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Background: Taking care of children during pediatric practice causes significant stress in nursing students. Stress could affect students’ liking of children. Objectives: This descriptive study was aimed at determining the effects of pediatric nursing students’ clinical stress on their liking of children. Methods: The study was conducted with 81 pediatric nursing students. The data were collected before and after clinical practice using a socio-demographic form, a Clinical Stress Questionnaire and the Barnett Liking of Children Scale. Results: The mean scores on the Liking of Children Scale before and after the pediatric clinical practice were, respectively, 87.11 and 87.59. It was found that the Clinical Stress Questionnaire scores rose significantly and that this rise came from higher subscale average scores for the challenge and benefit questions, which measured positive feelings, after the pediatric course. Also, it was determined that the Liking of Children Scale scores significantly increased the challenge and benefit subscale scores of the students. Conclusion: Evaluating the impacts of clinical stress levels on students’ liking of children could lead to more positive experiences for nursing students

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