Attitudes of Turkish Blue Collar Workers Toward Healthy Nutrition

Abstract: This study is aimed at determining the behaviors in terms of healthy nutrition blue collar workers. 300 workers in total, 150 of which are women and 150 of which are men who work in textile factories in Bursa province were included in the content of the study The socio-demographic characteristics and behaviors in terms of healthy nutrition of the workers who were included in the study were taken into consideration. The data were evaluated according to SPSS 11.0 package software and also chi square test, independent samples test, one-way ANOVA analysis and sheffe test were used. According to the obtained results, it was detected that the majority (49.3%) of the workers were in the 21-31 age range, were graduates of high school (44.3%) and were married (65.3%). It can be seen that the maximum score that workers could obtain was 148, instead of the total possible score of 165. This shows that approximately 71.5 % of the total possible score was obtained by the workers. Key words: Blue collar worker, healthy nutrition, healthy eating habit