This study investigates how students develop their understanding of chemical representations with the aid of a visualizing tool, eChem, that allows them to build molecular models and view multiple representations simultaneously. Multiple sources of data were collected with the participation of 71 eleventh graders in a high school over a six-week period. The results of the preand post-tests show...

OBJECTIVES This study compared the personality traits of entry-level occupational therapy students before and after their participation in 2 years of academic and clinical education in order to examine the change of traits in their professional personality profile. METHOD Forty-nine occupational therapy students completed the 18 scales of the California Psychological Inventory during their fi...

Title of Document: THE EFFECT OF LIVING-LEARNING PROGRAM PARTICIPATION ON COLLEGE STUDENTS’ MENTAL HEALTH John E. Fink, Master of Arts, 2012 Directed By: Dr. Mary L. Hummel, Affiliate Faculty Member Department of Counseling and Personnel Services This thesis used Astin’s (1993) I-E-O framework to explore how participation in a living-learning program as well as other college environments affect...

Objective: There is a likelihood of risky behaviors such as drug abuse, risky sexual behavior, and adaptability issues in young ages. The present study aimed at investigating the prevalence of risky behaviors among students of Dezful University of Medical Sciences in 2014. Method: This was a descriptive-analytical cross sectional study, with a random sampling approach. Scale of measuring risky ...

BACKGROUND Lifestyle behaviours are usually formed during youth or young adulthood which makes college students a particularly vulnerable group that easily can adopt unhealthy lifestyle behaviour. AIM The aim of this cross-sectional study was to explore the influence of socio-demographic factors on Swedish university students' lifestyle behaviours and self-rated health. METHOD Data were col...

Background: Poor sleep among college students is a major, growing problem associated with lower academic performance, higher rates of health and emotional problems, and development of chronic sleep disorders. Purpose: Though previous studies have focused on individual colleges, our study purpose was to reveal the association of behaviors and function to sleep quality in a large sample of studen...

BACKGROUND So far, studies investigating Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) training in medical students are conducted in self-selected, pre-clinical samples, with modest response rates without collecting data on non-participants. This study first examines interest and participation rates of students starting their clinical clerkships. Second, it compares students interested in a mindful...

introduction. the changes trend from traditional to community oriented medical education necessitates that the social medicine courses be more effective and presented at an appropriate time. the object of this study is the comparison between medical physiopathology and stager students’ competency in practical social medicine course. methods. all the medical students who entered the health appre...