MED NORD - A tool for measuring medical students' well-being and study orientations

Medical Teacher

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 72-79

  Lonka, Kirsti ^a,b   Sharafi, Parvaneh ^a   Karlgren, Klas ^a   Masiello, Italo ^a   Nieminen, Juha ^b   Birgegård, Gunnar ^c   Josephson, Anna ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL THEORY; EPISTEMOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION IN NORDIC COUNTRIES; MOTIVATION; ORIENTATION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SELF CONCEPT; STRESS; STUDENT ATTITUDE; VALIDITY; VARIMAX ROTATION; WELLBEING;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MOTIVATION; PILOT PROJECTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; SWEDEN;

EID: 39449134790     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01421590701769555     Document Type: Article

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