[Effect of students' work on their educational output]

ABSTRACT

University students are among the most talent members of a society who make the future. Nowadays, university students as man power and spritual resources of a nation in addition to studying, have to work part time or fullime due to different reasons. Recent researches show that part time or full time work can bring about better results among the students. Meanwhile, some may make an educational drop. This study has been carried out firstly, to assess the role of part time and full time work on students' average and secondly to investigated other possible factors. This is a descriptive analytic cross sectional study in which the whole research population was chosen as the subjects. The main group included 200 male and female students from 7 schools of Isfahan Medical University all having the including criteria. There were another 200 students as controls not working selected from the same school. The average before students' work was considered as the basic average and the present simester average of the students as the present average. The subjects were classified with their average rank in three groups of 12-14. 99, 15-16. 99 and over 17 in study and control group. The findings showed that mean average differences in study and control groups had no significant difference and part time and full time students' work played no role in students' educational out put. Students' are responsible for providing public health in different groups of medical sciences as a part of health and treatment ministry. Since based on this research, students' work played no role in their educational out put except for the students with average >/= 17, the programs for students' counseling and reinforcing their motivation toward promotion of education quality are highly suggested.