فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

Introduction: Ensuring achievement of research experience by students is one of the mostimportant goals of the thesis‑conduction process and evaluation of student satisfaction withthis process is one of the most imperative challenges herein. Aims: The aim of this study is toinvestigate the satisfaction of dental students passing the thesis educational course from theIsfahan Dental School. Settings and Design: Sixty‑two dental students who had graduatedin2011, from the Isfahan Dental School, participated in this descriptive cross‑sectional studyMaterials and Methods: The postgraduate Research Experience Questionnaire (PREQ) wasused for data collection. The questionnaire evaluated student satisfaction in seven domains:Thesis supervision, skill development, intellectual climate, infrastructure, thesis examination,goals and expectations, and overall satisfaction. Statistical Analysis Used: The data wereanalyzed on an SPSS software using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: The meanscore of satisfaction of the participants was 75 ± 12. On the basis of their scores, satisfactionin 3.2% of them was slow, in 33.9%was medium, in 61.3% was good and in 1.6% was high. Thehighest satisfaction was found to be in thesis supervision and the least was in the intellectualclimate domain.There was no significant statistical difference between satisfaction andgender (P = 0.46). Conclusions: Considering the results, to increase student satisfaction forpassing the thesis courses, it is necessary to improve the intellectual climate in dental schoolsand also increase the research budget for more financial support of students to carry out theirprojects.