Geckil, EmineKaleci, ElanurCingil, DilekHisar, Filiz2024-02-232024-02-2320171037-61781839-3535https://doi.org/10.1080/10376178.2017.1292143https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12452/13146Background: Nurses care for disabled people in society.Objectives: The aim of this experimental study was to investigate the effect of disability empathy activities on strengthening the positive attitudes of nursing students towards disabled people.Design: An experimental study. Pretest-Posttest control group arrangement was used.Methods: This research has been conducted with 116 nursing students (53 experimental and 63 control). The data were collected with Attitudes Towards Disabled Persons Scale (ATDP).Results: Before the experiment, there was no significant difference between ATDP scores of experimental and control groups (p>0.05). After the experiment, second ATDP scores of experimental group (66.8114.27) were found to be significantly higher than the scores of control group (59.02 +/- 11.71) (p=0.002). After six months, third ATDP scores of experimental group (63.58 +/- 13.46) were also found to be higher than the scores of control group (58.43 +/- 11.03) (p=0.025).Conclusions: Empathy activities applied to understand disabled people affected the attitudes of student nurses towards disabled people positively.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessNursing StudentAttitudes Towards The Disabled PersonAttitude StrengtheningEmpathy ActivityArticle5318293282770922-s2.0-85014482898Q2WOS:000399553600008Q410.1080/10376178.2017.1292143