The Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire (later known as The Crown Crisp Experiential Index) was used on medical students of the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. It was found that Year II medical students scored the highest; the female students scored higher than male students in all classes. The female students were more anxious, phobic, obsessional, hypochondriacal and depressive tha...

Dear Editor, The Singapore Medical Council recommends that a female chaperone be present when male doctors examine female patients to protect patients’ rights to dignity and privacy, and doctors from accusations of molestation. In some instances, female doctors examining patients without chaperones may also be subjected to harassment by male patients. The chaperoning of medical students during ...

BACKGROUND Using condoms consistently could prevent unintended pregnancy among young people. This study highlights multiple domains of influence on condom use among male college students in China, including knowledge, attitudes, health services utility on condom use and reproductive health information sources. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS To identify factors associated with condom use in Chi...

Although several cross-sectional surveys have shown that certain traits such as extraversion and neuroticism are related to emotion regulation, few studies have explored the nature of this relationship. The present study tried to explore the longitudinal relation between traits and emotion regulation strategies. The Interpersonal Self-Support Scale for Middle School Students (ISSS-MSS) and the ...

The purpose of this study was to determine the recognition of body image and food behavior factors according to the BMI. The subjects of this study were 242 7th grade students resided in San Francisco area. The degree of recognition for self-estimated physique of subjects by gender and by race showed no significant differences by gender but significant differences by race, showing that 20.0% wa...

This clickable gif image shows an explicative example of Simpson's Paradox. Though the percentage of male students who obtained the scholarship for maths is higher than the percentage of female students who obtained that scholarship, and the percentage of male students who obtained the scholarship for physics is higher than the percentage of female students who obtained that scholarship, the pe...

In order to find out the connected items of smoking habit and to consider its countermeasures of smoking, a questionnaire survey was carried out in July 1985 to 1451 1stand 2ndgrade college or university students. The percentages of students who were currently smoking and who smoked in the past were 75.9% of male students and 35.9% of females. 40.1 % of the male students and 42.6% of the female...

Male students perform significantly lower than female students on tests that measure writing achievement. The purpose of this study was to explore the use of a visual graphic organizer application to engage elementary-aged male students who struggle with the writing process. The results suggest that teachers of male students should consider using a visual graphic organizer application for writi...

OBJECTIVE To explore changes in specialty preferences and work-related topics during the theoretical phase of Dutch medical education and the role of gender. METHODS A cohort of medical students at Radboudumc, the Netherlands, was surveyed at start (N=612, 69.1% female) and after three years (N=519, 69.2% female), on specialty preferences, full-time or part-time work, motivational factors, an...