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Applications of family planning methods help women to keep their health conditions in a better way. By the help of family planning, the couples may have children whenever they want and they can limit the number of their children according to their willingness. This study has been designed to evaluate family planning knowledge levels of the nursing students of Ege University Ödemis School of Health. The students who were in 1 and 2 classes have formed Group A and these students did not have any educatipn about family planning. The students who were in 3 rd and 4 th classes have formed group B and these students had education about family planning. This research has been designed as a descriptive study, and data of the research have been collected from 128 nursing students (all of the students) in January of 2003. Data of the research have been collected by the help of questionary papers which had been answvered under the supervision of the researcher. Data that were collected have been mentioned by means of numbers, percentages and tables. And "T test" has been used for the statistical analyses of the data at this study.Arithmetic mean of the ages of nursing students at this research has been found as 21 +1.32. The family planning knowledge level of the students at group B have been found much better than the group A. Besides, this difference has also been statistically significant.

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