scholarly journals Psychological quality of life and employability skills among newly registered first-year students: Opportunities for further university development

Health ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 05 (03) ◽  
pp. 617-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michèle Baumann ◽  
Senad Karavdic ◽  
Nearkasen Chau
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
University Development ◽  
Psychological Quality Of Life

Study time, glasses utilization and age affect quality of life among senior first-year Chinese myopia students

2021 ◽  
pp. 112067212098252
Author(s):  
Ziqian Zhu ◽  
Yan He ◽  
Jiezheng Yang ◽  
Qiaoli Li ◽  
HuanHuan Cheng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Multiple Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Study Time ◽  
First Year ◽  
Normal Vision ◽  
First Year Students

Purpose: To compare the quality of life of senior first-year students with normal vision and myopia, and to explore the risk factors related to quality of life in students with myopia. Methods: In this study, 1103 senior first-year students were enrolled in ten high schools. These students were divided according to the diopter degree, with 916 myopia students and 187 normal vision students. Visual function indexes, such as naked eye vision, were measured and recorded, and social demographic indexes and the National Eye Institute 25-Item Visual Function Questionnaire (NEI VFQ-25) was used. The differences in quality of life between the two groups were compared. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to explore the possible risk factors for quality of life in myopia students. Results: In the NEI VFQ-25, the total quality of life scores of myopia students (77.06 ± 15.66) were lower than those of normal vision students (85.49 ± 12.37). The difference was statistically significant ( p = 0.007). In the correlation analysis, the total scores of quality of life in myopia students were positively correlated with wearing glasses ( p = 0.049), and were negatively correlated with study time ( p = 0.029). Multiple linear regression analysis showed that study time, wearing glasses and age were risk factors affecting quality of life in myopia students. Conclusion: Our results show that senior first-year myopia students have lower quality of life scores than students with normal vision. Study time, wearing glasses and age are risk factors for quality of life in senior first-year myopia students.

scholarly journals First-year at university: The effect of academic employability skills and physical quality of life on students' well-being

Work ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 505-515 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michèle Baumann ◽  
Marie-Emmanuelle Amara ◽  
Senad Karavdic ◽  
Arthur Limbach-Reich
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
First Year ◽  
Physical Quality

Dog-assisted intervention at a Spanish university: pilot study

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 344-356
Author(s):  
Diana Peña Gil ◽  
Mercedes García García ◽  
Celia Camilli Trujillo
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Skills ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Outcome Variable ◽  
Control Group ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Content Type

Purpose Dog-assisted interventions (DAIs) are conducted by universities around the world as innovative methods that improve students’ quality of life. The purpose of this paper is to assess the DAI program’s effect on the stress levels, well-being and social skills of first-year students from different degree programs at Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). Design/methodology/approach The study was conducted with 64 first-year students (M=19.20, SD=1.57). The intervention consisted of three weekly sessions of 1-h duration interacting with a therapy dog. The investigation followed a quasi-experimental pre-test/post-test design with measures of attitudes toward DAI, perceived stress, well-being and social skills. Findings The results indicated significant improvements in all studied variables. Research limitations/implications This study presents some limitations. In the design, the authors lack a control group. Another limitation is related to the sample, which was small. The authors also acknowledge that only one measure of each outcome variable was administered. Likewise, during the interventions, external observations should be added that generate qualitative records focused on student–dog interactions. In addition, physiological measures of stress, such as cortisol levels, should be included in the analysis to further support the obtained results. Nevertheless, as this was a pilot study, future investigations should aim to create a program using a larger sample of both participants as well as and dogs, with a linear/longitudinal design to measure both the mid- and long-term effects. Practical implications In addition, this pilot study was implemented to assist in the validation and adjustment of the DAI program for UCM students. Social implications By using a DAI program, college students have had the opportunity to reduce their stress and develop their social skills, as well as improve their quality of life as individuals and students. Although the implementation of Compludog was small, it was also promising as a pedagogical practice at UCM. Originality/value It was applied for the first time in a Spanish university and provided access to therapy dogs within this context.

Changes in health-related quality of life in patients of self-care vs. in-center dialysis during the first year

2007 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carole Loos-Ayav ◽  
Luc Frimat ◽  
Michèle Kessler ◽  
Jacques Chanliau ◽  
Pierre-Yves Durand ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Self Care ◽  
First Year ◽  
Health Related Quality ◽  
Related Quality ◽  
Health Related

Criteria and indicators associated with adaptation to the educational process of first-year students at the university

2021 ◽  
pp. 87-93
Author(s):  
Evgeniya N. Popova
Keyword(s):  
Research Topic ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
First Year ◽  
Higher Education Research ◽  
Adaptation Process ◽  
Adaptive Potential ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Self Development ◽  
The University

The issue of adaptation of modern first-year students to the educational process at the university is one of the current pedagogical tasks. Successful adaptation significantly affects the quality of received education, the degree of formation of personal and professional qualities, contributes to the development of motivation, self-education, and self-development. The purpose of the research is to substantiate the criteria, indicators, and levels of adaptation of first-year students to the learning process at the university. The material for the study was the domestic scientific sources of studying the peculiarities of the adaptation process of students to educational activities in higher education. Research methods: analysis and generalization of psychological-pedagogical and educational-methodical literature on the research topic. We determine as the main criteria for the adaptation of first-year students to the university, the adaptive potential and professionally important qualities of students, consider these concepts, their structure, and their basic properties. On the basis of the analysis and generalization of the existing indicators of the implementation of the adaptive potential, we formulate the author's indicators for determining the level of its development. The degree of formation of professionally important qualities of students are low, medium, and high levels of development of emotional intelligence, negative communicative attitude, intellectual lability, and stress tolerance.

scholarly journals Sourcebook update: intestinal smooth muscle contractility and autonomic control

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip D. Langton
Keyword(s):  
First Year ◽  
Smooth Muscle Contractility ◽  
Gut Motility ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Authentic Inquiry ◽  
Student Teams ◽  
Functional Antagonism ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Design Experiments

This laboratory practical requires first-year students to anticipate the effects of drugs active at cholinergic and adrenergic receptors on gut motility in order to design experiments during an authentic inquiry exercise. Rather than specifying a strict sequence of drug additions that aim to provide ideal demonstrations of pharmacological and physiological antagonism, I have instead designed switches into the drugs provided and set students, working in small teams, the task of identifying the switched drugs, an inquiry activity. To extend the teamwork aspect, laboratory reports were submitted by the student teams rather than individual students. Staff observed that discussions within the teams were stimulated by the inquiry-led nature of the practical. The quality of the laboratory reports submitted by teams were substantially improved over the individual reports submitted in previous years. (Students previously worked in teams, but simply followed a list of prescribed experiments and wrote individual reports.) Although, in conversation, teams of students had an improved understanding of the regulation of gut motility by the parasympathetic and sympathetic divisions of the autonomic nervous system and could readily distinguish between pharmacological and functional antagonism, no attempt was made to evaluate learning because the revision was triggered by the observed effect of a technical error and was not otherwise planned. It is likely that laboratory practicals, in general, would benefit from inclusion of inquiry.

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