Attitudes of students who receive health education in a foundation university regarding age discrimination

Abstract

The study was carried out in order to determine the attitudes of students who receive health education in a foundation university regarding age discrimination. The universe of the descriptive cross-sectional type study was created by students who received education in the spring term of 2013-2014. All the universe was target and accessible 620 students willing to participate the study were involved. The data was collected from the "Questionnaire" and "Age discrimination attitude scale (YATO)". The results were analysed with SPSS 17.0 package program. At the end of study 68,5% of the participating students were women and their average of age was 21,41 +/- 3,12. The general YATO point average of the students was determined as 68,16 +/- 6,48. YATO points of the male students were higher and the difference between the genders is statistically meaningful (p<0,05). It was detected that the students have a positive attitude against old discrimination. In line with the results it can be recommended to add education and consultancy programmes about old age and old discrimination to the syllabus of health education receiving students. Crown Copyright (C) 2014 Published by Elsevier Ltd.