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The aim of the paper is to test the validity and highlight the psychometric properties of a scale  about  the  academic  worries  of  students   in  the  pandemic  context  (Pandemic Academic  Worries  among  University  Students  scale  -  PAWAUS scale), following  a quantitative   research  study  consisting  of  a  self-administered  questionnaire  within  a university   in   north-eastern    Romania   in   May   2021.  The   sample   comprised   282 undergraduate   and  master  students   in  the  Social  Work  field.  The  factor  analysis performed shows an initial validity of the PAWAUS scale. Generally, the findings of this study indicate that the students adapted rapidly and (relatively) fluidly to the new context but reported worries related to their academic and professional path. The premise from which we started  was the following: the Social Work students  follow, in the pandemic context, a speciality where the combination of theoretical knowledge with practical skills even from the undergraduate  period is essential, which may contribute to the formation of their professional identity. The second objective of the paper consisted of analysing the emotional  impact of the  pandemic  among  the  Social Work  students  using  a recently- developed  tool  –  PEIS (Ballou  et  al.,  2020). Through   the  specific  analysis  of  the relationship  between  the  two scales, we have identified that  the  worries  of the Social Work  students  are influenced  significantly  by the  emotional  impact generated  by the Covid-19 pandemic.

In the context of global social and economic changes caused by Covid-19 pandemic, our study wishes to bring to light the main transformations within the training process of the future specialists in the medical and social field in the context of Romanian online education. This study focused on the analysis of 211 questionnaires applied to final-year university Bachelor’s degree and Master students at the Social Work speciality and medical speciality (Physical therapy and Rehabilitation) recruited from two public universities of the north-east part of Romania. The comparative study analysed the opinions expressed by the university students regarding the training of skills and competences, the involvement in practicum and volunteering activities during the emergency period, the intention to migrate towards another profession or another geographical area. Through this study, we outline a diagnosis regarding the impact of the state of emergency on the academic training process of final-year university students. The purpose of the study is to highlight the progress of the educational process (framework, accumulation of skills and theoretical and practical knowledge, educational and professional concerns and adapting strategies) in the context of the pandemic, among students within the two specialities in their final academic year. This a crucial year for the transition towards a professional career in the healthcare fields chosen. Our results allow us to formulate the conclusion that a high degree of concern regarding the perspectives of finding a job is accompanied by a high propensity towards working abroad after finishing the studies.

Management of chronic illness implies significant changing the lifestyle, taking medication, watching the diet, introducing and maintaining exercise in daily life, etc. These actions represent elements of adherence to treatment and they reflect the responsibility of patient's participation to healthcare. The increase in adherence to treatment and in the quality of care, implicitly, may depend on allotting the resources necessary within therapeutic effort and on the effectiveness of the partnership between patient and doctor. Assuming the medical decision as a team may lead to solving the issue of non-adherence (Armstrong, 2014). Whereas the values of the functional parameters of the body represent an objective measurement of treatment efficiency and to some extent of adherence to it, implicitly, assessing the patient's lifestyle involves understanding his experience, which is governed by subjectivity. This article has the following objectives: (1) to analyze the definitions of adherence to treatment from a biomedical perspective and from the perspective of Chronic Care Model (CCM); (2) to identify the characteristics specific to the roles of acting participants to healthcare and to analyze the modifications of roles by the choice of theoretical model and (3) to identify the determining factors of adherence to treatment.