background: studies show that most students do not have sufficient scientific spirit and motivation and usually do not have the right attitude toward their chosen field of study. the aim of this study was to investigate the attitudes of students in occupational and environmental health at ardabil university of medical sciences, iran, toward their disciplines. materials and methods: this cross-s...

We have read with some surprise the response (1) to our paper titled " Psychological distress among students from five universities " (2). The criticism levelled at the paper is largely unfounded and is a gross misinterpretation of the basic statistics applied. The letter alleges that our Table 1 is misleading. The writers assume that the percentage in cell one of distressed males in the univer...

DURING the 1957 influenza epidemic in Northern Ireland we were able to confirm the clinical diagnosis of influenza in the majority of patients from whom specimens were received. There remained, however, a number of patients with a clinical diagnosis of influenza from whom we could neither recover virus nor demonstrate a rise of antibody in the convalescent specimen of paired sera. We decided, t...

This paper investigates the novice university students’ understanding of the formal definition of “equivalence relations”, especially their understanding of the quantifiers in the definition. Even though the definition is relatively simple and only involves the universal quantifier, we find that half of a class of highly qualified university students are unable to test whether an explicit relat...

In this study, conducted a survey to examine the relationship among sexual attitude, sexual knowledge, optimistic bias of venereal disease and contraceptive practice in university students. The data were collected via structural questionnaires completed by 148 university students located in Cheonan who agreed to participate in this study. There was a statistically significant positive correlati...

background: insufficient sleep is a significant public health issue with adverse medical consequences. sleep disturbances are common among university students and have an effect on this group’s overall health and functioning. the aim of this study was to investigate sleep habits and disorders in a population of university students across lebanon. methods: this was a cross-sectional study carrie...

background: social capital involves a set of norms available in social systems which improves the interaction between people and reduces the costs of interactions and communications. considering the importance of social capital, this research is aimed to study the social capital and factors affecting it among students of tehran university of medical sciences. methods: 400 students were particip...