Professional Students Research Articles

Cabaran Pelaksanaan Didik Hibur oleh Guru bagi Pengajaran Simpulan Bahasa dalam kalangan Murid Sekolah Rendah

Cabaran Pelaksanaan Didik Hibur oleh Guru bagi Pengajaran Simpulan Bahasa dalam kalangan Murid Sekolah Rendah

The case for health professional student communication skills training for persons with aphasia.

Communication challenges in persons with aphasia may negatively affect their health care. Building effective communication skills is critical for health professional student education, yet communication skills for interacting with persons with aphasia are often not taught or practiced within health care education. A review of the literature found that research is limited but does demonstrate evidence-based training can improve skills for health professional students. Through utilization of workshops, seminars, and standardized patients, medical students and other health professional students can build confidence and skills in successful communication for future encounters with persons with aphasia.

Assessing Technology and Digital Platforms for Data-Driven Mathematics teaching and learning in South African Schools

As the world has become more digitalized, technology and digital platforms have revolutionized the way mathematics is taught and learned. It is, however, possible to further transform the way mathematics teaching and learning is conducted by using technology and digital platforms. Schools need to use digital platforms for teaching and learning mathematics to improve performance mathematics since the subject is considered difficult. Data-driven mathematics teaching and learning using technology and digital platforms have been discussed in this article. According to the authors, improved mathematics performance can be achieved by implementing strategies addressing digital platforms, data-driven pedagogy, teacher professional development and student engagement. As a means of achieving meaningful mathematics teaching and learning in South African schools, the authors believe technology and digital platforms can play a significant role. In this theoretical paper, the authors examined a constructivist approach to learning, which holds that learning involves interaction with the environment to construct knowledge. Also incorporated into the framework is the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), which emphasizes that perceived efficacy, user-friendliness, and social influences impact the adoption and use of technology. As a result of the technology acceptance model, South African schools will be able to overcome challenges like infrastructure limitations and inadequate teacher training to advance the digitalization of information in mathematics education. Keywords: Technology, Digital Platforms, Data-Driven, Pedagogy, Student-engagement

Combined with multi-objective optimization algorithm of college art professional college students’ social practice nurturing function and realization way

Abstract Participating in social practice can help guide young people to better realize the unity of knowledge and action, learning to use, in order to be able to “gain what it can’t”, so this paper on how to better realize the social practice of college students to explore. First of all, this paper comprehends the structure and mechanism of college students’ social practice and researches the function of social practice through the operation mechanism of college students’ social practice. Then, based on the goal of solving the problems existing in social practice, the problem of multi-objective optimization is proposed, and the NSGA-II algorithm is optimized by adding the NDX operator and adaptive adjustment of the variation operator so as to solve the multi-objective optimization problem. The proposal for achieving social practice is made from three aspects: curriculum, theme, and research. Finally, the performance of the algorithm, the effect of social practice, and the optimization effect of social practice are analyzed through empirical evidence and algorithmic experiments. The results show that the range of the offspring using the NDX operator is between −1.75 and 3, the maximum number of occurrences of the offspring individuals are all around 2500, and the best comprehensive performance of HV and IGD are 0.93 and 0.11, respectively. The gains of ideological and moral literacy, personal ability enhancement as well and the practice object before optimization are all within 4.5, and the enhancement of the three conditions after optimization is around 0.7.

Survey of attitudes toward performing and reflecting on required team service-learning (SASL): psychometric data and reliability/validity for healthcare professions students in preclinical courses

PurposePreviously we assessed healthcare professional students’ feelings about team-based learning, implicit bias, and service to the community using an in-house paper survey. In this study, we determined whether this survey is a reliable and valid measure of prospective medical students’ attitudes toward required service-learning in an Immunology course. To our knowledge, no published questionnaire has been shown to be dependable and useful for measuring such attitudes using only eight survey items.MethodsFifty-eight prospective medical students in Colorado (CO) and 15 in Utah (UT) completed the same Immunology course using remote technology. In addition to the usual course content, students were required to write critical reflections on required team service-learning. On the last day of class, they completed the survey of attitudes toward service-learning (SASL).ResultsData analyses found Cronbach’s alpha values of 0.84 and 0.85 for the surveys of UT and CO students, respectively. Factor analysis of CO student data revealed only one Eigenvalue greater than one (3.95) justifying retention of a single factor termed “attitudes toward required service-learning.” In addition, CO students’ attitudes toward community service were highly positive, while UT students’ attitudes were nearer neutral (p < 0.0001).ConclusionOur factor analysis and good Cronbach’s alpha values support the conclusion that the SASL was a reliable measure of prospective medical students’ attitudes toward required team service-learning for an Immunology course. Moreover, we used the SASL to distinguish these attitudes in CO versus UT students, and, thus, the SASL appears to be a valid measure of this difference. Calculation of similarly good Cronbach’s alpha values – for a predecessor of the SASL among pharmacy, masters, and medical students at another institution – indicates that the SASL may be useful more widely. However, the reliability and validity of the SASL needs to be demonstrated more rigorously for other healthcare students at different universities.

Edukasi Pemanfaatan Pelayanan Posyandu di Kelurahan Legok

Posyandu is one form of Community Resource Health Effort (UKBM) which is managed and organized from, by, for and with the community in the implementation of health development, in order to empower the community and provide convenience to the community in obtaining basic health services to accelerate the reduction in maternal and infant mortality rates. The lack of public awareness about health problems tends to ignore health problems and does not utilize health services, especially posyandu. Therefore, in supporting the improvement of knowledge and public welfare, health workers play a role in assessing problems that occur and planning health problems through health promotion programs. The people of Legok Village have less awareness and willingness in improving the degree of health and utilization of health services, especially posyandu. The purpose of this community service activity is to increase public understanding of the use of posyandu services in Legok Village. The method of activities carried out in the form of health promotion carried out to solve these problems is by educating about the use of posyandu services. The place of implementation was carried out at the RT 08 house in Legok Village, Jambi City on July 29, 2022, the implementation of community service activities was carried out from March to August 2022 with team members and professional students. There were 11 participants present. The results of the evaluation showed an increase in participants' knowledge by an average of 90%. Community participation needs to be increased in the posyandu program, it is necessary to provide correct and targeted information.

Predictive machine learning model for mental health issues in higher education students due to COVID-19 using HADS assessment

PurposeStudents pursuing different professional courses at the higher education level during 2021–2022 saw the first-time occurrence of a pandemic in the form of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and their mental health was affected. Many works are available in the literature to assess mental health severity. However, it is necessary to identify the affected students early for effective treatment.Design/methodology/approachPredictive analytics, a part of machine learning (ML), helps with early identification based on mental health severity levels to aid clinical psychologists. As a case study, engineering and medical course students were comparatively analysed in this work as they have rich course content and a stricter evaluation process than other streams. The methodology includes an online survey that obtains demographic details, academic qualifications, family details, etc. and anxiety and depression questions using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). The responses acquired through social media networks are analysed using ML algorithms – support vector machines (SVMs) (robust handling of health information) and J48 decision tree (DT) (interpretability/comprehensibility). Also, random forest is used to identify the predictors for anxiety and depression.FindingsThe results show that the support vector classifier produces outperforming results with classification accuracy of 100%, 1.0 precision and 1.0 recall, followed by the J48 DT classifier with 96%. It was found that medical students are affected by anxiety and depression marginally more when compared with engineering students.Research limitations/implicationsThe entire work is dependent on the social media-displayed online questionnaire, and the participants were not met in person. This indicates that the response rate could not be evaluated appropriately. Due to the medical restrictions imposed by COVID-19, which remain in effect in 2022, this is the only method found to collect primary data from college students. Additionally, students self-selected themselves to participate in this survey, which raises the possibility of selection bias.Practical implicationsThe responses acquired through social media networks are analysed using ML algorithms. This will be a big support for understanding the mental issues of the students due to COVID-19 and can taking appropriate actions to rectify them. This will improve the quality of the learning process in higher education in Oman.Social implicationsFurthermore, this study aims to provide recommendations for mental health screening as a regular practice in educational institutions to identify undetected students.Originality/valueComparing the mental health issues of two professional course students is the novelty of this work. This is needed because both studies require practical learning, long hours of work, etc.

The relationship between personality traits, dental anxiety, and self-reported bruxism among health professional students: A cross-sectional study

The relationship between personality traits, dental anxiety, and self-reported bruxism among health professional students: A cross-sectional study

Caring Improvement with An Analysis of The Causes of Emotional Exhaustion in Professional Students

The demand for quality services to patients and families continues to increase, especially for nursing services, so it requires nurses who have good caring. Students of the nursing profession who are future nurse candidates, cannot be separated from these demands. These demands can have the potential to bring emotional exhaustion to students. Emotional exhaustion can be caused by social support, workload, and self-efficacy. The purpose of this study was to analyze the increase in caring based on the analysis of the causes of emotional fatigue in nursing profession students. The research design in this study is a quantitative method with a cross sectional approach. The population of this study is professional students in two institutions in Jember. The number of samples in this study was 150 respondents, with accidental sampling techniques. Data taken from this study are caring behavior, self-efficacy, support, workload, and emotional exhaustion. In general, the results of this study were found that there was a relationship between social support and emotional fatigue (p-value = <0.0000, B: -0.986), there was a relationship between workload and emotional fatigue (p-value = <0.0000, B: 0.372), there was no relationship between self-efficacy and emotional fatigue (p-value = 0.356, B: -0.84) and there was a relationship between emotional fatigue and caring behavior (p-value = 0.002, correlation coefficient: 0.112). Caring can be improved by means of support from students' families, educational institutions and places of practice and calculating the workload experienced by students when carrying out practice.

A 3D-Printed Forearm Trainer for the Practice of Ultrasound-Guided Arterial and Venous Line Placement

As sonography (US) continues to become a mainstay in medicine, both as a screening device and as a procedural tool, the use of task-based sonographic trainers (i.e., phantoms) in medical training has become increasingly necessary. This is especially true for what has been termed ‘the global use of US’, or the use of US as an imperative tool during structural planning and placement of peripheral and central lines within patients in emergency and hospital settings. However, despite the frequency and technicality of US-guided procedures involving arterial and venous line placement, the benefit of such hands-on US simulation training for employees and professional students alike is often outweighed by cost. The current market for US trainers displaying human forearm anatomy and branching vessels comes at a high price tag of over 2,000 USD per model. The authors’ experiment utilises 3D printing techniques and biodegradable ballistics gel to create a cost-effective, versatile, and yet realistic peripheral line simulator in order to cultivate real-time learning of arterial/venous arm anatomy, while providing mechanical practice for needle driving and US technique, all at a fraction of the commercial price.

Empowering medical students through collaborative writing sessions.

Scientific writing and critical appraisal of the literature are fundamental skills for future physicians. However, these skills have been inconsistently prioritised across medical curricula, leaving medical trainees to seek these skills through continuing education courses. We conducted a series of complementary collaborative writing sessions (introductory workshop with 3-month practical sessions) with direct supervision to medical trainees (medical students and recent medical graduates) in the Dominican Republic between 2017 and 2020. We also examined medical trainees' perceptions of these collaborative writing sessions, as a mechanism to advance technical writing and critical analysis skills for their professional training and personal growth. Participants described the perceived enabling factors of the collaborative writing sessions that led to their publications as: (1) detailed agenda; (2) direct mentorship; (3) effective teamwork; (4) personal investment and dedication; and (5) future vision. These collaborative writing sessions, consisting of a viable agenda and timeline, direct mentorship with timely feedback, and team dynamics, are recognised as an innovative model for medical trainees in the Dominican Republic. This academic model and approach can be adapted to meet the specific needs of health professional students across the globe. By mastering these fundamental written communication skills, medical trainees can contribute to research and policy development, lead health education initiatives, advocate for best clinical practices in patient care, and mentor the next generation of trainees.

Attitudes of Healthcare Professionals and Internship Students Toward Patient Safety During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Qom, Iran, 2021

Background: The main problems endangering patient safety are errors and accidents caused by healthcare providers, mainly due to their unfavorable patient safety attitudes. Objective: This research aims to investigate the attitudes of healthcare professionals and internship students toward patient safety during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted. Using the convenience sampling method, 232 healthcare professionals and students under training and internships were selected in intestinal care units, general wards, and operating room departments in 3 teaching hospitals affiliated with Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran. Data gathering was performed during August and September 2021, when the majority of visits to the hospitals were related to patients with COVID-19. The inclusion criteria included medical staff and students with at least six months of work experience in hospitals admitting COVID-19 patients. The exclusion criteria were unwillingness to participate, withdrawal from the study, and not completing the research. The Data collection tool was the Safety Attitude Questionnaire. Results: Most of the study participants were nurses (73.27%), women (55.60%), married (56.47%), and with lower incomes than expenses (50%). The mean safety attitude score of the participants was 99.07± 16.31. Average scores of safety attitude in groups of nurses, nursing internship, operating room nurses, and operating room internship were 98.69, 100.26, 108.16, and 96.40, respectively. Pearson correlation test showed no significant correlation between the safety attitude scores of healthcare professionals and their age (P = 0.652) and work experience (P = 0.441). Based on the Kruskal-Wallis test, the income status perception of the study participants was significantly correlated with their safety attitude scores (P = 0.001). Conclusions: The COVID-19 pandemic had not a significant effect on the attitude of healthcare professionals in comparison with previous studies. However, in this study, the attitudes of the healthcare professionals and interns were inappropriate. It is recommended that specialized training courses on how to deal with crises such as pandemics be planned and held for healthcare providers.

The Effective Paradigm for Quality Assessment in Professional Degree Graduate Student Cultivation

The Effective Paradigm for Quality Assessment in Professional Degree Graduate Student Cultivation

Identifying the Needs of a Diverse Cohort and Engagement Opportunities That Foster a Sense of Belonging at a Hispanic-Serving Doctoral Program

ABSTRACT This mixed method study assessed the perceptions of health professional graduate students on a sense of belonging and evaluated the engagement experiences valued most in a graduate program across three domains of belonging, academics and diversity, equity and inclusion. Hispanic students valued building professional relationships with faculty and mentors more than non-Hispanic students while non-Hispanic students valued opportunities to discuss race relations outside the classroom. Belonging at the graduate level in health professional programs is distinct from undergraduate programs because of new expectations of developing into entry level clinicians. This study showed that Hispanic students significantly valued building connections with mentors, faculty and staff, identifying a need of continued supportive mentoring relationships within this population at the graduate level. Implications of these findings across the available literature are discussed.

Causes of University Students’ Disaffection: Study of Professional and Non-professional Courses

Students’ disaffection from academic institutions is becoming a widespread problem. Academicians and researchers are more concerned about the causes of an increasingly high level of students’ disaffection. The researcher has conducted this empirical investigation to know the causes of students’ disaffection and to measure their perceptual differences among professional and non-professional course students. A sample of 425 students from public universities in Haryana, India, has been drawn to fulfill the study's goal. A Google form has been created and shared in university student groups based on the snowball sampling technique. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) has been used to confirm the significant causes of students’ disaffection identified through a review of literature and expert opinions. An independent sample t-test was used to measure the significant difference in students’ disaffection causes among professional and non-professional course students. The results of the study highlighted that delayed administration, academic stress, lack of academic environment, unmet promises, conflict with management, and fellow students’ behavior significantly cause students’ disaffection. The study further highlighted that professional and non-professional course students significantly differ based on delayed administration, lack of academic environment, and unmet promises. The remaining causes: academic stress, conflict with management, and fellow students’ behavior were equally significant in both courses. In the end, the implication of the research has been discussed.

The power to help or harm: student perceptions of transgender health education using a qualitative approach

BackgroundLack of transgender health education among health professional education programs is a limitation to providing gender-affirming care. Educational interventions have advanced in the past decade using a variety of pedagogical approaches. Although evidence supports that educational interventions can significantly improve student knowledge, comfort levels, preparedness, and clinical skills, few studies have addressed student perceptions of or receptiveness towards transgender health education. The study purpose was to explore student perceptions of transgender health education using a qualitative approach.MethodsWe utilized a basic qualitative design to explore student perceptions of transgender health education at a Catholic, Jesuit institution. Participants were medical students (n = 182), medical family therapy students (n = 8), speech, language and hearing sciences students (n = 44), and dietetic interns (n = 30) who participated in an Interprofessional Transgender Health Education Day (ITHED) in partnership with transgender educators and activists. Participants completed an online discussion assignment using eight discussion prompts specific to the ITHED sessions. Data were analyzed using the constant comparative method and triangulated across four medical and allied health programs.ResultsA total of 263 participants provided 362 responses across eight discussion prompts. Three major themes resulted: (1) The Power to Help or Harm, (2) The Responsibility to Provide Health Care, and (3) A Posture of Humility: Listen and Learn. Each theme was supported by three to four subthemes.ConclusionsHealth professional students were highly receptive towards transgender health education delivered by transgender community members. First-person accounts from session facilitators of both positive and negative experiences in healthcare were particularly effective at illustrating the power of providers to help or harm transgender patients. Reflection and constructive dialogue offers students an opportunity to better understand the lived experiences of transgender patients and explore their identities as healthcare providers at the intersection of their religious and cultural beliefs.

Evaluation of manual dexterity when using a mirror of dental students and academicians with increasing professional experience.

To evaluate the manual dexterity of dentistry students and academicians when using a mirror according to increasing professional experience. The study included 72 subjects, grouped according to professional experience 5th year dentistry students (DS) accepted as no experience-academicians with 1-4 years experience (A5L)-academicians with ≥5 years experience (A5M). Direct and indirect visualisation using the mirror was evaluated with the completion times of the O'Connor Finger Dexterity Test. The hand grip strength values of both left and right hand were found to be statistically significantly higher in all the males than in the females (p < .05). The indirect test times (ITT) using the mirror were significantly longer for males than for females (p = .001), and no significant difference was determined between the genders in the direct test times (DTT) (p > .05). For all the study participants, DTT shortened as professional experience increased (p < .05). In addition, the mean values of both DTT (p = .031) and ITT (p = .028) in the DS group were statistically significantly longer than the A5M group. With increasing professional experience, manual dexterity was determined to increase, and females were found to be more successful in the direct manual dexterity tests independently of the groups. The statistical significance between the DS and A5M groups, especially in the hand dexterity test with a mirror, shows the importance of experience. The study results demonstrated that professional manual dexterity in dentistry can be developed with increasing practical application.

OCEAN Model from Ramayana Characters

Purpose: This research paper is a thought-provoking blend of management, science and mythology. The researcher elucidates how OCEAN traits to Professional and psychology students with the help of characters from Ramayana. The outcome of the research assists individual personalities to discover them as well as to understand basic individual differences. Objectives: The researchers have established the undermentioned primary objectives and the present study investigates 2 broad research questions: (1) To identify the personality of Ramayana characters and its spectrum. (2) To interpret characters from Ramayana to explain the OCEAN Model. Design/Methodology/Approach: The study is based on both secondary &amp; primary evidence. Hypotheses are stated for the various variables selected and scrutinized to prove or disprove the same without any errors. Findings/Result: The study found correlations between personality traits &amp; OCEAN from Ramayana characters to individuals with the ancient Indian texts. As much as all individuals behave differently in different situations, our behavioural reactions can be clubbed into traits as similar reactions throughout ages and cultures. To conclude, we can say that each one of us is uniquely different yet distinctively similar as well. Research Limitations/Implications: In the current research an attempt is made by the researchers to comprehend the research gap in the area hence a conceptual idea is proposed and the research goes further to advance significance to discover the degree of relationship to interpret characters from Ramayana to explain OCEAN model. Originality/New Knowledge/Interpretation/Value: Many of the earlier studies have proved that the soul of Indian Mythology is beyond simple good and evil. If one cares to dive deep, there’s an attention-grabbing story at each and every step. Psychologists explain this by segregating personality into a private and public persona. Private is the ‘real’ inner person, while public is the way that the individual profiles themselves to the outside world. We may be confident and outgoing in some circumstances and less sure of ourselves and more retiring in other situations. A case where a shy reserved person joins an organization but eventually becomes an arrogant and stubborn boss. This fits the explanation of how our personalities differ situationally. Paper Type: The study is based on both secondary &amp; primary evidence. There are many characters in the Ramayana, with each one having good and bad qualities. Many characters are alike in intelligence but differ in their ethical characteristics. Hence, researchers have put their effort into giving intelligence ratings as well as ethical ratings to the major characters in the research. However, this is not a definitive list.

Development of a Needs Assessment for Low-income Seniors in Cleveland Ohio: A student-driven Interprofessional Approach.

Older persons with low socioeconomic status in the United States have different and unique health needs compared to younger persons. As part of a student-led, interprofessional partnership, we performed a needs assessment of community dwelling older persons with low socioeconomic status in an urban location within Ohio, USA. Three entities participated in the needs assessment: a student-run health clinic, a Federally Qualified Health Center, and an apartment complex of the study population. Health professional students from medical, dental, nursing, social work, nutrition, and physician assistant programs led the needs assessment process. The process consisted of multiple phases, which included preliminary literature review, survey development, data collection, and analysis. The final survey was multidisciplinary, with six content areas covered in 37 items. One hundred nineteen survey responses were received, and multiple areas of need were identified including food insecurity, dental care access, and mental health. 93% of participants had at least one unmet health need and 39% of respondents met our classification for high need. The needs of the local study population had key differences from previously published data in more generalized populations of older community-dwelling individuals in the United States, notably lower utilization of dental care (43% vs. 66%), increased prevalence of possible food insecurity (30% vs. 17%), and increased use of age-appropriate preventive cancer screening services. Multiple areas of need were successfully identified through a student-led interprofessional needs assessment. Future student teams can address the identified needs, again through interprofessional collaborations. This process may have unique benefits to help build robust community-academic partnerships, while fostering interprofessional collaborative opportunities among healthcare students.

Framing asynchronous interprofessional education: a qualitative study on medical, physiotherapy and nursing students.

To explore how virtual, asynchronous modules can be used in interprofessional health education curricula and to identify any advantages and shortcomings of asynchronous interprofessional education. A sample of 27 health professional students who attended in-person interprofessional education workshops at the McMaster Centre for Simulation-Based Learning from 2019-2020 were recruited through email discourse. Participants were asked to complete an asynchronous interprofessional education module and take part in a semi-structured interview that was recorded and transcribed verbatim. Techniques of direct content analysis were used to analyze the qualitative data from recorded transcripts. The following emergent themes from participants' responses were identified: 1) the modules, as well as the features interspersed throughout, taught strategies for conflict resolution and interprofessional communication, 2) the modules have utility in preparing students for future interprofessional learning, 3) the convenience of virtual asynchronous modules introduces a sense of learner safety, and 4) a sense of isolation and fatigue was identified as a consequence of the lack of face-to-face interaction in these modules. Asynchronous interprofessional education modules may be best suited to prepare students for future interprofessional learning in a synchronous setting. Asynchronous modules effectively provide an introduction to interprofessional objectives such as conflict resolution and role clarification, yet the competency of team functioning is more difficult to achieve in an asynchronous environment. Future studies may focus on establishing a sequence of completing asynchronous modules for ideal development of interprofessional competencies in health professions learners.