Abstract Objective: Drug use during pregnancy is a common problem in clinical practice. Health care professionals should be trained with up-to-date information on this issue. The use of medication during pregnancy can be achieved by accurate diagnosis, a careful history, physical examination and well-planned laboratory research. In pharmaceutical applications, the knowledge of the healthcare providers about the procedure can prevent the damaging of the mother and the baby, and this will prevent the occurrence of ethical problems.
Methods: The research was conducted on the students who were attended at School of Health, Department of Midwifery in the spring semester of the 2017-2018 academic year at Kütahya Dumlupınar University. The questionnaire consists of 25 questions, including yes, no and do not know answers to the questions, to evaluate the knowledge, attitude and ethical awareness of the students in rational drug use during use education in pregnancy.
Results: When conducting a clinical research in the study group was questioned, the correct response rate was found to be 48.6% before the training and 98.6% after the training (p = 0.000).
The rate of responding correctly to category X in pregnancy is dangerous was found to be 18.4% before the training and 100% after the training (p = 0.000). The rate of expressing category X as I do not know was found to be 77% before the training.
Conclusion: It is important that the groups that will conduct research in drug research should be educated. In this study, by using pre- and post-survey questionnaires, awareness towards drug use during pregnancy and ethics were evaluated through the training held for midwifery students and it was aimed to raise awareness.
Keywords Drug use, Education, Pregnancy.