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Internet addiction is one of the challenges of students that may affect their academic performance and cause stress. One of the metabolic changes related to stress is the salivary cortisol level. This study aims to evaluate the relationship of internet addiction with perceived stress, salivary cortisol level, and academic failure in dental students.

In this descriptive-analytical study with a cross-sectional design, 123 dental students from Qom University of Medical Sciences participated. They were selected by a census sampling method. A demographic form, the internet addiction test, and the perceived stress scale were completed by them. Their academic failure was assessed and their salivary cortisol level was measured by the ELISA method. Data were analyzed using ANOVA, t-test, Pearson correlation test, and regression analysis.

Internet addiction had a positive and significant relationship with perceived stress (r=0.21, P=0.003) and its two domains of negative perception (r=0.301, P=0.005) and positive perception (r=0.279, P=0.009). However, it had no significant relationship with salivary cortisol level (P=0.123) or academic failure (P=0.614).

It seems that decreasing internet addiction can reduce the perceived stress of dental students.

Attracting and enrolling the overseas' students is a vital element in international universities.So, , it seems necessary to know the factors affecting students enrollment in the  universities. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the reasons for choosing Iran medical sciences universitis by foreign students.

The present study is a qualitative study with a conventional content analysis approach. 17 foreign students studying in Tehran, Iran and Shahid Beheshti Universities of Medical Sciences who were studied the second semester of the academic year of 2018-2019.  They selected by purposive sampling method and interviewed by semi-structured method. The collected data were analyzed currently based on five Griesheim steps.

Findings of the thematic analysis of the interviews showed that 3 categories of scientific, cultural-social and economic components with seven subcomponents including "high rank and reputation of the university", "competent professors", "proximity of the country-neighborhood", "common religion-Religious similarity", "High security-especially for girls", "Loving Iran-Iranian culture", "Scholarship-appropriate tuition", "common language" and "Friends' recommendation" are the reasons for choosing Iran as a university destination by foreign students.

According to the findings, scientific, cultural and economic factors are the most important reasons for choosing Iran universities as a destination for studing by foreign students.

Motivation is one of the key factors in learning and it can affect the various aspects of student behavior in the educational system. The aim of this study was to determine the academic motivation of the students of Laboratory Sciences of the Eastern Medical Sciences Universities in 2017.

This descriptive-analytical and cross-sectional study was conducted on 334 Medical laboratory students studying at the universities of eastern medical sciences in Iran. For data collecting, Academic Motivation Scale (AMS) and a researcher-made questionnaire for related factors which validity and reliability were confirmed in previous studies have been used. Finally, the data were analyzed by SPSS software using descriptive and analytical statistics and t-test, one-way ANOVA and x2 tests.

The results showed that the mean age of the students was 20.53±1.57 years and the average studentchr(chr('39')39chr('39'))s motivation was 124.04±18.75 out of 189 points. Also, There was a significant difference (P<0.05) between the level of educational motivation and each level of welfare, educational and job prospects as well as the variables of age, sex, and university. Also there was a significant relation between extrinsic motivation and intrinsic motivation.

Regarding the results of the study and the relationship between academic motivation and related factors, as well as the average studentchr(chr('39')39chr('39'))s motivation, more attention should be paid to these factors to remove these obstacles and lead to increasing the studentschr(chr('39')39chr('39')) motivation for their growth and development.

Adolescence is a more Challenging period than other periods of life. Though academic achievement is a universal concern for all students, but the perception of adolescents about these concerns and its severity is more related to the atmosphere and culture of the society in where students live. Hence, according to the effect of education system on adolescents, this study aimed to determine Educational concerns of high school female students from their own perspective.

This quantitative content analysis study was performed on 500 high school female students in Gorgan city. Data were collected using an open-ended question about students' concerns about their daily lives. In total, 482 sheets including adolescents concerns, were analyzed.

The findings showed three categories of self (%93.8), significant other (%44.8), and peripheral system (%21.2). In this study, the adolescents' concerns categorized in the three categories that were related to their education system, were discussed.

The results of this study showed high concern of adolescents about academic achievement. The current education policies push adolescents into one-dimensional life, without learning skills. The result could lead to bringing up adolescents who have difficulty in shaping their personality, humanity, and creativity, and have not learned the essential skills of life. Therefore, society seems to need corrective changes in the education system.

Positive thinking skills are one of the most important skills to cope with academic challenges and students' success. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of teaching positive thinking skills on academic buoyancy, academic engagement and goal orientation-progress in girl students with depression syndrome in Izeh city. This research was a quasi-experimental design with pretest-posttest design with control group. The statistical population of this study included all girl students with depression syndrome in Izeh city in 2017. Twenty-two of them were selected through convenience sampling method and were divided into two experimental and control groups by simple random method. The data was collected using the “Educational Vitality Questionnaire”, “Educational Enthusiasm Questionnaire”, and “Goal Orientation Questionnaire”. The validity of the instruments was confirmed by content validity and their reliability by Cronbach's alpha method. The experimental group received positive thinking skills training in 8 sessions of 90 minutes. Data was analyzed with SPSS. 23. The mean of pre-test scores in the experimental and control groups were respectively academic buoyancy (29.7, 29.4), academic engagement (44.07, 43.95), mastery goal orientation (30.46, 30.63), performance goal orientation (33.52, 33.29) and avoidance goal orientation (28.01, 27.30) in experimental, and there was no significant difference. The comparison of the mean post-test scores in the experimental and control groups were respectively academic buoyancy (34.16, 29.95), academic engagement (49.03, 43.7), mastery goal orientation (34.22, 31.55), performance goal orientation (37.28, 32.74) and avoidance goal orientation (26.86, 27.51) and there was a significant difference (P < 0.001). The intervention of teaching positive thinking skills in girl students with depression syndrome improves their academic performance. Therefore, the implementation of positive thinking training by experts is recommended to improve the educational conditions of girl students with depression syndrome.

Motivation is one of the most important issues affecting academic achievement. This study was designed to assess the degree of educational motivation and their related factors in students of Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences.
In this in analytical cross-sectional study 261 students studying in Shahrekord University of Medical Science during 2014-2015 educational year were selected by stratified sampling. Vallerands Academic Motivation Scale (AMS-C 28) and Related Factors questionnaire was used to collect data. The questionnaire includs four parts; student welfare, faculty education and future job. Analysis of data was done by descriptive and analytical statistical tests.
Mean age of participants was 23.2±2.0. Most students were female (71.8 percent), single (85.9 percent) and living in dormitories (69 percent). Level of motivation in most subjects was average and had significant relation with age, sex, parents’ education level, field of study,welfare, faculty education, training centers and job future (p Student's motivation should be increased. To achieve this; learning program about motivational theory for faculty members and more attention to students welfare are recommended.

Emotional creativity as one of creativities in emotional field needs to removing ordinary emotional reflectives and creating innovative emotional reflectives.in this regards, academicenthusiasm refer to behaviours that are related to learning and promoting.considering the importance of creativity and academic enthusiasm among students,this study has been done for studing relationship between emotional creativity and academic enthusiasm in public health students in Gonabad university of medical sciences.
This is a descriptive- analytic and cross-sectional study.The study population included 352 students of the school of Public Health in Gonabad University of Medical Sciences in 2015. The sample based on kregcie and Morgan table was 185 students that were selected through stratified random sampling method. For gathering data the questionnaires of emotional creativity Averil (1994) and academic enthusiasm Frederick et al (2004) with reliability of (0.89 )and (0.72) were used respectively. Data were analysed using SPSS , Pearson correlation and regression test at the significant level of 0.05.
The results showed that the level of student's emotional creativity and academic enthusiasm School of Public Health were above average. There was a relationship between the emotional creativity and academic engagement(r=0.494 , p=0.001) and components of emotional readiness, effectiveness and genuineness were the components of anticipating student's enthusiasm (p=0.001).
Given that there is a relationship between emotional creativity and academic engagement Therefore, the authorities of university must be reinforce student's emotional creativity and academic engagement Through educational courses and workshops.

academic dissatisfaction from effective factors in academic achievement and student’s success in their field future, So that the study of causes could be the basis for students counseling and is an indicator for performance improved. This study aimed to determine effective factors on academic dissatisfaction of students from their fields.
This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted with partnership of 202 Students of nursing, anesthesia, operation room, laboratory sciences and health through census from Jahrom University of Medical Sciences in 2013. Data gathering tool was a researcher-made questionnaire with 36 questions. Validity and reliability with alpha α=0/94 was approved. SPSS 16 and correlational tests (correlation and t – test tests) were used for data analysis.
The most important effective factors to academic dissatisfaction were discrimination between nursing and paramedic’s students with medical students (4.4±0.98), there is Physician Salary (4.34±0.98) and lack of proper presentation of nursing and paramedical fields before entering university (4.25±0.91), respectively. The least effective factors in academic dissatisfaction were the inability of students in care from patients (2.96±1.25), Lack of respectful attitude of training staff (3.41±1.24) and not the spirit of hard work in students (3.42±1.11), respectively.
Ethical and psychological dimensions were identified the most important factors associated with academic dissatisfaction. Hence, more attention to this areas and planning for creation balanced and fair environment between all disciplines in the universities by educational planners and administrators is recommended.

Stress and tension have allocated a part of human life to itself. This study was aimed to investigate the association between educational stress and different domains of quality of life in the students staying in dormitories of Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences in 2012.
This research was a cross-sectional study, which was performed by multistage sampling on 206 students. To gather data, questionnaire of demographic data, questionnaire of academic stress and questionnaire of quality of life SF36 were used. Data were analyzed using SPSS through descriptive and analytical statistics.
Mean score of their total quality of life was 56.76±16.72. Also, mean score of academic stress was 55.5±19.68. With increase in stress, the score of quality of life decreased in all of its domains (P Academic stress could influence students’ quality of life; it is necessary to implement required interventions in the students staying in dormitories.

Some individual and environmental factors affect on learning and learners’ educational progress, among them, motivation plays a prominent and perhaps more important role. Students’ motivation for learning can be affected by a set of correlated factors Knowing these factors help teacher choose appropriate teaching learning activities and strategies, interact effectively with learners and also improve teaching effectiveness. The aim of this study was to determine the educational motivation and its effective factors from the viewpoints of nursing students in Ahvaz Jondishopour university of medical sciences. This is a descriptive-analytic study, 155 nursing students were selected by census sampling. The tools for data collection includes: demographic data form and self-designed Motivation Questionnaire contain of four dimensions: primary and secondary physiologic motivations, mental-social motivations, spiritual and educational motivations. The reliability of questionnaire was assessed by Cronbach's Alpha (α =0.86). The data were analyzed using descriptive and Pearson’s linear correlation coefficient, Spearman’s correlation coefficient, independent T-test and multiple response tests in SPSS software version 16. Mean and standard deviation of students’ academic motivation was 86.3±19.2, and 50.7 percent of them had academic motivation scores higher than average. 60.6 and 49.7 percent of students had higher scores than average in spiritual and social dimensions respectively. A negative significant correlation was observed between semester and motivation(r=-0.21, p=0.007). Also there was a significant relation between marriage status and motivation (p<0.05). The most factors that increased motivation were Achieve their fellow service (71.6%), Provide more opportunities to help families (69.7%), achieve dignity living (65.8%) respectively. giving lower level duties to nursing students in clinical field (59.4%), physicians’ attitude toward nursing (51.6%), society attitude toward nursing (50.3%) and how doctors behave to nursing students (50.3%) were the most factors that decrease motivation. The result showed that the students had average level of educational motivation and this is decreased during course study. So it is possible to improve the students’ motivation by adjustment of society and care givers views.

Information literacy is a set of skills and abilities for effective information search، evaluation and use. Vast volume of information is published in digital environment that make the necessity of electronic information usage inevitable. This research aimed to evaluate the information literacy and study the effectiveness of an intervention as a theoretical-practical information literacy workshop among newcomer students of Babol University of Medical Sciences. This quasi-experimental study was conducted among all newcomer students of Babol University of Medical Sciences who interested in participating in the workshop held in the central library in the academic year of 2011-2012. Among them، 50 students were selected by simple random sampling method. For data collection، a researcher-made questionnaire was designed with 3 sections including demographic information، familiarity with library activities and services، and information literacy level. Paired T and Wilcoxon tests were applied for data analysis in SPSS 16 software. The mean of students’ information literacy level was 0. 82±0. 98 before training which was increased to 4. 76±2. 60 after training (p=0. 008). Only 9 students (18%) were familiar with library activities before training which was increased to 38 students (76%) after training (p=0. 001). Educational intervention through library education affects newcomer students’ information literacy and increases it.

Motivation is considered as an important factor in students’ learning, skills achievement and finally educational achievement. Regarding to this fact and importance of performance in graduated nursing and midwifery students, this study aimed identifying the motivation of nursing and midwifery students toward their field of study selection. This is a descriptive-analytic study, 200 nursing and midwifery students of Mashhad University of medical sciences were selected by classified-cluster sampling method at random in second semester 87-88. The tools for data collection include: demographic data form and Motivation Questionnaire consist of 10 motivating factors classified in two parts: intrinsic and extrinsic motivating factors by using content validity and Cronbach's Alpha reliability (0/80). These data were analyzed using descriptive (frequency table, mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation). Based on findings, the total mean scores of motivating factors were 33.46±6.43 that was in the average level. Intrinsic motivating factors score was higher than extrinsic. t-test showed a significant difference between nursing and midwifery students in some motivating factors such as “social reputation and respect of career” (P<0.001), “family advisability” (P=0.034), “having more welfare benefits” (P=0.037) and “more employment possibility” (P<0.001). The first 3 factors scores were higher in midwifery students. ANOVA test showed, there was significant difference between students’ motivating factors rate with father’s educational level (P=0.006) and mother’s job (P=0.004). According to Pearson correlation test, the higher semester (P=0.009) and age (P=0.008), the less intrinsic motivation. According to results, the motivation of students toward field of study selection was in average level and intrinsic motivation decreased during course study. So, it is possible to effective empowering motivation and preventing break down intrinsic motivation during course study, through organizing educational programs for professional identity development and consequently better opportunity for students’ performance.

Nowadays, there is great emphasis on the commitment of dentists as health care workforce, thus, awareness of their motivations and expectations is important in order to promote general and oral health. The aim of the present study was to evaluate dental post graduate student’s motivations and career choice plans in relation to sex, marital status and parent’s education in Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran in 2009-2010. A total of 116 dental post graduate students have been participated in this survey and a valid and reliable questionnaire was designed in three sections based on previous studies consisting of motivations and career choice plans and was distributed among them. Data were entered in to SPSS (16) and were analyzed with Mann Whitney test. Social/occupational prestige was the most important motivation (%92). On the other hand, there was significant association between motivations and career choice plans with marital status and parent’s job as dentist/physician. Influence of family had significantly more impact among residents who had dentist/physician parents compared to those with parents in other occupations (p=0.011) (%65). The most important career choice plan was to work in private sector (94/84%). The married people were inclined to constitute a professional dental clinic with colleagues (p=0.0037) (%86). Single students had more interest in research in the field of dentistry (p=0.047) (%60). The most important motivations were social/ occupational prestige, income, independence and personal interest in dentistry respectively. The most important career choice plans were working in private sector, recruitment in university as dental faculty and constitution a professional dental clinic with colleagues.

The high rate of attrition among nursing students and their lack of interest for continuing their profession have caused some nursing leaders to think about the necessity of considering the students’ personality during the process of admission to nursing schools. Due to the lack of studies on Iranian nursing students’ personality, this study was designed to determine the freshmen's personality characteristics and their compatibility with the demands of nursing profession. A descriptive study was conducted at Tehran and Kashan medical universities and one of the Azad universities. Convenience sampling was used and 52 first year nursing students were assessed using Holland vocational interest inventory. Sixty three point five percent of students were female, 36.5% were male and their mean age was 22±1.2 years. Based on the Holland’s vocational interest inventory, 44% did not have appropriate personality characteristics for the nursing profession. Seventy seven percent of nursing students believed that they lacked enough information about nursing at the time of selecting nursing as their discipline of study. Considering their most salient characteristics, almost half of nursing students were not compatible with the necessary requirements for nursing profession. It is recommended to use personality tests for selecting the best students for nursing schools among those who show good academic capabilities.