The study on the interests rate of health faculty students of Ahwaz

authors:

avatar Khodabakhsh Karami 1 , avatar , , avatar Tinoush Soltani 2 , avatar Hamed Tabesh 3

Department of Public health, School of Health, Ahvaz Jundishapour University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, IR Iran
School of Health, Ahvaz Jundishapour University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, IR Iran
Department of Statistics and Epidemiology, School of Health, Ahvaz Jundishapour University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, IR Iran

how to cite: Karami K, , Soltani T, Tabesh H. The study on the interests rate of health faculty students of Ahwaz. Jundishapur J Health Sci. 2009;1(1): -. 

Abstract

One of the factors that makes learning perfect and effective is the convergence
between the learners interest and learning itself.Therefors the students interest affects their
progress and success greatly. The purpose of the present research is to investigate the healh
faculty students interest in their courses and the effective factors which influence this interest.
he present study is a sectional _ descriptive research. 281 male and female health
faculty students took part in study. They are undergraduate and associates degree students having different health field courses and they are also in their third or forth semester. A questionnaire was used to gather information. Its credit was confirmed by related specialists. The information was analyzed by SPSS.
The results show that 60% are interested to their course, well to excellent and 40%
medium to low. 77% of students proponed that one of the important actor that increased their
interest was their teachers in getting more information about their courses. 12/5% of students cited that the poor teaching and not having any guarantee in getting a job in future decrease thier interest.
The results shows that most of the healh students had no interest or awarenss at the first stages so they choose this cours only to get a univercity degree but their intest were increasedafterward by their teachers, guidances. It recomonded that students should consult with university before choosing their course.

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