BACKGROUND The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is among the top two regions in the world with the fastest growing HIV epidemic. In this context, risks and vulnerability are high as the epidemic is on the rise with evidence indicating significantly increasing HIV prevalence, new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths. OBJECTIVE The aim of the survey was to assess HIV/AIDS knowledge ...

BACKGROUND Changing eating behaviors might trigger obesity, deficiency, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and reactive eating disorders. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to determine eating attitudes of nursing students in the western Black-Sea region of Turkey as well as to examine the effects of demographic features, self-esteem, body image, income level, and family structure on their eating at...

Interest in nephrology among trainees is waning in the USA. Early perceptions and attitudes to subject matter can be linked to the quality of pre-clinical curricula. We wanted to explore these attitudes in the setting of modern curriculum redesign. We utilized Q methodology to understand first-year medical student attitudes after an innovative kidney physiology curriculum redesign that focuses ...

BACKGROUND Interest in studies of stigma toward patients with mental disorders is growing. Research on the attitudes of medical students toward suicide attempters does not exist; although as medical personnel, they will encounter suicide attempters in emergency rooms. AIMS We aimed to investigate the attitudes of preclinical and clinical medical students toward suicide attempters and to compa...

PURPOSE: This research tested the effectiveness of a widely used mental health education curriculum in changing knowledge and attitudes about mental illness. METHOD: Middle school students from four schools were provided the Breaking the Silence: Teaching the Next Generation About Mental Illness mental health instruction while students from other classes at the same schools received usual class...

The present study used a stratified random sample of undergraduate students at a major Metropolitan University in the Gauteng province of South Africa to examine aspects of the contact hypothesis as originally formulated by Gordon Allport. Specifically, the study sought to examine the effects of two social settings, namely, educational and religious settings on students’ attitudes toward interr...

Recent research in statistical reasoning has focused on the developmental process in students when learning statistical reasoning skills. This study investigates statistical reasoning from the perspective of individual differences. As manifestation of heterogeneity, students’ prior attitudes toward statistics, measured by the extended Survey of Attitudes Toward Statistics (SATS), are used (Scha...

A considerable amount of research has been conducted on factors distinguishing between students who are at risk for dropping out of high school compared to those who graduate. This study examined attitudes regarding compliance and ratings of the importance of classroom rules for interaction among students from schools varying in dropout rates. A survey was distributed to over 200 students at th...

BACKGROUND The underlying goals of the present study were (i) to assess knowledge of and attitudes towards aging in a sample of Portuguese undergraduate students undertaking various degrees in health and welfare subjects, and (ii) to analyze the extent to which knowledge, attitudes and other factors were associated with interest in working with older adults. METHODS The study was cross-sectio...

OBJECTIVE Studies from the USA have identified medical students as a major source of stigmatizing attitudes towards overweight and obese individuals. As data from Europe is scarce, medical students' attitudes were investigated at the University of Leipzig in Leipzig, Germany. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey containing an experimental manipulation consisting of a pair of vignettes depicting an o...