The Effect of Privacy Education on Nursing Students' Privacy Consciousness and Attitudes Towards Patient Privacy

Change from Baseline in Privacy Consciousness on the 5 mean point The Privacy Consciousness Scale (PCS) Week 8, Week 12, and Week 24,Change from Baseline in Attitudes Toward Patient Privacy on the 5 mean point The Patient Privacy Scale (PPS) Week 8, Week 12, and Week 24

This study was conducted in a pre-test-post-test, factorial group randomized controlled
 experimental design to determine the effect of privacy education on nursing students' privacy
 consciousness and attitudes towards patient privacy. The universe of the study consisted of
 the third-grade students (n = 239) registered in Gazi University Faculty of Health Sciences
 Nursing Department in the Fall Semester of the 2020-2021 Academic Year. All students (n =
 239) were evaluated according to the exclusion criteria from the study. The students who met
 the inclusion criteria (n = 116) were informed about the research. A pre-test was applied to
 the students (n = 116) who volunteered to participate in the study. According to gender, 116
 students were randomly assigned to the control group (n = 38), study group I (n = 40), and
 study group II (n = 38) by a statistician by computer technique. Data were collected November
 2020 and February 2021 using the Informative Features Form, the Privacy Consciousness Scale,
 The Patient Privacy Scale, and Students' Views on Education Form.