Determination of Basic Needs Satisfaction of Students Studying in the Department of First and Emergency Aid

Abstract

The aim of this study; It is the determination of the satisfaction of the basic needs of university students. Research; The research was carried out with the participation of 1st year students studying in the first and emergency aid department of a foundation university and 93 students (Female: 75, Male 18) between 30.11.2022 and 10.04.2023. The "Personal Information Form" prepared by the researchers in the collection of the research data was collected with the "Basic Needs Satisfaction of University Students Scale". Analyses were performed with SPSS 25.0 program. In the analysis, the significance level was determined as 5%. Number, percentage, mean, standard deviation, median, minimum and maximum values were used as descriptive statistics. Histogram graphs were examined to check the normal distribution assumption. In addition, attention was paid to the fact that the skewness and kurtosis coefficients were between -1 and +1. In the comparison of the means of the two independent groups, if the normal distribution assumption is satisfied, the independent samples t-test; When normal distribution could not be achieved, Mann Whitney U test was used. Correlation analyses were performed to determine the relationships between quantitative variables. Since the normal distribution assumption could not be satisfied, Spearman correlation analysis was applied. In this study, the majority of the participants in the study were women, single, did not have children, studied in normal education, whose income was equal to their expenses, lived with their families, did not smoke or drink alcohol, and were able to meet the basic needs of the majority. Within the scope of "competence, autonomy and relationship", which are the scale sub-dimension scores of the participants participating in the study; There was no significant difference between gender, type of education, cohabitation status with family, and smoking and alcohol use. While there was no significant relationship between the ages of the participants and the "competence and autonomy" sub-dimension, a negative, weak and significant relationship was found between the age and the "relationship" sub-dimension, and it was determined that as the age of the participants increased, their satisfaction with their relations with the people at the university decreased. In this study, it was determined that meeting the basic needs satisfaction of the students studying in the first and emergency aid program has an important place.