RESEARCH ON THE ATTÄ°TUDES OF WOMEN WHO REGULARLY EXERCÄ°SE Ä°N GYMS TOWARDS HEALTHY NUTRÄ°TÄ°ON (BÄ°LECÄ°K CÄ°TY CENTER EXAMPLE)

The aim of this study is to investigate the attitudes of women who regularly exercise in gyms in Bilecik city center towards healthy nutrition. 200 women participated in the study voluntarily. The ‘Attitude Scale Towards Healthy Nutrition’ developed by Tekkurşun Demir and Cicioğlu (2019) was used as the data collection tool. No statistically significant differences were found in the sub-dimensions of knowledge about nutrition, feelings towards nutrition and positive nutrition according to the working status of the women participating in the study, knowledge about nutrition, feelings towards nutrition, and positive nutrition according to the settlement where they have lived for a long time, monthly personal income, years of exercise, leisure activities and smoking status (p>0.05). Statistically significant differences were found in the sub-dimensions of positive nutrition habits and bad nutrition habits from the healthy nutrition habits according to the educational status, bad nutrition habits according to the working status, and bad nutrition habits from the healthy nutrition habits according to the smoking status (p>0.05). In the evaluation of the data, it was observed that the data were normally distributed by looking at the Skewness and Kurtosis values, whether the prerequisites of the parametric tests were met or not, since they were in the range of -1.0±1.0. Since the data showed a normal distribution, Independent Sample T-Test, One-Way Anova analysis tests were applied to the data as statistical analysis.