oral health as an essential indicator of public health significantly affects public health. adequate knowledge, attitude and practice can effectively prevent many oral diseases. therefore, this study examines students’ knowledge, attitude and practice toward oral health. the study used a descriptive – analytical method and immediate sample available for gathering data. this study included the v...

background and aim:in recent years, fast-food consumption has increased significantly among societies which is a consequence of many factors for example lifestyle changes. undoubtedly knowledge and attitude of consumers are factors can influence on fast food consumption by individuals. so, goal of this research is study of knowledge and attitude of medical students about fast food consumption. ...

Results: Students included in study were of 16-29 years age group (mean age 18.6±3.2 years), 225 (37.5%) had adequate knowledge about emergency contraceptive pills, statistically significant difference in knowledge is seen among students who got knowledge from literary sources and health personnel (p<0.05). Majority of the science stream students (50%) were having adequate knowledge followed by...

This study was carried out to ascertain the attitude of lecturers in Nigerian universities towards students’ evaluation of their teaching effectiveness. Descriptive survey was employed in carrying out the study. The population comprised all lecturers in three universities in south-south Nigeria. Stratified random sampling technique was used to draw a sample of five hundred and fifty lecturers o...

BACKGROUND Phramongkutklao College of Medicine is a military medical school and also a health promotion school. As a result, encouraging these medical students to have good attitude toward exercise is considered an important mission for the college. OBJECTIVES To study the attitudes of medical students at Phramongkutklao College of Medicine about exercise for health promotion. MATERIAL AND ...

This study assessed the poverty-related attitudes of pre-clinical medical students (first and second years) versus clinical medical students (third and fourth years). First through fourth year medical students voluntarily completed the Attitude Towards Poverty scale. First and second year students were classified together in the preclinical group and third and fourth year students together in t...

Background Stigmatizing attitudes to mental illness, and especially schizophrenia, are not limited to the general population but are also common among health professionals. Health professionals are in a position to model health related attitudes both in the general public and patients. Medical students are an interesting group to focus upon, since they are future health professionals and correc...

BACKGROUND Advances in healthcare such as virtual dental implant planning have the capacity to result in greater accuracy, speed, and efficiencies leading to improvement in patient care. It has been suggested that the acceptance of new technology is influenced by a variety of factors including individual differences, social and situational influences, user beliefs, and user attitudes. Despite t...

BACKGROUND To develop nursing education and promote nursing strategies, there is a need for a staff with positive attitude. The present study was conducted to compare the attitudes among clinical nurses and nursing students toward the nursing profession. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this descriptive- analytical study 313 clinical nurses and 81 nursing students (total n = 394) of Tehran, Iran, wer...

OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to determine the attitudes of university students studying in different fields toward discrimination of the elderly. METHODS This descriptive study was conducted with students who were still studying in the 2015-2016 period. A sample size of 416 students was determined by the stratified sampling method, and students were selected by simple random sampling. D...