INTRODUCTION Organ transplantation in Libya depends exclusively on donations from live relatives. This limitation increases mortality and prolongs the patients' suffering and waiting time. OBJECTIVES The aims of this study were to explore willingness to donate organs after death and to identify the reasons for refusal. METHODS A population-based crosssectional study was conducted from April...

Background: It is assumed that religion shapes everyday beliefs and activities of individuals including that of youths. The problem is that most times, some religious groups out of ignorance exclude their members from associating themselves with HIV preventive programmes. The need to use religious beliefs to enhance prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections among youths in the...

Religious and sociocultural beliefs influence the nature of treatment and care received by people with epilepsy. Many communities in Africa and other developing nations believe that epilepsy results from evil spirits, and thus, treatment should be through the use of herbaceous plants from traditional doctors and religious leadership. Community-based cross-sectional study designs were used to as...

In a recent issue of the IJOTM, there was a special attention to organ donation. In one study, Chakradhar and colleagues, showed an insufficient level of positive attitude and practice among undergraduate dental students in Heyderabad, India [1]. In another article, Oluyombo, et. al., indicated disparity of knowledge and willingness regarding organ donation among health care workers in SouthWes...

the main purpose of this research is to explain the elements and characteristics of religious education curriculum based on the task-oriented approach. to achieve this purpose, frankena`s model for analyzing a normative philosophy; deductive method was used. based on the results, the task-oriented the ultimate goal of religious education and then ten target interface for religious education wer...

BACKGROUND Female genital mutilation (FGM) or female circumcision is the removal of variable amounts of tissue from the female external genitalia. It is practised all over the world on very young girls. This study was conducted in Sudan where FGM is a criminal offence and not a religious dictate. We assessed the knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions of this practice among Khartoum university st...

BACKGROUND This study examined attitudes towards and knowledge about abortion among undergraduate students doing eleven different subjects. The differences in attitudes and knowledge about abortion according to gender, religious and political affiliation, religiosity, sexual orientation, number of sex partners and previous sexual experience were also considered. METHOD 1,025 undergraduate stu...

BACKGROUND Serious games have the potential to teach complex cognitive skills in an engaging way, at relatively low costs. Their flexibility in use and scalability makes them an attractive learning tool, but more research is needed on the effectiveness of serious games compared to more traditional formats such e-modules. We investigated whether undergraduate medical students developed better kn...

The institutions of higher learning have between their main missions the one to compile, to process, to storage, to generate, to transmit and to apply knowledge to their students and to the society as a whole. Prestige, image, sustainability, competitiveness, quality of the different university services, depends on the degree of the knowledge management (K.M .) that it is made. The present pape...