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Medicine, superstitious and religious beliefs are transmitted through generations in a certain society via words or texts. The identity of an individual in society, his/her faith, cultural behaviors and habits determine his/her attitude towards society. In some cases the borders amidst medicine, superstitious and religious beliefs are quite apart from one another while they get blurred occasionally. The knowledge that turns one of these faiths into behavior changes in the course of time, its starting point is forgotten yet it still continues to exist. It changes with respect to time and space. A good number of beliefs which are taken for granted not because they are right but they work save people from ambiguity and provide self comfort. Human attitudes and behaviors related to health may become affected by one’s superstitious beliefs. In that sense, present study aims to explore superstitious belief related attitudes and behaviors of university students who have selected medical careers. To gather data in this study, a survey form consisting of 28 questions relevant of participants’ age, gender, the city they lived prior to university education, personal beliefs that are defined as superstitions, daily works and practices that are related to sickness has been used . In this study, out of 276 students enrolled in health services vocational school and first year in medical school, 184 (66.6%) students were accessed. At the end of present study it has been concluded that students possess personally and socially shared superstitious beliefs yet they performed no superstitious attitudes in the face of sickness-related questions directed in the survey form.

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