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This study aimed to investigate the attitude of undergraduate healthcare students of various disciplines towards PwD, including specific aspects of their attitude.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>We assessed the attitudes of university students, including physiotherapy, speech therapy, nursing, social work and medical students, through the Greek Interaction with Disabled Person Scale (IDPS) in a survey. Data were analysed using a two\u2010step clustering technique.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Four hundred\u2010eighty undergraduate healthcare students (21.4\u00a0\u00b1\u00a05.3 years\u2010old; 135 males, 345 females) were recruited. Two\u2010step cluster analysis identified three homogenous subgroups labelled <jats:italic>Least positive attitude<\/jats:italic> (42.3%), <jats:italic>Moderately positive attitude<\/jats:italic> (26.9%), and <jats:italic>Most positive attitude<\/jats:italic> (30.8%) groups. \u03a4he main differences in healthcare students' attitudes between the three distinct groups appeared to be in feelings of sympathy, fear and susceptibility towards disability, suggesting that these aspects of attitude needed to be primarily addressed. Results also revealed that females, being in higher semester\/year of studies, having completed a clinical module with PwD and having frequent contact with PwD were related to more positive attitudes.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Taking into account that the majority of the healthcare students' sample yielded least and moderately positive attitudes, towards PwD, further actions should be taken for promoting more positive attitudes towards disability. A social model in teaching to increase student's awareness of PwD and skills to work with these people, having PwD themselves teaching such modules, focussing on positive experiences and reminding the students of the benefits of having positive attitudes towards PwD, as well as promoting ways to increase the contact of healthcare students with PwD (such as teaching in co\u2010operation with organisations of PwD or finding alternative clinical placements with PwD), can be beneficial in promoting more positive attitudes towards disability.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1002\/pri.2032","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,18]],"date-time":"2023-07-18T16:11:26Z","timestamp":1689696686000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Attitudes towards people with disabilities across different healthcare undergraduate students: A cluster analysis approach"],"prefix":"10.1002","volume":"28","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3611-8054","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Theofani A.","family":"Bania","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physiotherapy University of Patras  Rio Greece"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Maria","family":"Gianniki","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physiotherapy University of Patras  Rio Greece"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1593-2041","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Garyfalia","family":"Charitaki","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Humanities Hellenic Open University  Patras Greece"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sofia","family":"Giannakoudi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physiotherapy University of Patras  Rio Greece"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Velaoras I.","family":"Andreas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medicine University of Patras  Patras Greece"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Charikleia","family":"Farantou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physiotherapy University of Patras  Rio Greece"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Velaora I.","family":"Aliki","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Business Administration University of Piraeus  Piraeus Greece"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Evdokia A.","family":"Billis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physiotherapy University of Patras  Rio Greece"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_8_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s11423\u2010012\u20109235\u20108"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_3_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/09638288.2019.1643420"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_4_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/09638288.2020.1850890"},{"issue":"1","key":"e_1_2_8_5_1","first-page":"109","article-title":"Disability and occupational incorporation","volume":"6","author":"Drosos N.","year":"2020","journal-title":"EOS"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_6_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/0956-716X(93)90030-V"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_7_1","volume-title":"Handbook of neuropsychology","author":"Fletcher J. 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