Library use and academic achievement among medical students

Brazier, Hugh; Conroy, Ronán

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2923.1996.tb00732.x

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“…Jan et al conducted an interesting study about library anxiety, library use, and academic performance in Pakistan and found that students who visited the library frequently had less library anxiety and better academic performance [29]. Twenty years before, Brazier and Conroy analyzed the relationship between the number of books borrowed and examination marks in the premedical year and the fifth medical year of medical students in a medical school in Ireland, and they found that the patterns are totally different between these two years [30].…”

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Physical Fitness with Regular Lifestyle Is Positively Related to Academic Performance among Chinese Medical and Dental Students

Hou

Mei

Liu

et al. 2020

BioMed Research International

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Objective. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between physical fitness, lifestyle, and academic performance of Chinese college students and investigate the differences among medical and dental students on their lifestyle. Methods. This study was conducted with 316 students enrolled from 2012 to 2014 at Tongji University. Scores from the college physical test were used to represent the students’ physical fitness condition. Lifestyle was measured by some variables extracted from the students’ behavior data provided by the university’s information center. Academic performance was measured by the average score of basic courses and the average score of professional courses. Demographic information, including age, gender, nation, and family background, was also obtained. Separate multiple linear regression analysis was performed for modeling academic performance and physical fitness with a p value threshold of 0.05. Results. A total of 212 (45.97% females) medical students and 104 (58.65% females) dental students participated in this study. Physical fitness score (medical: r = 0.34, p<0.001; dental: r = 0.47, p<0.001), library visiting frequency (medical: r = 0.30, p<0.001; dental: r = 0.62, p<0.001), number of books borrowed (medical: r = 0.19, p<0.01; dental: r = 0.37, p<0.001), frequency of waking up early (medical: r = 0.29, p<0.001; dental: r = −0.30, p<0.01), and times of eating breakfast (medical: r = 0.49, p<0.001; dental: r = 0.47, p<0.001) were all significantly associated with academic performance. Library visiting frequency (medical: r = 0.26, p<0.001; dental: r = 0.41, p<0.001) and eating frequency (medical: r = 0.48, p<0.001; dental: r = 0.42, p<0.001) were also closely related with physical fitness. Conclusion. Physical fitness, library usage, and the regularity of lifestyle are significant contributors to academic performance among Chinese medical and dental students. Moreover, medical students are shown to have less rest time compared to dental students.

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Physical Fitness with Regular Lifestyle Is Positively Related to Academic Performance among Chinese Medical and Dental Students

Hou

Mei

Liu

et al. 2020

BioMed Research International

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“…Brazier and Conroy (1996) aimed to explore the relationship between library usage and the performance of undergraduate medical students.…”

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The relationship between academic library usage and educational performance in Kuwait

Alharbi

Middleton²

2011

Library Management

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PurposeThis study aims to examine perceptions of university library usage to consider factors that influence educational achievement of academic library users.Design/methodology/approachThe study uses validated questionnaires from 792 students, 143 academics and 121 administrators to measure five library factors. Three university libraries, which are based in Kuwait, were included in the questionnaire data.FindingsThe study found that only a minority of library users' educational achievement improves through library usage. The findings were lower than expected prior to completing the study.Research limitations/implicationsA limitation of the study is that it did not include library staff as participants during questionnaires and interviews.Originality/valueThe study adds to the current literature of research based in Kuwait, and is one of the first studies to use private university libraries for quantitative study purposes. This study introduces an entirely new academic library evaluation tool called the Factors of Academics Library Usage (FALU).

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“…Medical libraries may influence academic achievement among medical students. One study demonstrated that medical students in their first year of study who borrowed the most books also performed best in their examinations at the end of the year [7].…”

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confidence: 99%