Assessment of knowledge and awareness among nursing students of a private medical university towards periodontal health and oral-systemic disease link: a cross-sectional study

Abstract Background The clinical clerkship is a crucial stage in nursing training and the dissatisfaction at this stage can lead to nursing quit in the future. This study aimed to evaluate the relationship among personality dimensions, spirituality, coping strategies and clinical clerkship satisfaction in intern nursing students. Methods This was a cross-sectional study. Considering any medical university in Iran as a single cluster, five medical universities, were initially selected. 65 nursing students were randomly selected from each university and from 325 distributed questionnaires, 293 were valid. All participants were provided with standard questionnaires regarding personality dimensions (NEO_FFI), spirituality, coping strategies (WoCQ), and satisfaction with clinical clerkship. Data analyzed using Pearson correlation and hierarchical multiple regression Results The results showed that spirituality, problem-focused coping and extraversion played an important role in predicting satisfaction with clinical clerkship among intern nursing students. Regression analysis represented that openness, extraversion, and spirituality could significantly predict problem-based coping style in intern nursing students. However, personality dimensions and spirituality were not good predictors for emotion-focused coping among intern nursing students. Conclusion Personality dimensions, coping strategies and spirituality, in particular, are good predictors of clinical clerkship satisfaction among intern nursing students.

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Dietary patterns among students of health sciences and its association with morbidity in a private medical university of coastal Karnataka: a cross-sectional study

International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health ◽

10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20173337 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4 (8) ◽

pp. 2870 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sanjeev Badiger ◽

Sanjay Kini ◽

Nanjesh Kumar

Keyword(s):

Nursing Students ◽

Dietary Pattern ◽

Dietary Habits ◽

Eating Habits ◽

Family Care ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Health Sciences ◽

Sectional Study ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Medical University

Background:In general students who get into health sciences experience transition from home and family care to university and hostel life, which in turn exerts lot of stress which affects their dietary pattern. Many life style factors and poor eating habits acquired during this period can lead to serious diseases later in life.Methods:The present study was a questionnaire based cross-sectional study conducted to find out the dietary pattern among the students of health sciences and to know their health and morbidity status.Results:The study included 175 students of Nitte University with 93 Medical, 49 Dental, 33 nursing students. 75% of students who ate outside almost daily had stomach upsets regularly and it was much less (46.8%) among those who had a frequency of not more than once a week. It was seen that 87 (49.71%) students skipped breakfast, 14 (8%) students skipped lunch, 14 (8%) students skipped dinner. 5.7% of subjects were underweight, 85.2% of subjects had a normal BMI and 9.1% were overweight.Conclusions:Hereby we recommend that a nutritional health education intervention aimed at improving the dietary habits of students is the need of the hour.

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Knowledge and attitude of nursing students regarding older adults' sexuality: A cross-sectional study

Nurse Education Today ◽

10.1016/j.nedt.2020.104643 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 96 ◽

pp. 104643

Author(s):

Vivian F.C. Wilschut ◽

Birgit Pianosi ◽

Harmieke van Os-Medendorp ◽

Henk W. Elzevier ◽

Jan S. Jukema ◽

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Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Nursing Students ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Sectional Study ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Knowledge And Attitude

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Final-year nursing students' foundational knowledge and self-assessed confidence in interpreting cardiac arrhythmias: A cross-sectional study

Nurse Education Today ◽

10.1016/j.nedt.2020.104699 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 97 ◽

pp. 104699

Author(s):

Yingyan Chen ◽

Dima Nasrawi ◽

Debbie Massey ◽

Amy N.B. Johnston ◽

Kathryn Keller ◽

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Keyword(s):

Nursing Students ◽

Cardiac Arrhythmias ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Sectional Study ◽

Cross Sectional

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Prelicensure Nursing Students’ COVID-19 Attitude Impact on Nursing Career Decision during Pandemic Threat in Taiwan: A Cross-Sectional Study

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph18063272 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (6) ◽

pp. 3272

Author(s):

Shu-Chun Lin ◽

Lee-Fen Ni ◽

Yu-Ming Wang ◽

Shu Hsin Lee ◽

Hung-Chang Liao ◽

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Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Nursing Students ◽

Perceived Control ◽

Career Decision ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Attitude Scale ◽

Sectional Study ◽

Career Decision Making ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Prelicensure Nursing

The COVID-19 pandemic may cause a nursing shortage. Prelicensure nursing students who are exposed to high-stress COVID-19 events are related to defective career decision-making. This study validated the COVID-19 attitude scale and clarified how their attitudes about COVID-19 affected their behavioral intentions toward career decision-making. We conducted a cross-sectional study and recruited a convenience sample of 362 prelicensure nursing students from Northern and Central Taiwan. Two measurements were applied, including the Nursing Students Career Decision-making instrument and COVID-19 attitude scale. We used AMOS (version 22.0) to perform a confirmatory factor analysis. The Cronbach α of the COVID-19 attitude scale was 0.74 and consisted of four factors. The most positive attitude was the nursing belief factor, and the least positive factor was emotional burden. Prelicensure nursing students’ COVID-19 attitudes were significantly positively associated with their career decision-making attitudes and perceived control (ß = 0.41 and ß = 0.40, respectively; p < 0.001). All the key latent variables explained significantly 23% of the variance in the career decision-making behavioral intentions module. In conclusion, the COVID-19 attitude scale is valid. Although the prelicensure nursing students’ COVID-19 attitudes had no direct effect on career decision-making intentions, they had a direct effect on career decision-making attitudes and the perceived control.

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The mediating effect of academic engagement between psychological capital and academic burnout among nursing students during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study

Nurse Education Today ◽

10.1016/j.nedt.2021.104938 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 102 ◽

pp. 104938

Author(s):

Jinfang Wang ◽

Lingrui Bu ◽

Yan Li ◽

Jie Song ◽

Na Li

Keyword(s):

Nursing Students ◽

Academic Engagement ◽

Psychological Capital ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Mediating Effect ◽

Sectional Study ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Academic Burnout

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Alcohol Use and Sexual Violence among Nursing Students in Catalonia, Spain: A Multicentre Cross-Sectional Study

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph18116036 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (11) ◽

pp. 6036

Author(s):

Concepció Fuentes-Pumarola ◽

Zaira Reyes-Amargant ◽

Alba Berenguer-Simon ◽

David Ballester-Ferrando ◽

Maria Dolors Burjalés-Martí ◽

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Keyword(s):

Nursing Students ◽

Alcohol Use ◽

Sexual Violence ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Sectional Study ◽

Future Health ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Convenience Sample ◽

Sexual Activities ◽

Estimate Prevalence

(1) Background: Sexual violence (SV) has become common in universities for reasons related to unwanted social/peer pressures regarding alcohol/drug use and sexual activities. Objectives: To identify perceptions of SV and alcohol use and estimate prevalence among nursing students in Catalonia, Spain. (2) Methods: Observational descriptive cross-sectional study of a convenience sample of nursing students attending public universities. (3) Results: We recruited 686 students (86.11% women), who reported as follows: 68.7% had consumed alcohol, 65.6% had been drunk at least once in the previous year, 62.65% had experienced blackouts and 25.55% had felt pressured to consume alcohol. Drunkenness and blackouts were related (p < 0.000). Of the 15.6% of respondents who had experienced SV, 47.7% experienced SV while under the influence of alcohol and were insufficiently alert to stop what was happening, while 3.06% reported rape. SV was more likely to be experienced by women (OR: 2.770; CI 95%: 1.229–6.242; p = 0.014), individuals reporting a drunk episode in the previous year (OR: 2.839; 95% CI: 1.551–5.197; p = 0.001) and individuals pressured to consume alcohol (OR: 2.091; 95% CI: 1.332–3.281; p = 0.001). (4) Conclusions: Nursing instructors need to raise student awareness of both the effects of alcohol use and SV, so as to equip these future health professionals with the knowledge and skills necessary to deal with SV among young people.

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