PURPOSE To assess the relationships of cognitive and noncognitive performance predictors to medical student preclinical and clinical performance indicators across medical school years 1 to 3 and to evaluate the association of psychological health/wellness factors with performance. METHOD In 2010, the authors conducted a cross-sectional, correlational, retrospective study of all 175 students a...

ACADEMIC STRESS, TEST ANXIETY, AND PERFORMANCE IN A CHINESE HIGH SCHOOL SAMPLE: THE MODERATING EFFECTS OF COPING STRATEGIES AND PERCEIVED SOCIAL SUPPORT by Juan “Tulip” Xiao Test taking can produce elevated stress and anxiety, with subsequent negative influences on test performance. This has been a focus of prior research. However, only a few studies have explored how coping strategies and perc...

  Objective: Dental profession is associated with a high level of stress experienced by clinicians in private practice as well as students and instructors in dental school environment. The purpose of this study was to detect the main stressors in dental students of School of dentistry, Babol University of Medical Sciences in 2011-2012.   Methods: In this descriptive, analytical study, data were...

Mathematics anxiety (MA) and mathematics motivation (MM) are important multi-dimensional non-cognitive factors in mathematics learning. While the negative relation between global MA and MM is well replicated, the relations between specific dimensions of MA and MM are largely unexplored. The present study utilized latent profile analysis to explore profiles of various aspects of MA (including le...

Methods: A group of patients who had cervical or lumbar surgery with preoperative discrepancies between presenting exam and radiological imagery underwent selective nerve root injections prior to surgery. Strict criteria were adhered to in performing the SNIs, including use of fluoroscopy with contrast, nerve stimulation, concordance of stimulation and limited volume of local anesthetic. The SN...