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ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Detection of the factors that influence environmental health students' attitudes could help us to set regulations, providing adequate facilities, training qualified and competent health workers and is effective to create a passionate environment in the College. The aim of this study was to evaluate the attitude of environmental health and occupational health students towards their education and career in Ardabil University of medical sciences.

METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, 100 students were selected among environmental health and occupational health students enrolled in the first semester of the 2014-15. The Data were collected by using the questionnaire of University of Minnesota containing 17 questions with Likert scale. The Data were analyzed by using SPSS-16 software.

FINDINGS: The mean score of attitude towards future career in environmental health and occupational hygiene students was 52.5±9.86 and 52.8±8.1, respectively. The mean score of attitude towards future career in studied students was higher than that of the acceptable score. Moreover, minimum and maximum scores of the attitude in environmental heath students were 26 and 71, respectively, and these values for occupational hygiene students were 41 and 70, respectively.

CONCLUSION: According to the results, students had a positive attitude towards their education and future career. Adjusted number of students accepted in the field of environmental health and occupational health, proper distribution of human resources, helping students to know more about academic disciplines before the entrance exam of universities and provide consultation and supporting them to clarify their education and job prospects can improve their attitudes.

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Background and Objective: Creating and developing self-directed learning skills has become one of the goals of education in recent decades, and today's students need to learn and acquire comprehensive information in this regard, or better to say, learn information and communication technology skills, to Be able to use electronic services. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between electronic citizenship knowledge and self-directed learning of students of University of Mazandaran and Babol University of medical sciences.  
Methods: This study is descriptive-analytical in terms of research method. The statistical population of the study consisted of two categories: Students of Mazandaran University in summer 1397, 11960 (in 13 colleges of this university) and Students of Babol University of Medical Sciences in summer 1397, 3410 (in 8 faculties the sampling method was a multi-stage comparative class. Using Krejcy-Morgan table, the sample size was 372 for Mazandaran University and 345 for Babol University of Medical Sciences. Chow test and Z-Fisher test were used to analyze the data. Standard questionnaires of electronic citizenship knowledge of Manson Choi et al. (2017) and self-directed learning of Darlene and Peder (2010) and SPSS statistical analysis software were used. Chow test and Z - Fisher test was used to analyze the data.
Findings: The students were selected from Mazandaran University and Babol University of Medical Sciences in different ages, genders and faculties. But no significant difference was observed between students of two universities in different classes (value F = 1.22).
Conclusion: The existence of a significant positive relationship between self-directed learning and e-citizenship knowledge shows the need to combine these two areas and provide a greater role for citizenship knowledge in students' self-directed learning.