This study investigated Taiwanese student-athletes’ social relationship attitudes toward heterosexual, gay, and lesbian peers in Taiwan. Participants were 192 male and 156 female heterosexual student-athletes from a sports university in Taiwan. The Social Relationship Attitudes t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/26239
Background: Community Medicine is the study of health and disease in a population of a defined community. Insights into the attitude of clinical medical students towards Community Medicine specialty can help in planning a balanced workforce for better healthcare delivery. Objecti...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/27112
Aim: To determine students’ knowledge in greening, sustainable development and the readiness to embrace environmental education as part of the curricular in the different programs offered at the University of Cape Coast-Ghana as a way of preparing them well for future work. Study...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/25158
Environmental degradation and destruction and the disappearance of natural habitats can create many problems. Education, with the objective of achieving a comprehensive development of the individual, plays an important role, without forgetting those values which result from the i...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/26527
Introduction: Health literacy is defined as the ability to access, understand, evaluate and communicate information as a way to promote, maintain and improve health in a variety of settings across the whole duration of the person’s life. Effective health literacy begins in early...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/25737
Aims: This study was to scrutinize the correlation between stress and depression, religious factors, school factors and early victimization as the determinants of early initiation. Study Design: Quantitative research using a questionnaire as an instrument to collect the data. Pla...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/26022
This paper examines ‘wait for your time concept in management practice in the Nigerian terrain’. Theories are systematic groupings of interdependent concepts and principles which give a framework to or tie together a significant area of knowledge and they enable us to communicate...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/26082
Studies show that social rituals, norms, and values shape perspectives on sexuality in many heteronormative societies. However, a handful of studies have explored the underlying factors and reasoning behind this assertion. Leaning on the theory of social integration, this study q...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/24080
Introduction: The main objective of this study was to understand the impact of caffeine on adolescents’ health and health related behaviours, namely sleep duration and health related quality of life. Methods: Students in the 6th, 8th and 10th grades were chosen randomly from clus...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/23894
Aim: To examine family planning awareness and usage among women in Esan North East Local Government Area of Edo State and its implication for family life education. Study Design: The study adopted descriptive design. Methodology: A total of 200 women took part in the study and th...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/25776
Aims: This paper aims to examine the relationship between a training program designed for students with learning disabilities and their perceived competence. The research investigates the strong need for detecting the obstacles hindering Jordanian students, especially those at th...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/24328
The Social Work Program in Qatar University is one of three programs, together with the Sociology and Psychology programs, in the Department of Social Sciences, which is part of the College of Arts and Sciences. Due to the lack of evidence on the current program efficiency, quali...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/25335
This article selects the city of Hangzhou as a sample to explore how the China’s municipal government established its diplomatic image through discourse features in government English work reports. The research extracts the six years’ government’s English work reports from Hangzh...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/26418
Social work is a dynamic profession, which endeavors to adapt and interact with the surrounding societal circumstances and contemporary challenges. This article will focus on some contemporary trends in social work education and practices in Egypt, such as: authentication, commun...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/25882
This study compared Harm-Reduction Therapy (HRT) only with HRT and Motivational Interviewing (MI) as brief therapeutic techniques in controlling Alcohol-Related Problems (ARPs). It was hypothesized that there will be significant reduction in the occurrence of ARPs at each interva...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/26086