Nursing students' attitudes toward statistics: Effect of a biostatistics course and association with examination performance.

Background: Although statistical knowledge and skills are necessary for promoting evidence-based practice, health sciences students have expressed anxiety about statistics courses, which may hinder their learning of statistical concepts.

Objectives: To evaluate the effects of a biostatistics course on nursing students' attitudes toward statistics and to explore the association between these attitudes and their performance in the course examination.

Design: One-group quasi-experimental pre-test/post-test design.