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taining four questions: gender, age, course of study and year of study. For the
second part of the questionnaire, we created the Assessment Index of Students’
Palliative Care Knowledge. The questionnaire comprised eight questions. Five
of the questions were related to the perceived assessment of acquired knowl-
edge of palliative care, and three questions were related to determining cur-
rent knowledge of palliative care. The first five questions were rated on a Lik-
ert scale from 1 to 5, and the results range from 5 to 25. A higher score meant
a higher perceived assessment of palliative care knowledge. The three remain-
ing questions were evaluated separately, and were added due to the assumption
that they are essential for determining the respondents’ current knowledge of
palliative care.

Statistical Analysis
The results of the Assessment Index of Students’ Palliative Care Knowledge
were processed using the statistical program IBM SPSS Statistics V23.0. The 25
Kolmogorov–Smirnov test was used to determine normality of distribution.
Differences in numerical variables between two independent groups were test-
ed using the Mann–Whitney U test. The significance level was set at α=0.05.
The results of the three questions (gender, age, year of study) that were add-
ed because of the assumption that they are important for determining the re-
spondents’ current knowledge of palliative care were presented according to
the percentage of answers given by the respondents. evaluation of student knowledge of palliative care

Results

Results of Determining Current Knowledge of Palliative care

Table 4. The respondents’ results when asked where they learned
about palliative care.

Proposed responses to the question: PT OT
N (%) N (%)
in secondary school 52 (36.96) 43 (31.62)
at university 37 (28.26) 69 (50.73)
from friends or family 34 (23.91) 17 (12.50)
through the media 10 (7.25) 4 (2.94)
through social media 1 (0.72) 3 (2.21)
other 4(2.90) 0 (0)
PT – physiotherapy group; OT – occupational therapy group; N (%) – number of respondents
(percentage of respondents)
When asked where they learned about palliative care, 69 respondents of the
OT group (50.73%) confirmed that they learned about the existence of pallia-
tive care at university and 37 respondents of the PT group (28.26%) confirmed
the same. The respondents’ most common response to the question Where did