Oliver Laugisch, Marina C Ruppert-Jungck, Thorsten M Auschill, Sigrun Eick, Anton Sculean, Christian Heumann, Lars Timmermann, David J Pedrosa, Carsten Eggers, Nicole B Arweiler
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negative attitudes towards disability amongst healthcare professionals endanger social inclusion people disabilities pwd study aimed investigate attitude undergraduate healthcare students various disciplines towards pwd including specific aspects attitude assessed attitudes university students including physiotherapy speech therapy nursing social work medical students greek interaction disabled person scale idps survey data analysed using twostep clustering technique four hundredeighty undergraduate healthcare students 214 53 yearsold 135 males 345 females recruited twostep cluster analysis identified three homogenous subgroups labelled least positive attitude 423 moderately positive attitude 269 positive attitude 308 groups main differences healthcare students attitudes three distinct groups appeared feelings sympathy fear susceptibility towards disability suggesting aspects attitude needed primarily addressed results also revealed females higher semesteryear studies completed clinical module pwd frequent contact pwd related positive attitudes taking account majority healthcare students sample yielded least moderately positive attitudes towards pwd actions taken promoting positive attitudes towards disability social model teaching increase students awareness pwd skills work people pwd teaching modules focussing positive experiences reminding students benefits positive attitudes towards pwd well promoting ways increase contact healthcare students pwd teaching cooperation organisations pwd finding alternative clinical placements pwd beneficial promoting positive attitudes towards disability