Evaluation of nursing and medical students' attitudes towards people with disabilities

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 19, Issue 15-16, 2010, Pages 2271-2279

  Sahin, Hatice ^a   Akyol, Asiye D ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Curriculum planning; Disability; Education programme; Nursing students; Students

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISABLED PERSON; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; NURSING STUDENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; EVALUATION STUDY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; STUDENTS, NURSING;

EID: 77955941908     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2009.03088.x     Document Type: Article

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