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This research was conducted to determine the effect of intercultural approaches of midwifery students on their empathy and compassion levels. The research was descriptively carried out. The sample of the research composed of freshmen and senior midwifery students (147 people) studying in the midwifery departments of a university in the Central Anatolia region. The data of research were collected by the "Student Description Form", "Intercultural Sensitivity Scale", "Basic Empathy Scale" and "Compassion Scale". The mean, standard deviation, percentage distribution, Fisher Exact test, Chi square test, Mann-Whitney U test and Spearman correlation test were used for statistical evaluation. There was a statistically significant difference between the levels of intercultural sensitivity, empathy and compassion of the freshmen and senior students (p<0.05). The level of intercultural sensitivity, compassion and cognitive empathy of frehmen students was higher than that of senior students (p<0.05). There was a significant positive correlation between  intercultural sensitivity and  compassion levels of the freshmen and senior students, and a negative correlation between the intercultural sensitivity and the basic empathy levels of the senior students (p<0.05). As a result of the findings, it can be concluded that the intercultural approaches of midwifery students have an effect on the levels of compassion.

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