СРАВНИТЕЛЕН АНАЛИЗ НА КАЧЕСТВОТО НА ЖИВОТ СВЪРЗАНО СЪС ЗДРАВЕТО ПРИ 17-ГОДИШНИ БЪЛГАРСКИ И ТУРСКИ ЮНОШИ

Studying health in its various manifestations, such as physical, mental and social well-being, is particularly important in adolescence. Most young people don’t have serious illnesses, but they still experience psychological and psychosomatic symptoms. Typical characteristic for the adolescent age is the emergence and development of emotional and behavioral problems concerning the psychological and physiological changes of their organism. Those changes can be in their living context, Changing school and friends, changes in family structure, relationships with parents, etc. The aim of this study is to examine the subjective assessment of health-related quality of life in 17-year-old Bulgarian and Turkish youths. The research was made among 2490 adolescents at 17 years of age from Bulgaria and Turkey who participated in the international study of "The Health Behavior in School-aged Children" (HBSC)-2016 ("Behavior and Health of School-aged Children"). The data is provided by the Ministry of Health of Bulgaria and the Ministry of Health of Turkey and is a part of representative samples for both countries. The so-called. "Mental Health Scale" was used. It is a Non-clinical measure of psychological well-being, affecting various emotional, cognitive, psycho-genetic and psychological aspects. A comparison was made between adolescents, divided into groups based on the data concerning the scale that regard some health measures-self-assessment of health, psychosomatic complaints and life satisfaction. The independent impact of health, family, peer, and school environment factors on the health-related quality of life has been investigated. Common tendencies and predictors of psychological well-being have been established for Bulgarian and Turkish youth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]