assessment of communication skills level among medical college students: verbal, listening, and feedback skills     barati m [1] , moeini b [2] *, samavati a [3] , salehi o [4]     received: 23 oct, 2011 accepted: 19 jan, 2012     abstract   background & aims: communication skills are among the most important characteristics that a medical student requires. since, communications skills have not...

In this study we consider the health implications of the sequencing of a college degree vis-à-vis familial roles during the transition to adulthood. We hypothesize that people who earned a college degree before assuming familial roles will have better health than people who earned a college degree afterwards. To test this hypothesis, we focus on obesity and use data from the National Longitudin...

Objective: The present study was designed to examine the college student's mental health predication model based on religious faith mediated by happiness, ambivalent attachment style and ‎locus of control. Methods: The method of study was correlational.  The statistical population included all college students of the Shiraz University in the academic year of 2013-2014.  The sample included 240...

The purpose of this article is to profile identified stressors, physical and psychological health issues that affect first-year campus college students as they transition from high school to college. The Health Behaviors, Self-Rated Health and Quality of Life (QOL) questionnaire was administered to 514 university college students. Results from this study determined that there were significant d...

a b c d NM Chanzu *, W Mwanda , J Oyugi and O Anzala Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases, College of Health Sciences, P.O. Box 19676-00200, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases, College of Health Sciences, P.O. Box 19676-00200, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya Department of Medical Microbiology, College of Health Sciences, P.O. Box 1...

University College London, Research Department of Infection and Population Health, UCL Royal Free Campus, London NW3 2PF, UK; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, UK; Imperial College Business School and the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, UK; Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA; Ce...

Anxiety and depression have been documented as top mental health issues that impede college students’ academic performance National Alliance on Mental Illness [NAMI] [1]; Pedrelli, Nyer, Yeung, Zulauf, and Wilens, [2]. More than 80% of college students have felt overwhelmed by college-related tasks and more than 50% have felt extremely anxious about their academic struggles in the past year. Al...

Authors’ current positions and affiliations 1) Assistant Professor, CCRF Professorship in Spine Biomechanics and Human Neurophysiology, College of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba 2) Assistant Professor, Research Department, New York Chiropractic College 3) Scientific Director, Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis, Canadian Institutes of H...