Aim:The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between health sciences students' attitudes and experiences towards dating violence and their attitudes towards health professional roles in violence. Method: The research was planned as a cross-sectional and descriptive study. In the research, all students who were selected by the purposeful sampling method and who were studying at Faculty of Nursing, Health Sciences and Health services and accepted to participate were included in the study. As a result of the study, 560 students studying in the specified departments were reached. As a data collection form, the Individual Introduction Form, Attitude Scale Towards Dating Violence and Attitude Scale towards Professional Role in Violence were applied to the participants. Results: The total score of the students' attitude scale towards dating violence was 118.81 ± 14.6 (min = 77.00, max = 219), and the total score of the attitude scale about professional roles in violence was 45.60 ± 5.30 (min = 15.00, max = 75.00). It is seen that 15.4% of the students are exposed to violence in their current dating relationships, they are mostly exposed to psychological violence in dating violence (87.2%).In the Pearson correlation analysis performed between the total scores and sub-dimensions of both scales, it was found that there were moderate and weak significant differences (p<0.05).It was determined that the mean scores of the male students' Attitude Scale towards Dating Violence and the scale of attitude towards their professional roles in violence are significantly higher than the mean scores of female students. Conclusion: It was found that students' attitudes towards dating violence also affect their professional attitudes towards violence. As the students' accepted attitudes towards dating violence increase, it is found that their attitudes towards their professional roles in violence take place in the traditional approach. Therefore, the violence education that will be given to the culture-specific and especially male students during undergraduate period, it is anticipated that it will be an effective step in preventing violence as a healthcare professional in the future, and experiencing individual violence.
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