An Exploratory Study on College Students’ Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Videoconferencing Counseling

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 119-141
Author(s):  
Soo-Jung LEE ◽  
Yu-Na BYUN ◽  
Deok-Hye KIM ◽  
Young-Shin KIM ◽  
Kyu-Jin YON
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Perceptions And Attitudes

Patients’ Perceptions and Attitudes Regarding the Pre-Anesthesia Clinic (PAC) at the National Guard Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: An Exploratory Study (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ghdeer Tashkandi ◽  
Samina Abidi
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
National Guard ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Educational Interventions ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Quantitative Research Methods ◽  
Perceptions And Attitudes ◽  
Educational Information

BACKGROUND Preoperative services and education allow patients to take an active role in their recovery and reduce the risk of post-operative complications. Exploring patients’ perceptions and attitudes regarding pre-anesthesia services and education helps reveal gaps in patients’ uptake of them so that targeted educational interventions can be designed and implemented. OBJECTIVE This is an exploratory study aimed at increasing the understanding of patients’ perceptions and concerns about and the adequacy of the pre-anesthesia services and educational content provided to them at the pre-anesthesia clinic (PAC) of the National Guard Hospital (NGH) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The information gathered will be used to design and develop an electronic patient education system that will allow patients to access personalized, evidence-based pre-anesthesia information relevant to their upcoming surgeries. METHODS Quantitative research methods are used to collect relevant information from patients using a closed-ended questionnaire. The questionnaire includes items on demographics, patients’ perceptions and concerns regarding anesthesia, and the assessment of pre-anesthesia information adequacy. RESULTS Our results showed that 94% of the participants consider the PAC very important, and more than half of the participants (56%) were interested in receiving additional educational information about anesthesia via mobile applications. While 100% of the participants were satisfied with the information and services provided at the clinic, the assessment of this information and service adequacy indicated that participants were not adequately informed about anesthesia. Among the most common anesthesia-related concerns were the inability to wake up after anesthesia, becoming paralyzed after spinal anesthesia, the possibility of staying in the ICU after the surgery and developing back pain. CONCLUSIONS This gathered information will be used to design and develop an educational intervention that will deliver evidence-based, personalized and easy to understand educational instructions to patients to better prepare them for their upcoming surgery. The proposed system will overcome the problems of (i) the spread of generalized unrelated educational information and instructions, (ii) patients forgetting or misunderstanding the given instructions, (iii) issues with the accessibility of information, and (iv) a lack of communication and interaction between patients and their anesthetist.

An Exploratory Study of Word Associations of Negro College Students

1968 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leon H. Belcher ◽  
Joel T. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Word Association ◽  
Scholastic Aptitude Test ◽  
Reading Difficulty ◽  
Aptitude Test ◽  
Word Associations ◽  
Scholastic Aptitude

Two word-association lists of 50 words were each administered to 50 Negro college students. 41 words were taken from the Kent-Rosanoff list, 29 from the Palermo-Jenkins list, and 30 were words used in analogy items of the Scholastic Aptitude Test. Comparisons with previous normative studies showed generally similar results. The present study did result in slightly smaller proportions of matching from class primary responses to noun, pronoun, and adverb stimulus words and of opposite responses to “opposite-evoking stimuli.” A number of the responses indicated reading difficulty or misunderstanding of the word.

scholarly journals Smoking and Peer Preference in College Students: an exploratory study

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 266
Author(s):  
Prachi Chivate ◽  
Maithili Umate ◽  
Swateja Nimkar ◽  
Rebeka Mercker ◽  
Sagar Karia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Peer Preference

Pkejudice and Racial Identity among White Latter-Day Saint College Students: An Exploratory Study

1996 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 1025-1026
Author(s):  
Timothy B. Smith ◽  
Richard N. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Black People ◽  
Black Culture ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Racial Tolerance ◽  
The Church

Previous research has documented increases in racial tolerance of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons or LDS). In the present study, 211 LDS college students held predominantly tolerant attitudes on racial identity which were similar to those of 78 non-LDS peers; however, the LDS subjects expressed more naivete, curiosity, and confusion regarding black people and black culture.

Exploratory Study of Spirituality and Psychosocial Growth in College Students

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda S. Reymann ◽  
Geraldine M. Fialkowski ◽  
Joseph A. Stewart-Sicking
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Exploratory Study

scholarly journals An Exploratory Study of College Students’ Attitudes Toward Dietary Protein: Development of a Dietary Protein Assessment Survey Instrument (P16-047-19)

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Parker Ackerman ◽  
Cynthia Warren ◽  
Robert Wildman ◽  
Derek Miketinas
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Dietary Protein ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Inverse Relationship ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Internal Consistency Reliability ◽  
Vegetarian Diet ◽  
Survey Instrument ◽  
Assessment Survey ◽  
Students Attitudes

Abstract Objectives The purpose of this exploratory study was to develop a survey to estimate college students’ attitudes towards dietary protein. This analysis explored the dimensionality of the attitude constructs in the Dietary Protein Assessment Survey Instrument. Methods The survey consisted of 64 questions, including 8 demographic questions, 24 knowledge questions, 14 attitude questions, and 18 behavior questions. The attitude questions included a 5-point Likert scale ranging from “strongly disagree” to “strongly agree” with a neutral midpoint. The dimensionality of the attitude constructs was explored by exploratory factor analysis (EFA) using principal axis factoring and a promax rotation. Internal consistency reliability was examined using Cronbach's alpha. Results Two hundred twenty-five subjects (91.1% female) provided responses; mean age was 27.8 + 11.7y. After removing items that did not factor, the EFA retained three factors which explained 70.2% of the variance. Factor 1 consisted of 6 items, factor 2 and 3 consisted of 2 items each. Factor 1 included 6 items related to animal versus plant sources and their relationship with human and environmental health; factor 2 included 2 items pertaining to the healthfulness of organic protein sources; and factor 2 included 2 items describing the adequacy of the RDA for protein with respect to weight loss and adherence to a vegetarian diet. Factor 1 shared a moderate, positive relationship with factor 2 (r = 0.48) and a weak, inverse relationship with factor 3 (r = −0.33). Factor 2 shared a weak, inverse relationship with factor 3 (r = −0.30). The Kaiser-Meyer-Oklin test (0.817) and Bartlett's test of sphericity (P < 0.001) indicated that the data were appropriate for EFA. There was no evidence of multicollinearity (determinant = 0.01). Conclusions Attitudes towards protein appear to be multi-dimensional and correlated. Further testing is needed to confirm the hypothesized 3-factor model and to estimate test-retest reliability of this survey. Funding Sources Dymatize.

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