OBJECTIVES A major goal of our study was to identify the associations between lifestyle factors and obesity in adolescents and young adults at risk by surveying students in Inner Mongolia Medical University. A second goal was to determine these factors differed by gender. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Students grade 1-3 in Inner Mongolia Medical University. PARTICIPANTS 5471 grade...

CONFLICT OF INTEREST NONE DECLARED. BACKGROUND By knowing the different students' learning styles, teachers can plan their instruction carefully in ways that are capitalized on student preferences. The current research is done to determine specific learning styles of students. METHOD This cross sectional study was conducted in Al Ahsa College of Medicine from 2011 to 2012. A sample of 518 s...

OBJECTIVE To measure the magnitude of the problem of low-back pain among 10- to 18-year-old Kuwaiti schoolchildren in Hawalli Governorate. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A cross-sectional multistage stratified random sample of 400 schoolchildren (199 males and 201 females) of ages 10-18 years were selected from two junior and two high schools in Hawalli Governorate, Kuwait. Data on age, gender and char...

OBJECTIVE To compare the Internet addiction levels between male and female medical students. METHODS One hundred medical students (male: 50, female: 50) aged 17-30 years were included in a cross-sectional study. A standardized questionnaire was used to assess their Internet addiction level. Additionally, a self-designed questionnaire was used to identify the various purposes of Internet use a...

BACKGROUND In Pakistan there is a dearth of male practitioners in obstetrics and gynaecology (ObG) to cater for emergent needs. The Study was done to explore views of male medical students towards ObG as part of curriculum and to identify the problems during clerkship and its impact on selection of ObG as career. METHODS The study used a 20-item questionnaire-based survey at Shifa College of ...

This article reports the findings of a qualitative study that investigated the factors influencing both the academic and clinical practice performance of undergraduate male nursing students at a regional Australian university. The impetus for the study evolved from the recognition that, despite increasing numbers of males choosing to undertake nursing as a career, attrition by males from nursin...

This study investigated factors predicting the courtship stalking behavior of male college students. Data were collected from 164 male college students who were described as men who wanted to date women who did not want to date them. Participants were from either a four-year university or a two-year college located in A-city, Korea. Courtship stalking behaviors were measured using Sinclair and ...

background: studentship period is a time when most behavioral traits are being created and fixed; this is a special time when students may start smoking. thus in the present research, prevalence of smoking in university students in iran has been evaluated. materials and methods: having extensively explored iranian and international databases (sid, iranmedex, magiran, medlib,irandoc, pubmed, goo...

Unlike most research, which has primarily examined the players’ interest in or attitude toward game-based learning through questionnaires, the purpose of this empirical study is to explore students’ engagement patterns by qualitative observation and sequential analysis to visualize and better understand their game-based learning process. We studied the sequential behaviors of 34 students (17 ma...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the effect that standardized instruction of the male urogenital examination had on the anxiety levels of students and to determine what influence, if any, the gender of the student had on this experience. METHODS One hundred thirty six second year medical students were asked to report their level of anxiety before and after participation in a small group teaching ses...