Health and environmental practices levels among female students of scientific and humanities academic majors
نویسندگان
1 Department of Curricula and Methodology, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, EG
2 Self Development, Deanship of Preparatory Year, Imam Abdul Rahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
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چکیده
BACKGROUND: Courses’ resources is an important ingredient for building awareness, despite theavailability of health and environmental knowledge in some subjects, students’ practices still needmore improvement. The study aims to investigate the level of health and environmental practicesamong university female students of both scientific and humanities subject majors, and its relationshipto the academic major.MATERIALS AND METHODS: A descriptive research design is applied to a sample of 410 femalestudents enrolled in scientific and humanities majors during 2017/2018 academic year. A “Health andEnvironmental Practices Scale” is prepared for data collection. It includes 58 items with Cronbach’salpha = 0.71 and 0.69 for the two domains. The means percentage and independent t‑test for thetwo majors applied, as P ≤ 0.05 was statistically significant.RESULTS: Results showed that (i) the level of health and environmental practices is “moderate”with a mean of 2.89, 3.17 for both domains, respectively; (ii) there is no statistically significantdifference between health practices level and environmental practices level; (iii) there is no statisticallysignificant difference between humanities and scientific majors and health and environmentalpractices level among students of humanities and scientific majors, which means that the impact ofthe interdisciplinary courses on the level of health and environmental practices is not clear.CONCLUSIONS: Health and environmental awareness among students are found to be moderate.However, actual health and environmental practices are still a huge challenge because of the gapbetween theory and practice.
