BACKGROUNDAccording to world statistics, majority of women is subjected to multiple instances of domestic violence in their lifetime. According to the results of some studies, awareness and attitude towards violence against women in different groups of society are different. Therefore, this issue should be studied in different groups, especially medical personnel. International law and national law should be studied. Nurses are the first link in the chain of communication for identifying and helping the victims of domestic violence. Educating this group is therefore the most crucial step in the prevention and reduction of instances of domestic violence against women. The present study examines the effect of, education on the legal aspects of domestic violence against women through social networks, on the awareness and attitude of nursing students. METHODSA pre-post intervention design was used. Nursing students (n=110) attended to the research. Of these, 98 completed the pre-post researcher-made questionnaire. Data was analysed in SPSS-25 at the significance level of p= 0.05. RESULTSUsing the Wilcoxon signed-rank test, all post intervention scores were significantly higher than pre intervention scores. Awareness scores increased from a pre-training mean of 47.45 to 59.53 (z= -8.418, p < 0.05) and attitude scores increased from 75.26 to 88.66 (z= -8.527, p < 0.05). CONCLUSIONSTraining on the legal aspects of domestic violence against women effectively improved nursing students' awareness and attitude.