Prioritization of needs among students of University of Medical Sciences: A needs assessment
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1 Research Center of Health and Environment, Department of Health Education and Promotion, School of Health, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran
2 Ph.D. Student, Biostatistics, Student Research Committee, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Health, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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4 Antai College of Economics and Management/School of Media and Communication, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
5 Ph.D. Student, Health Education and Health Promotion, Health Institute, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
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چکیده
INTRODUCTION: The need assessment is a fundamental part of any planning, and almost byneglecting it, the effectiveness of the programs is impossible. The purpose of this study was theprioritization of needs among students of the Iran University of Medical Sciences.MATERIALS AND METHODS: The design study was conducted in two parts; in the first part, thedesign of the questionnaire was done by qualitative methods. The questionnaires were extractedby interviewing and obtained acceptable validity and reliability. Moreover, the second part createda questionnaire consisting of four categories: education, welfare, economic, and psychological andsocial. A simple random sampling method was used to select 363 people using the Cochran formula.Finally, 336 people (including 28 people excluded) completed the questionnaire. A questionnairedesigned to collect sample data was used and analyzed using version 23 of SPSS.RESULTS: A total of 336 students (26.77 ± 5.45 years) participated in the study. 123 (36.6%) weremale and 213 (63.4%) were female. Psychological and social needs of students were prioritized,and educational priorities were ranked second. The findings showed that there was no significantstatistical difference between the scores of welfares and psychosocial and educational needs andthe gender of the research units (P > 0.05). However, in the mean of economic needs scores, thereis a significant statistical difference between the marital status of the research units (P < 0.05).CONCLUSION: The results of our study in the research units showed that the priority of psychosocialneeds was more than other needs and the educational priority was the next. According to the resultsof this study, we suggest that, in future educational and educational planning, policymakers andplanners should pay attention to psychological and social issues.
