OBJECTIVE This study aimed to examine the effects of e-health education content on the attitude of undergraduate health science students towards the efficiency of health ICT in healthcare provision. METHODS A cross-sectional survey design was used. Participants were Health Sciences students attending The University of Sydney. Students were divided into three groups: junior students enrolled i...

Reframing the Attitude-Behavior Debate: The Case of Meat-Abstinence in Vegetarian Student Cooperatives

dadresanfar b 1 ehsani m 2 vallaee n 3 khalilak z #1   1- assistant professor, endodontic dept, islamic azad university, dental branch, tehran, iran   2-dentist   3- faculty member of islamic azad university, dental branch   corresponding author: khalilak z: endodontic dept, no 4 , 10th neyestan ave, pasdaran. tehran iran   tel: 0 21 22564571-3 email: dr.z.khalilak@ gmail.com  background and ai...

BACKGROUND In the education of professionals in psychiatry, one challenge is to provide clinical placements with opportunities for students to interact and have direct contact with patients. The aim of this study was to explore Swedish psychiatric patients' perspectives on student participation in their care. METHOD In a cross-sectional survey design, 655 adult psychiatric patients at a unive...

Mobile technology opens the door for a new kind of learning called here and now learning that occurs when learners have access to information anytime and anywhere to perform authentic activities in the context of their learning. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of here and now mobile learning on student achievement and attitude. The research questions addressed were (1) ...

This quasi-experimental mixed methods study examined the use of ereaders during guided reading instruction and its impact on 5th grade students’ reading motivation, attitude toward reading, and reading comprehension. For 10 weeks, 19 students received guided reading instruction by means of the traditional paper/text format, while 16 students received guided reading instruction by means of e-rea...

Spyware has been identified as one of the emerging and growing threats to organizations. Because the Internet is an essential component of the student’s education experience, it is important to discern if our students are at risk and how to mitigate potential negative consequences. As a result, this paper describes spyware issues and empirically explores spyware incidence and student attitude. ...