year, 55% were living at home with their parents, 85,6% were not smoking, 93,6% had no chronic disease and 76,6% were doing regular exercise. 56,9% of the students were eating three times a day, 38,5% two times a day, 67,9% of the students were occasionally consuming pulpy/fibrous foods, the daily average of consumed water among students was 7.69 ± 4.16 cups and coffee was 3.83 ± 2.44 cups. The mean total CSS score of the students was 27,83±7,85 and the mean score of the sub-scales was calculated as Intestinal Obstruction 12,53±3,48, Lazy bowels 11,56±3,84 and the Pain 2,29±2,62. It was determined that there were differences between gender, exercise status, consumption of pulpy/fibrous foods and daily tea/coffee consumption quantity variables and the mean score of CSS. CONCLUSION: It was observed that there were constipation problems in nursing students and this problem was more experienced by students who were not doing exercise, consuming less pulpy/fibrous foods and who were female.