The investigation of relationship between behavioral and decisional procrastination with personality characteristics among students of Tehran Universities

Introduction: The present study was carried out with the aim to investigate the relationship between behavioral and decisional procrastination with personality characteristic among students of Tehran Universities.  Methods: the number of samples in this research includes 400 students (114 female and 286 male) from Tehran universities that selected using random cluster-multistage sampling and completed behavioral, decisional procrastination and five factor personality questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, independent t-test and Pearson correlation.  Results: Data indicated that the most prevalence of behavioral and decisional procrastination was between Shahid Beheshti and Tabatabaie universities respectively. On the other hand, procrastination was related positively to neuroticism and negatively to consciousness, extraversion and agreeableness. Also, there were no relationship between procrastination and openness.  Conclusion: Considering the positive relationship between procrastination and neuroticism and negative relationship with consciousness, extroversion and agreeableness, attention to personality characteristics can reduce procrastination and in turn, improve engagement in educational activities. Declaration of Interest: None.

The change in attitude and knowledge of health care personnel and general population following trainings provided during integration of mental health in Primary Health Care in Iran: a systematic review

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Mental health has been integrated in the primary health care program in small cities and villages of Iran in a national level since the late 1980s. We performed a systematic review of literature to investigate the effect of education on change in attitude and knowledge of mental health care providers and the population covered in the program during the recent two decades in Iran.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Electronic bibliographic databases including Pubmed, PsycINFO and EMBase as well as the main Iranian databases (Scientific Information Database, IranMedex, IranPsych, and IranDoc) were searched. Additionally, hand searching, personal contacts and tracking of reference lists were performed. All of the studies which compared the attitude and knowledge of the related population before and after an educational intervention were recruited.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Six articles met the inclusion criteria and entered the review. All of these studies showed an improvement in the attitude and knowledge of the studied population. Although the studies were different in many respects, a meta-analysis on the two more similar studies showed a significant effect of training on long term improvement of the knowledge and attitude of the population.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>A short term training improved knowledge and attitude of the population and health personnel immediately after the intervention. There is also evidence for a long term change in the attitude and knowledge of general population after short term training.</p