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Purpose: This study aims to identify the attitudes of nursing students towards age discrimination and the factors affecting it. Tools and Methods: The universe of defining and gradually planned study has been formed by 1,200 students who are studying in the 2016-2017 spring period at the University's Nursing Department. The study did not go to sample selection and the whole universe was planned to be studied. The study was completed with 851 nursing students (the participation rate of 70%) who accepted to participate in the study. The data was collected between 2 May and 1 June 2017 using the Personal Information Form and the Adult Discrimination Attitude Scale. The ethical board has been granted permission to conduct the investigation. In statistical assessment; Student's t test, one-way variance analysis, Tukey test, Shapiro Wilk test, Pearson correlation and Spearman correlation analysis were used.  Results: 31% of the students participating in the study are studying in second class, with an average age of 20.46 ± 1.85, 67.3% women, 97.5% single, 83.5% living in a core family and most of them are mother-in-house (86.8%). The student's age discrimination attitude scale is an overall score average of 80,78±8,67; the average of the age limitation sub-dimensional score is 32,92±4,74, the average of the positive discrimination sub-dimensional score is 29,86±5,62 and the average of the negative discrimination sub-dimensional score is 18,00±3,51. There have been significant differences between the classes that students read, the place of birth and the family type and scale scores. Results: The research found that students who participated in the study had a positive attitude towards the elderly. However, it has been determined that students in the first class, born in the village, with a wide family, have a more positive discrimination score.

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