Abdolghani Abdollahimohammad; Mohammadreza Firouzkouhi
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Background: Water pipe tobacco smoking is used as a traditional way of smoking, but its ascending trend and increasing consumption has become a global phenomenon, which has been associated with increased consumption of fruity or flavored tobaccos. Given the students’ increasing tendency in this ...
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Background: Water pipe tobacco smoking is used as a traditional way of smoking, but its ascending trend and increasing consumption has become a global phenomenon, which has been associated with increased consumption of fruity or flavored tobaccos. Given the students’ increasing tendency in this regard, this study aimed to explore the medical students’ tendency toward using waterpipe tobacco smoking.Methods: This is a qualitative study using a semi-structured interview with 16 medical students in Southeastern Iran (Zabol) from January to May 2020. The data were analyzed using a thematic analysis approach.Results: Data analysis led to the extraction of 4 themes of “cultural/ family roots”, “individual roots”, “attraction of tobacco flavor and water pipe”, and “misconception about health risks of water pipe tobacco smoking”.Conclusion: Waterpipe tobacco smoking has increased among students for leisure and entertainment. Given that waterpipe tobacco smoking is the basis for entering various opioid addictions and cigarettes, it needs more attention to students from the academic side of principals and families. It is recommended that national and academic authorities should consider the issues that attract the students toward water pipe tobacco smoking.
Aida Rastegarian; Marzieh Davoodi; Hossein Molavi Vardanjani; Malihe Sousani Tavabe; Mousa Ghelichi-Ghojogh; Alireza Salehi
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Background: Medical students are exposed to high risk mental health disorders. Owing to the higher probability of exposure to the mentioned risk factors among dorm-resident students and senior students, the present study was conducted to explore mental health disorder and its relationship with higher ...
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Background: Medical students are exposed to high risk mental health disorders. Owing to the higher probability of exposure to the mentioned risk factors among dorm-resident students and senior students, the present study was conducted to explore mental health disorder and its relationship with higher academic year and dorm residence, amongthe medical students of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences.Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted among 270 medical students in 2019. A multi-stage random sampling was applied. A standardized self-administered questionnaire, which comprised of demographic variables and General Health Questionnaire-28, was used.Results: The mean age of the participants was 22.52±2.26 years. About 166 individuals (61.5%, CI 95%: 55.69, 67.30) showed symptoms of mental health disorders, and anxiety was the most common mental disorder with a prevalence of 16.7% in medical students. There were significant relationships between mental health and higher age (P=0.001), clinical phase students (P<0.001), single students (P=0.044), dorm residence (P<0.001), and those in poor economic condition (P=0.047).Conclusion: The chance of developing mental health disorders in dormitory students and in clinical phase students was 2.48 (CI 95%: 1.36, 4.53) and 2.97 (CI 95%: 2.12, 4.15) times higher than in non-dormitory and basic phase students, respectively. Due to the higher prevalence of mental health disorders among medical students compared to the general population, interventions should be done at the university level to promote the students’ mental health, especially clinical and dormitory students. In addition, policymakers should design and implement a comprehensive student mental health care program nationally.
Padideh Daneii; Vida Sarmadi; Negin Mahmoudi; Amir Kian Moaveni; Fatemeh Mohammad Alizadeh; Sina Neshat; Armindokht Shahsanaee
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Background : Academic failure is one of the most important issues for both family and students. It has many adverse consequences on students' mental health. Therefore, understanding the factors that influence academic achievement can help reduce academic failure and thus improve students' physical, mental, ...
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Background : Academic failure is one of the most important issues for both family and students. It has many adverse consequences on students' mental health. Therefore, understanding the factors that influence academic achievement can help reduce academic failure and thus improve students' physical, mental, and educational status. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between students' attributional styles and academic achievement in medical students at Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. Methods: The present study has a cross-sectional and descriptive-analytical design. Cronbach's alpha coefficient confirmed the reliability of the ASQ (Attributional Styles Questionnaire) questionnaire for each subscale . The sampling method in this study was census and consisted of 76 First- and Seven- Semester medical students at Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. In this study, Attributional Styles Questionnaire (ASQ) was used to measure attributional styles. Descriptive statistics and independent sample t-test were used through SPSS software version 25 for data analysis. Results: The results showed there is a significant relationship between optimistic and pessimistic attributions and academic achievement. In terms of the overall score of the questionnaire, positive and negative attributions were significantly higher in medical students with higher grade point averages than students with lower grade point averages and academic probation (P <0.05). Conclusion: It can be concluded that there is a significant relationship between the medical students’ attribution styles at Isfahan University of Medical Sciences and their academic achievement.
sedigheh Ebrahimi; Vahid Reza Zarei
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Introduction: Mistreatment with medical students is a global phenomenon, which has been proved in several studies. The aim of this study is to investigate the extent of mistreatment that the medical students experience in educational hospitals of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This cross-sectional ...
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Introduction: Mistreatment with medical students is a global phenomenon, which has been proved in several studies. The aim of this study is to investigate the extent of mistreatment that the medical students experience in educational hospitals of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out using descriptive-analytical method. All medical students were studied in educational hospitals of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences by census method. A questionnaire with 26 questions was used to collect data on demographic information, experience of mistreatment and observation of mistreatment towards the other students and open-ended questions. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 18 software. Results: The results of the study showed that 86.3% of the students experienced at least one kind of mistreatment during the previous year; among these misbehaved students 57.5% were female and 42.5% were male. The most cases of mistreatment were verbal mistreatment (95.1%) and abuse of authority (76.2%). The highest number of mistreatment has taken place in obstetrics and gynecology(OB-GYN) departments (60.3%) and in internal departments (49.2%), respectively; most of the individuals who misbehaved toward the students were residents (73%),nurses (66.7%), and interns (60.3). Conclusion: Regarding the high prevalence of mistreatment against medical students, there is a need for a plan for training communication skills and more support for students in this field.
Leila Bazrafkan; Farangis Torki; Tayebeh Rakhshani
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Introduction: Emotional intelligence is considered as one of the significant aspects of person-environment adaptation and one of the important factors of individual differences. As students of each society are the human resources and the constructors of its future, and their physical and mental health ...
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Introduction: Emotional intelligence is considered as one of the significant aspects of person-environment adaptation and one of the important factors of individual differences. As students of each society are the human resources and the constructors of its future, and their physical and mental health is of great importance, the present study aimed to compare emotional intelligence in medical and non-medical students of Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 483 students of Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences who were selected through stratified sampling in 2018. The data collection tool was the Goleman's standardized emotional intelligence questionnaire. Chi-square and independent t-test were used for statistical data analysis by SPSS version 20. The significance level was considered 0.05 in all the tests. Results: The mean and standard deviation of emotional intelligence in medical and non-medical students were 81.79 ± 8.45 and 84.03 ± 7.71, respectively. The independent t-test showed that there was a significant difference between the mean score of emotional intelligence and the field of study (P = 0.003). Conclusion: The results of this study showed that the mean score of emotional intelligence in non-medical students was higher than that of medical students. Hence, it is suggested that educational managers of universities should have special financial investments in emotional self-awareness, while holding training courses and using human resource educators for conducting emotional intelligence promotion workshops.
Mehrdad Askarian; Zahra Dehghani; Mina Danaei; Veda Vakili
Volume 1, Issue 2 , October 2013, , Pages 77-82
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Background: Physicians are one of the most important groups directly associated with public health and their health related lifestyle has a significant impact on their patient’s behaviors. Several studies showed that the majority of medical students did not have appropriate and healthy behaviors. The ...
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Background: Physicians are one of the most important groups directly associated with public health and their health related lifestyle has a significant impact on their patient’s behaviors. Several studies showed that the majority of medical students did not have appropriate and healthy behaviors. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of risky lifestyle knowledge and behaviors among Shiraz medical students.Methods: This cross-sectional survey was conducted in 2011. Using a stratified random sampling method, 400 medical students were selected to fill in the questionnaires. The questionnaire contained 33 questions including demographic data, healthy lifestyle knowledge and behavior (including physical activity, fruit and vegetable consumption, water drinking, etc), perception of stress and student’s health information resource. The association between demographic factors and participants’ knowledge, practice and stress score was determined. The correlation between the participants’ knowledge and behavior scores was calculated.Results: The mean knowledge and attitude scores were 2.8 and 3.6, respectively. In 40% of knowledge and 80% of practice questions, the percentage of the correct answer was below 50%. There was a significant correlation between the participants’ knowledge and behavior scores (P<0.05).Conclusion: This study raises the voice of concern with medical students’ knowledge and behavior on healthy lifestyle measures. There is a need for re-thinking, planning and reviewing these concepts of pure reason which is essential in their future professional career. Health considerations, health surveillance and care systems which are based on evidence, reasonability and rationality still have to be paramount.