Background: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a functional bowel syndrome with discomfort and changed bowel habits in the absence of obvious structural abnormalities. It is more common among adolescents and young age groups. Aim: Aims of the study is to identify the prevalence of Irritable Bowel Syndrome among medical students of AL- Kindy College of medicine, and to Exploring the effect on IBS prevalence of general demographic form to observe the association between anxiety and IBS. Data were collected on a sample of University of Baghdad, Al-Kindy College of Medicine students in Baghdad, Iraq. The study was conducted over a period for 6 months From December 2020 to June 2021. This study enrolled 250 students who were selected randomly for the purpose of the study, from different stages (1-5), of both genders, randomly collected. The results shown there was a significant correlation between IBS diagnosed patients and gender, and this led to the fact that females are more likely to have IBS since (79.04%) of ill females than males (20.9%). Also, there was a significant correlation regarding the food hypersensitivity (0.002), chronic problems (0.000), regular medication (0.009) and family history of IBS (0.000). Regarding relationship between stress levels and IBS, results showed a significant relationship between stress levels and IBS (p = 0.000), students who experience higher levels of stress and anxiety while studying are more exposed to IBS and concluding the IBS subtypes, the majority of the IBS diseased students 58(55.2%), have only abdominal pain and bloating or both. While students with constipation (IBS C) were more frequent 27 (25.7%) than students with diarrhoea (IBS D) 15 (14.2%) while only 5 (4.76%) had mixed diarrhea and constipation (IBS M). Conclusions: In conclusions the overall prevalence of IBS in this study was (42%) and prevalence of IBS was higher among females than among males. More than 60% of students had mild to moderate or high levels of anxiety.
Means of communication has a great impact on all fields of awareness including health awareness by increasing the knowledge of community about health and developing their abilities to improve human health and cultural awareness. According to the importance of health awareness for a community to develop their intellectual and physical integrity, the researcher has found that it is essential to know the role of means of communication as a source of information for many students being active and main segments to build their society intellectually, socially and economically.
The research has focused on the study of health awareness among students and their health knowledge derived from the means of communicat
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Infographics have the capability to organize and display information in a way that is easy for viewers to retrieve and make observations. While infographics have been successful in various fields, their potential benefits in composition writing have not been explored. The primary objective of this study is to investigate the perspectives of Iraqi EFL students who used infographics as an educational technology tool in composition writing, and to identify how gender influences students’ performance when using infographics in EFL writing classes. The significance of this study lies in its integration of infographics as an educational technology tool for teaching writing, aligning with the current trend of technology integration in ed
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Статья посвящена возможности использования в обучении русскому языку как иностранному лингвоориентированной методики для арабских студентов. Обосновывается термин «лингвоориентированная методика», предложенный В. Н. Вагнер, и на основе положений заявленной методики проводится сопоставление изучаемого (русского) языка с родным (арабским) языком обучающихся.