Seyhan ÇITLIK SARITAŞ, Ebru GÜL, Gürkan ÖZDEN, Seher ÇEVİK

The information literacy levels of nursing students who take the course on information techniques

Aim: This study was conducted with the purpose of determining the information literacy levels of nursing students who take thecourse on information techniques in nursing and those who do not.Material and Methods: This descriptive study was conducted. The population of the study consisted of the 1st and 2nd year studentsof a school of nursing located in Eastern Turkey. The study was completed with 265 students. A personal information form and aninformation literacy scale were used to collect the data.Results: In the study, it was found that the mean information literacy scores of the participants who took the course on informationtechniques in nursing and those who did not were respectively 3.92±0.6 and 3.41±0.6, and the difference between the groups wasstatistically significant (p

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