OBJECTIVE The aims of this descriptive, cross-sectional investigation were to evaluate the gingival health awareness of dental students by comparing their clinical gingival bleeding scores and self-reports, and to compare differences in awareness between males and females. METHODS In total, 100 (51 males, 49 females) freshman dental students were included in the study. Periodontal indices rec...

abstract background: since nursing and midwifery students avoid taking care of the diseased patients and taking care of the patients with aids can be influenced by their level of knowledge, the present study aimed to define the association between students’ knowledge and their tendency to take care of hiv patients. materials and methods: this is a descriptive analytical study conducted on 210 s...

in this study, the effect of environmental concern, attitudes and behaviors of the university students on the environmentally conscious purchasing behavior was investigated with the help of structural equation model (sem). sem is an effective data analysis tool that expresses the complicated causative relations between the latent variables. in this study, we collected the data from 400 univers...

BACKGROUND The high breast cancer mortality rate in Sub-Saharan Africa has been attributed to a lack of public awareness of the disease which often leads to late diagnosis of the disease. Little is known about the level of knowledge and awareness of breast cancer in Angola. Previous studies have shown that breast cancer awareness is higher among well-educated people. The goal of this study was ...

This study investigated the impact of inflectional and derivational morphemic analysis awareness on ESL secondary school students’ vocabulary learning strategy. The quasi-experimental study was conducted with 106 low proficiency secondary school students in two experimental groups (inflectional and derivational) and one control group. The students’ vocabulary acquisition was assessed through tw...

M-learning is considered as the next generation of e-learning using mobile technologies. It has been a viable alternative for online learning. Students’ awareness of such technology is one of the most focus for success adoption. This study aims to investigate students' awareness and requirements of mobile learning services among Malaysian students in the higher education environment. The study ...

BACKGROUND Adolescent girls continue to fall victim to unintended pregnancy and its consequences, with particular problems arising in low income countries. Awareness about methods of contraception is an important step towards gaining access and using suitable contraceptive methods. However, studies assessing the relationship between sexual and reproductive health communication and awareness of ...

Using structural equation modeling the authors evaluated the contribution of morphological awareness, phonological memory, and phonological decoding to reading comprehension, reading vocabulary, spelling, and accuracy and rate of decoding morphologically complex words for 182 4thand 5th-grade students, 218 6thand 7th-grade students, and 207 8thand 9th-grade students in a suburban school distric...

This study examined college students’ awareness of difficulties in learning class content and selection of study strategies to address the perceived challenges. Data consisted of responses by 94 students to two survey questions on 11 weekly monitoring worksheets. Data analyses, using the constant comparative method and Chi-Square tests, revealed that students’ awareness of different kinds of di...