Background and Aim: The prevalence and increase of suicidal ideation and attempts among young people and students have been one of the concerns of researchers and mental health care professionals. The present study evaluated the psychometric properties of the Persian version of Reasons for Living for Young Adults-II (RFL-YA-II) in a group of Iranian students. Procedure: This study was conducted...

Senate Approved May 10, 2001 Revision to the Policy on the Review of Department Chairs and Directors of Academic Units University Policy Revision to the Policy on the Review of Deans of Academic UnitsUniversity Policy Senate Approved April 9, 2001 Proposed Rules for Combining Graduate and Undergraduate Programs University Policy Transmittal and Abstract Recommendation to Add an Honor Pledge to ...

This study aimed to examine the status of time spent working and sleeping by resident doctors before the introduction of the New Training System for Residents in Japan. A time-budget survey was conducted over a 4-wk period on 102 residents at the Shiga University of Medical Science Hospital, and the response rate among residents was 76% of a total of 2,722 person-days. The average number of hou...

Quantitative study aimed to identify the enterprising tendency of nurses at a university hospital and to relate them with age, length of work in the hospital and conclusion of the nursing course. This cross-sectional quantitative study was developed in 2010. All 60 nurses from the hospital answered the questionnaire General measure of Enterprising Tendency, which contains five categories. In th...

What’s new and changed during last couple of years at CCRMA, with a special focus on The Knoll, our newly renovated building.

BACKGROUND Regardless of worries over clinical research and various initiatives to overcome problems, few quantitative data on the numbers and type of clinical research exist. This article aims to describe the volume and type of clinical research in 2002 and 2007 in Finland. METHODS The research law in Finland requires all medical research to be submitted to regional ethics committees (RECs)....

Background: The present study aimed to investigate and rank the effective success factors for e-learning based on the perspectives of the faculty members, students, and technical specialists of Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Methods: This descriptive survey was conducted using the qualitative-quantitative method. At the first stage of the qualitative approach, 15 specialis...