Objective: This study was conducted to evaluate the knowledge and practices of nursing students about personal hygiene and the effectiveness of personal hygiene training given to the students.

Methods: Bingol University Faculty of Health Sciences Nursing Department of the 2018-2019 academic year, the sample of the study was composed of n=277 students who were in the university during the data collection process and responded to the questionnaire before and after the training.

Results: Two hundred thirty (83.0%) of the students were female and forty-seven (17.0%) were male. When the contribution rates of the training for personal hygiene practices were examined, the first three rates were the item “I change my clothes every day” (35.7%), the item “I use cotton clothes” (30.0%), and the item “I may forget to wash my hands when I come home” (28.9%), which contributed to the nursing students.

Conclusion: It was seen that all students had errors and deficiencies in their attitudes and behaviors toward personal hygiene in the period before training. Positive changes occurred in the post-training period compared with the pre-training period and the participants’ rates of applying personal hygiene increased.