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Background: This study investigated undergraduate nursing students’ attitude towards research.                                                                                  

Methods: A 15 item pre and post-test questionnaire was administered to undergraduate nursing students to identify the factors that may have effect on their attitude towards research. Participation was involuntary and the study was approved by IRB. Statistical analysis was performed using paired sample t-test and IBM SPSS 23.0.

Results:  Factors that affected students’ attitude towards research included ‘anticipatory anxiety taking a research course’ (p=0.005), ‘glad that research course was over’ (p=.009), and ‘research is a boring field’ (p=.040) were significant at the  = 0.05. However, students recognized the …