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Attitudes Towards the Elderly Among Medical Students and Related Factors

Özgür Özerdoğan
Esen Eker
Buse Yüksel
Sibel Oymak
Coşkun Bakar
Pages
53–60
Publication Date
2022-10-12
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BACKGROUND/AIMS: this study aimed to determine the attitudes towards elderly people and related factors among medical students. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The population of this cross-sectional study consisted of 385 students in the fourth, fifth and sixth classes studying at a medical school. The questionnaire consisted of sociodemographic characteristics, the Kogan’s Attitude Toward Old People Scale and the Beck Hopelessness Scale. For the analysis of the data, difference between two means, variance test, Mann-Whitney U test and Spearman Correlation Analysis was used. For statistical significance, p

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Özerdoğan, Ö., Eker, E., Yüksel, B., Oymak, S., Bakar, C. (2022). Attitudes Towards the Elderly Among Medical Students and Related Factors. Cyprus Journal of Medical Sciences, Cilt: 7 - Sayı: 1, 53–60. https://ajindex.com/articles/482119

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