BACKGROUND Little is known about the prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in young adults in Asia. METHODS We invited female and male students in Busan, South Korea, to participate in a survey that included, for females, self-collection of vaginal cells and, for males, physician-performed collection of exfoliated genital cells. The prevalences of 25 HPV types were evaluated, by ...

OBJECTIVE To compare the academic performance of male and female medical students in Pharmacology examinations. METHODS The comparative study was conducted at Rehman Medical College, Peshawar, Pakistan, from March to August 2015. For evaluating the students' academic performance, male and female students of academic sessions 2013-14 and 2014-15 were divided into 4 groups. Group 1: < 50% marks...

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The present investigation was conducted to see the effect of gender of head teachers on the academic success of the school students in Bangladesh. A total of 60 head teachers (male = 37, female = 23) and 3776 students (boys = 2142, girls = 1634) were randomly selected from the schools in a divisional town in Bangladesh to serve as sample. Academic success records of the students in their Primar...

OBJECTIVE To assess the knowledge of male medical students about Hepatitis-B in their preclinical and clinical years and to investigate the self reported vaccination status of these students. METHODS In the year of 2007, 187 male students of Isra University Hyderabad Sindh Pakistan were selected by convenient sampling and surveyed with a self reported questionnaire comprising of questions reg...

A survey of career choices were conducted for three batches of final year medical students at Universiti Sains Malaysia. A total of 241 students responded, giving a response rate of 76%, with 107 males (44.4%) and 134 females (55.6%). Surgery ranked highest among the male students while obstetrics and gynaecology ranked highest among female students. Internal medicine was the second choice for ...

In this study, researcher has tried out to know the status of altruism of students studying at senior secondary class on the basis of their gender. For this study the researcher has selected 200 students. The Altruism Scale prepared by Dr. S.N. Rai and Dr.Sanwat Singh (2004) has been used for the collection of data. The analysis techniques of SPSS-20 have been used by the researcher. The result...

The aim of this cross-sectional study was to determine the self-reported knowledge and pattern of physical activity among a sample of 1240 male and 1331 female intermediate and secondary school students in Al-Khobar city, Saudi Arabia. The majority of male and female students knew that physical activity is protective against diseases in general (92.9% and 91.8% respectively) and in the preventi...

Slater JA, Lujan HL, DiCarlo SE. Does gender influence learning style preferences of first-year medical students? Adv Physiol Educ 31: 336–342, 2007; doi:10.1152/advan.00010.2007.—Students have specific learning style preferences, and these preferences may be different between male and female students. Understanding a student’s learning style preference is an important consideration when design...

This article presents rates of criminal offending in the life history of male and female students at universities in 32 nations who participated in the International Dating Violence Study. The measure of criminal behavior has acceptable coefficients of reliability in most of the national settings, and there is evidence indicating construct validity. National differences in the percent of male s...