Background:Students are the main customers of the universities. Thus, their perceptions and expectations of the educational quality is of great importance in planning for quality improvement. This study is aimed on evaluating the quality of clinical education in hospitals affiliated with Kerman University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This is a descriptive-analytical study. Three hundred and t...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the self-reported sleep and napping behaviour of Australian university students and the relationship between napping and daytime functioning. A sample of 280 university first-year psychology students (median age  = 19.00 years) completed a 6-item napping behaviour questionnaire, a 12-item Daytime Feelings and Functioning Scale, the Pittsburg Sleep Quali...

To determine the underlying factor structure of the Japanese version of the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI-J), a principal components analysis was performed on data from 312 Japanese undergraduate students who reported growth due to their most traumatic event within the last 5 years. Results showed the PTGI-J has high internal consistency and, of the original five factors reported by Tede...

Background: Health-promoting lifestyles of university students are strongly related to their current and subsequent health status. Low rates of health-promoting lifestyles among university students are still reported in literature. However, few studies in Jordan have examined health-promoting behaviors among university students. Objectives: This study was aimed to assess health-promoting lifest...

Introduction This paper discusses the role of virtual university students' motivational strategies for learning. The paper is based on a study, which is part of a larger IQ-FORM research project (WWW-site http://www.edu.helsinki.fi/iqform/). First is presented the aim and the theoretical background of IQ FORM research project and then is introduced theoretical framework for motivational strateg...

Online learning has great potential to provide students with meaningful learning (Anderson, 1996), however online learning like any other form of structured learning requires careful design, management and facilitation. The world of virtual education with its variety of learning environments built on the basis of students remote from any physical classroom, promotes a need to establish systems ...

INTRODUCTION Patients with leprosy may be affected psychologically and socially by the negative attitude of society toward leprosy, caused by widespread ignorance and prevailing stereotypes surrounding the disease. This study aimed to determine the knowledge and attitudes toward leprosy among students at the University of Guadalajara. METHODOLOGY This descriptive cross-sectional study include...