title: The effect of disability empathy activity on the attitude of nursing students towards disabled people: a pilot study.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Nurses care for disabled people in society.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  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.
  
  
  METHODS
  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 (66.81 ± 14.27) 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.
authors.affiliation: a Faculty of Health Sciences, Pediatric Nursing Department , Necmettin Erbakan University , Konya , Turkey.
authors.forename: Emine
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Geçkil
authors.affiliation: a Faculty of Health Sciences, Pediatric Nursing Department , Necmettin Erbakan University , Konya , Turkey.
authors.forename: Elanur
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kaleci
authors.affiliation: b Faculty of Health Sciences, Public Health Nursing Department , Necmettin Erbakan University , Konya , Turkey.
authors.forename: Dilek
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cingil
authors.affiliation: b Faculty of Health Sciences, Public Health Nursing Department , Necmettin Erbakan University , Konya , Turkey.
authors.forename: Filiz
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hisar
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D004645:Empathy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010865:Pilot Projects; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014421:Turkey
keywords: attitude strengthening; attitudes towards the disabled person; empathy activity; nursing student