An Investigation Into the Effects of Educational Gains of Vocational School of Health Students on Their Environmental Attitudes

This study was carried out in order to investigate the environmental attitudes of final year students in Vocational School of Health Services, which trains intermediate staff for health institutes. The primary aim of the study was to determine whether the environmental education they had previously received from the family or school changed in any way after receiving vocational training in the Vocational School of Health Services. In the study, an attitude questionnaire on environment was applied to the first and final year students in the vocational school and the question whether the students' environmental attitudes changed in any way after the vocational training they received in Vocational School of Health Services was investigated. The results reveal that the final year students are more sensitive to the environment in comparison with the first year students (P<0.01), which might be interpreted as a positive change of environmental attitudes caused by the vocational training received at this school.