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In this study, it was aimed to examine the effect of health promotion course on nursing students’ healthy life style behaviors. This quasi-experimental study with a pretest and posttest was conducted with 70 nursing students in their third year in a university between September 25 and December 28, 2019. Data were collected using a personal information form and the Healthy Lifestyle Behavior Scale II. Data analysis was performed using percentages, means, standard deviation, the Kurtosis, Skewness, and Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, and the Paired Sample t test. Significance was evaluated at the p<0.05 level. The students’ total score on the Healthy Lifestyle Behavior Scale II was 120.75±21.30 before they took the health promotion course and it became 134.42±23.19 after they took the course. The difference between these scores were significant (p<0.05). Their mean scores on the scale’s health responsibility, physical activity, nutrition, interpersonal relations, and stress management subscales were found to increase significantly after they took this course (p<0.05). No significant difference was found between their mean score on the spiritual development before (24.82±4.79) and after (25.64±4.38) they took the course (p>0.05). In this study, the health promotion course increased the nursing students’ healthy life style behaviors score. Universities’ curricula should be taken care to include such courses to enable students to acquire healthy life style behaviors and transfer these behaviors to the individuals to whom they provide care in their professional life.

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