background: today’s nursing graduates value ability to creatively solve problems and make decisions, as these skills assist hem with recognizing and evaluating situations that require prompt attention. this study aimed to determine and compare nursing student’s perceived levels of own problem solving skills in various years of their 4-year program. methods: this is a cross-sectional study. all ...

over the past decade, there have been several studies showing autobiographical memory retrieval and problem‑solving deficits in depressed population. the present study aimed to first to examine the roles of autobiographical memory specificity and problemsolving effectiveness in iranian depressed people with or without suicide ideation and secondly, to test the correlations between autobiographi...

the purpose of this study was to examine the effect of coping stress skills training on stress and problem solving skill in taleghani dormitory students in kermanshah medical sciences university. the research method is experimental and has been done with pre-test, post-test and control group. research tools were harry inventory (2005) and endler and parker coping scale of stressful situation (1...

nowadays, improvement of thinking skills of students is one of the universally supported aims in the majority of medical schools. this study aims to design longitudinal theme of reasoning, problem-solving and decision-making into the undergraduate medical curriculum at tehran university of medical sciences (tums). a participatory approach was applied to design the curriculum during 2009-2011. t...

background: clinical reasoning process leads clinician to get purposeful steps from signs and symptoms toward diagnosis and treatment. this research intends to investigate the effect of teaching clinical reasoning on problem-solving skills of medical students.   methods: this research is a semi-experimental study. nineteen medical student of the pediatric ward as case group participated in a tw...

introduction: mental sets are clues which are already coded and stored in memory, and retrieved when needed. the present study investigated the role of mental sets in solving anagram problems. methods: the design of this study is an experimental with repeated measurement design. the participants were 20 ma students and graduates chosen through voluntary sampling. each of them were required to u...